PolypompJlolyxJ] LXXXIV. LENTIBULARIE^a:. 



long as the lower lip.-Hook. f. FL Tasm. i. 800; Utricularia kneUa.-R. 

 Br. Prod. 432 ; A. DC. Prod. viiL 16 ; Tetralobns pnsillus, A. DC. Irod. viu. 

 667; P. exlgua, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 50, in Hook. Kew 

 Jourii. viii. 203, and Lithogr. t. 61. 



_ Victoria. Near Melbourne, Adannon; mossy, peaty, or boggy places la the Gram- 

 pians, Serra and Victoria ranges, F. Mueller, 



'Pn— _•_ in_* T T_i J /^ 



Tasmania. Flinders Island, Gimn. 



_ — ^^ ' V 



S. Australia. Echunga, F. Mueller. .^ . _ , , iifnlrjn.- F 



W.Australia. King George's Sound, R.Brown; summit of Mount MehiUt, r. 



Mueller; Swan Kiver, Preiss, n. 1920 (not seen), Dricmmond, n, 85, Wi. 



M 



Okdee lxxxv. oeobanchace^. 



Mowers irreo-ular. Sepals 4 or 5, united in a variously split calyx, 

 n , , . '^ ', . 11 ,1 ^- ^KUniiP . tliR limb m 



i^lowers irreo-ular. Sepals 4 or 5, uiutea in a va.iuu=.j ci.... -V"-^"- 

 rolln tubular or campanulate, usually curved or oblique; the limb moie or 

 less 2-lipped ; the upper lip erect or spreading, en.argmate or 2-ioi ed ; ne 

 lower lip spreading S-Iobed. Stamens 4, in pairs, inserted ^^ /^^^ ^ !^f; 

 Anthers 2-eelled, tli^ cells usually but not always pointed «7"„"«''' X/f ^^^ 

 longitudinally. Ovary superior, 1-celled, with 2 (^^^ ^7:^^^ ^>Jthe ^ides 

 bifid placentas, or 4 cHstinit placentas, more or less protruding ftom the sides 



i^>to the cavity but not united in tlie axis. Ovules ^^^^^^''-^V^^ e^ vSved 

 merous. Style simple, with a capitate or 3-lobed stigma. Capsule 2 ^'^^f^^' 



Seeds small; with a minute embryo and '^^'""'^''^"^f ^^^-^/fen eed W 

 not green, parasites on roots. Stems usually thick, ^^^ leaves ephu^ed by 



alternate seLs or bracts of tlie colour of the rest of ^ ^^ P^"*" Jte^o r 

 solitary in the axils of the bracts, usually forming terminal spikes 



i'acemes. 



, A. Order .ot very numerous in species, but widely di^tribute^J-;- J-^^^^J^^J/S 

 globe, except the ext/eme north aud south, aud iKUch more abundant m thj^ "«' ^ 



in the southern hemisphere. The only Australiau genus is the pnncipal one t. 

 though almost limited to the northern hemisphere. 



1. OEOBANCHE, Linn. 



. Calyx divided to the base on the upper side, and often ^^° ^J jj^^^^^j;^^^ 

 Id. so as to ibrm 2 Me^al sepls, eith.. ei^ L^'^f Ihe lo^^ * an. 



swe, so as to form 2 lateral sepals, eitner entu. ^^ ^ ---, ^ ^ 



each other or more or less connected at the base ^^^^^j^^;;, ^.U 

 f nietimes connected also on the upper side by the ^"tm^^^^^^^^^^ ^f the 



fiftli lobe, and always pointed. Habit and other chaiacteis tlio=e 

 Oi'der. 



, The pnuclpal genus of the Order, abuudaut in the -^hcrn hemi^pbere^^^^ ^l^^Me 

 1«^ so in North Ameriea, nnd a very few of the E»ropeun sptues have PI 



southern hemisphere, aud amou-st them the only Australian one. 



. 1- O. cemua, Lfpfl 



Stems stout, erect, 



. i- O. cemua, Lr/^J.,- Rent, m V^- r'uu.^>. ""• colour more or 



f^Vh, from about' 6 in. to above 1 ft- high, of a pale ^'^^^^ '^H'l^,, ,„es 

 less tinged with blue and loosely pubescent ; the scales o^^^ ^^^.^^ ^^^^^^^ 



ovate, the upper ones acute or acuminate, f^^'f'^^^'-^,^ occupying about 

 pale or whitish towards the base, in a rather dense spike, occupy , 



