266 LentibMlariaceee* {Utricularia. 



Forests in the upper montane zone, parasitic on the roots of Strobi- 

 lanthes ; rather rare. Near the foot of Pedurutalagala ; near the summit 

 of Hakgala. Fl. August ; bright yellow. 



Also in the Nilgiri Mountains. 



The whole plant is a uniform pale lemon-yellow colour, but it dries 

 quite black. 



Sir J. Hooker in Fl. B. Ind. discards the genus Campbellia, and refers 

 this plant back to Christisonia, where Gardner had first placed it. 



Christisonia tinicolor, Gardn., was described entirely from a poor 

 drawing in the Peradeniya Herbarium, the original specimen being stated 

 to have been collected by Mr. Lear on Hunasgiriya in 1839. This 

 specimen does not exist, but the drawing represents a plant wholly bright 

 yellow with white exserted stamens, and is almost certainly meant to 

 represent CampbcUia. C. P. 1780, quoted doubtfully for this byThwaites, 

 consists of a single flower collected by Gardner on Hantane, and is 

 apparently C. bicolor. 



XCIV.-LENTIBULARIACE.^. 



Annual herbs, aquatic or terrestrial, 1. vvhorled and per- 

 sistent or alt. and disappearing before the flowering period, 

 usually bearing minute bladders at their bases ; flowering 

 stem (in the terrestrial forms) erect, with a few root-fibres at 

 the base and 2 or 3 small scales ; fl. bisexual, irregular, few, 

 in lax racemes, bracts small, cal. free, divided into 2 almost 

 distinct sep., often enlarged in fruit ; cor. 2-lipped, spurred at 

 base, upper lip entire or slightly bilobed, lower lip large, often 

 3-5-lobed ; stam, 2, inserted at base of cor., fil. broad, anth.- 

 cells confluent ; ov. superior, i -celled, with numerous ovules 

 on a free basal placenta, style very short, broad, stigma 

 dilated, bilobed ; fruit a 2- or 4-valved capsule ; seeds ovoid, 

 rarely flattened, without endosperm. 



Our 8 species are well distributed throughout the island ; one — 

 U. stellaris — is confined to the dry region ; two — U. cxoleta and U. reticu- 

 lata — to the moist low country ; and two — LI. affinis and U. orbiculata — 

 to the montane zone. There is no endemic species. 



UTRXCUX.AaiA, L. 



For characters, see Order. — Sp. 1 50 ; 22 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Aquatic ; stems submerged, 1. whorled, with capillary 

 segm., persistent. 

 Fl. on short ped. ; infl. with a whorl of spongy 



floats at base i. U. stellaris. 



