■Utricularia:\ LentibiilariacecE. 269 



Wet places from 2000-6000 ft.; common. Fl. Jan.-March and 

 August ; pale purplish-blue, spur violet. 



Also in the hills of S. India. 



The matted stems and numerous erect leaves form dense masses, and 

 sometimes persist to the flowering period, but usually die away before. 



5. TT. affinis, Wight, Ic. iv. pt. 4, 11 (1850). 



U. ccerulea, var. /3, Thw. Enum. 171. C. P. 3308. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 330 (not given for Ceylon). Wight, Ic. t. 1580, f. i, and 

 1578, f. I {U. brachypodd). 



Stems and 1. very evanescent, 1. oblong-linear, obtuse, 

 bearing bladders ; flowering stem 2-5 in., simple, very slender, 

 with 2 or 3 minute distant bracts ; fl. on rather short ped., at 

 first erect, afterwards nodding, distant, 2-4 in a very lax 

 raceme ; sep. ovate, acute, enlarged in fruit ; lower lip of cor. 

 \ in. diam., spur slender, straight, pointed, at right angles with 

 ■fl. ; capsule ovoid, enclosed in enlarged sep.; seeds sub- 

 globose, reticulate. 



Wet places in upper montane zone; rare. Horton Plains. Fl. Feb.; 

 purplish-blue. 



Also in S. India. 



Thwaites considered this merely as a variety of U. cccridea. 



6. XT. reticulata, Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 119 (1805). Nil-monar- 

 essa, S. 



Thw. Enum. 171. C. P. 2090 (2091). 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 331. Wight, 111. t. 143, and Ic. t. 1574, right-hand fig. 

 {^U. uliginosd). 



Stems filiform, 1. numerous, |-f in., erect, linear, with 

 numerous bladders, disappearing before flowering ; flowering 

 stem tall, 9-18 in., slender, weak, flexuose and twining, with 2 

 or 3 distant bracts ; fl. large, on erect ped., distant, 4-6 in 

 raceme ; sep. oval, acute, tapering at base and decurrent on 

 ped., much enlarged in fruit ; lower lip of cor. about \ in. 

 diam., orbicular, entire, bullate with conspicuous reticulare 

 venation in centre, spur nearly straight, sharp, shorter than 

 lower lip ; capsule flask-shaped ; seeds reticulate. 



Var. stricticaulis, Koenig ex Oliver iti Journ, Linn. Soc. iii. 180. 

 C. P. 2088. Wight, Ic. t. 1574, left-hand figs. (U. uliginosa). 



Flowering stem shorter, 3-6 in., stouter ; fl. on shorter 

 ped., more numerous and more closely placed. 



Wet places in the moist low country below 1000 ft.; rather common. 

 Galle ; Colombo ; Ratnapura ; Pasdun Korale. Var. /3 in the dry districts 

 — Jaffna; Batticaloa; Haragama. Fl. Dec-April, and July ; purple-blue, 

 the lip white, reticulated with darker veins. 



This is the most beautiful of our species ; the flowers are large and of 

 various shades. The slender stems in the type twine round one another 

 and neighbouring vegetation for a foot or two in height, and thus show 

 their flowers well. 



