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Utricularia coerulea Linn,; KB, I. iv 331, 105, I 9; 

 Blue Bladderwort. 



Flowering stem 2 inches, with a few scales : basal 

 simple leaves evanescent : flowers few, sub-terminal. 

 Pedicel 1/5 inch, pinkish purple. Calyx lobes 2% inches ; 

 lower sometimes minutely toothed ; upper pinkish purple. 

 Upper lip of corolla obovate, 1/6 by 1/5 inch, finely 

 veined, blue, erect ; lower lip much arched in the middle, 

 blue at the sides, lighter but with purple veins in the 

 centre : spur J4 inch, slender, pointing nearly vertically 

 downwards, much the same colour as the upper lip. 

 Bladders on the submerged leaves 1/30 inch, dark purple, 

 t. 203. Wight Ic.tt. [573,1578. 



Common in marshy places, flowering May. Bourne 17, 



1718.* 



I have not been able to compare Nilgiri specimens with the Linnasan 

 one and cannot therefore be confident as to the name. But the following 

 manuscript note appears on one of the sheets at Kew : 



Utricularia coerulea Linn, in Herb. Linn., not of description, are : — 

 Wall. Cat. .495 ' U. humilis' Heyne ; Herb. Wight Ic, t. 1578 ' U. 

 pedicellata ' ; Thwaites 2086 * Ceylon.' 



Var ulignoides : — Wight Herb. Prop. 2713 i5, ' Pulney '; ' uligi- 

 nosa ' Wight. Ic. t. 1573. 



vor uliginosa : — Schmidt ' 1884' ; bladders up to one-sixteenth inch, 

 all parts broad. 



Utricularia wallichiana Wight ; F.B.I, iv 332, I 14 ; 

 Yellow Bladderwort. 



Flowering stem I to I^ inches, very slender, with a 



few small bracts, but no leaves at the flowering time. 



Pedicels % inch, erect. Calyx lips acute ; upper ^ inch ; 



lower i/io inch. Corolla yellow ; upper lip acute J^ inch ; 



lower notched at the end, corrugated, with a high arch in 



the middle and decurved sides. Fruit enclosed in the two, 



now nearly circular, calyx lips, 1/12 inch, flat with very 



thin walls. Seeds small sand-coloured, longitudinally 



wrinkled in irregular folds, t. 204- Wight Ic. t, 



1572, fig. I. 

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