81 G xcn. lentibulariace.t:. 



Spur imicli .-iliorler than the lower lip, nearly 



straight, conical 4. U. alho-ca'ndea. 



Spur about equalling the lower lip, falcately 



curved, linear-subulate 5. U. arcuafa. 



redicels not recurved in fruit. 



Spur straight ; lower sepal entire at the apex . 6. U. affinis. 

 Spur curved; lower sepal usually 2-toothed ... 7. U. carulea. 



Scapes twining 8. U. reticulata. 



Scales and bracts of the scape attached by the middle. 9. U. nivea. 

 Leaves orbicular or reniform, persistent; sepals very 



unequal; seeds glochidiate 10. U. airiatiila. 



1. Utricularia stellaris, Linn. f. Su2:>pl. (1781) p. 86. An 

 aquatic herb, the pedunt-les suspended in water by means of a whorl of 

 oblong vesicles about their middle ; stolons submerged, often very 

 slender, sometimes tiliform, not much branched. Leaves all submerged, 

 ^-Ig in. long, olten in whorls of 4, jniniately cut into numerous 

 capillary slender pectinate segments, each pinna usually provided near 

 the base with a small globular-ovoid bladder j^-yV in. in diam., with a 

 truncate mouth. Plowers in slender erect few-l^-Bouered racemes ; 

 peduncles 1-8 in. long ; tioats in whorls of 4-8 attached about g in. 

 below the lowest flower, broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, reticulately veined, 

 ^-^ in. long, with a tuft of reduced filiForm pinnae at the apex ; bracts 

 yL-yL in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse ; bracteoles ; pedicels yV~i ^"* 

 long, thickened, usually deflexed in fruit. Calyx 2-partite, yV-s i^- -^^"^ ' 

 sepals subequal, suborhicular, veined, enlarged in fruit. Corolla yellow, 

 4 in. across ; upper lip rotund-ovate, y'o-g in. long ; lower lip sub- 

 quadrate, ^ in. long; spur subcylindric, stout, blunt, appressed to the 

 lower lip, than which it is rather shorter. Cai)sules globose, ^ in. in 

 diam. (Seeds scarcely g^g in. in diam., discoid, prismatic in cross section, 

 4-6-angled, concavo-convex by the inflexion of the entire thin slightlv- 

 Avinged margin. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 3:^8 ; Grab. Cat. p. IG-o ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 135; Wight, Icon. t. 1567; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 3 (1859) 

 p. 174; Kamienski, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 4, 3 B, p. 112, 

 iig. 47, E ; Trim. FI. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 267 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 vri2 (1898) p. 175.— Flowers : Nov. 



KoNKAN : Stocks], Dalzell 4' Gibson; Malwan, Wuodrotc I S. M. Country: 

 Belgaum, Kakti tank, Ritchie, 11)65 ! — Distkib. Throughout India in rice-swamps and 

 tanks ; Ceylon, Malaya, S.E. Asia, Australia, Tropical and S. Africa. 



2. Utricularia flexuosa, Vahl, Emm. v. 1 (1805) p. 198. S'olons 

 floating in large masses a little below the surface, often very long, 

 rather stout, much-branched. Leaves l|-3 in. long, usually in whorls 

 of 4, piiniately divided into numerous filiform pectinate segments, each 

 pinna usually with a nearly globose bladder near its base. Flowers few, 

 in erect racemes ; peduncles long, sometimes reaching 9 in., naked or 

 with a few small scales, without a whorl of floats below the flowers, but the 

 vihorl of leaves at the base of the peduncles often with tlie rhachis 

 much inflated (acting as a float) and the segments very short; bracts 

 ovate, small ; pedicels 4-| in. long, at first erect, afterwards deflexed. 

 Calyx g--^ in. long; sei)als ovate-oblong, obtuse, veined, somewhat 

 enlarged in fruit. Corolla yellow, -^-.^ in. across; spur rather shorter 

 than the lower lip, conical, acute. Capsides ^ in. in diam., globose, 

 Leaked with the thick ])rrsist(Mit slyl(\ Seeds .^^ .}^ in. in diam., 



