3l'0 xcri. lentibulakiace.t:. 



lower lip i in. long, broadly ovate or suborbicular, with soaiewliat 

 crenulate margins ; spur stout, conic, subacute, exceeding the lower lip. 

 Capsules globose, -jig^ in. in diam. Seeds minute, scrobiculate. Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1582; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 3 (1859) p. 186; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 135 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 270. UtricuJaria racemosa, Wall. 

 Cat. (1828) 1496 ; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 3 (1859) p. 186; C. B. 

 Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 333. U. JtUcauUs, Wall. Cat. 

 (1828) 1501 ; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c. 



KoNKAN: Stocks I; Yingorla, Dahell (^^ Gibson. S. M. Country : Belgaiiin, /?/;'c//?e, 

 1968! — DisTRiB. India (Aipal, Khasia mountains, Cliota Nagpur, W. Peninsula) 

 Ceylon, Malaja, China, Borneo. 



10. Utricularia striatula, Swi. iuRees, Cyclop, v. 37 (1819) n. 17. 

 A small slender herb often growing on wet rocks; stolons filiform, 

 creeping, bearing leaves and bladders. Leaves scattered along the 

 stolons, usually in small rosettes at the base of the scapes, rarely more 

 than g in. in diam., orbicular or reniform, petiolate ; petioles §-■ ^ in. 

 long. Bladders only from the stolons, obliquely ovoid, -^ in. long, the 

 mouth with 2 fimbriate oblong antennse. Scapes filiform, 1-6 in. long, 

 with or without scales, few- to 10-flowered ; bracts about ^^ in. long 

 and like the scales attached much below the middle ; bracteoles 2, 

 oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the bracts ; pedicels capillary, 4^-\ in. 

 long, distant, spreading. Sepals very unequal, more or less orbicular ; 

 the upper at length up to g in. long and adnate to the capsule; the 

 lower ^ in. long, reflexed. Corolla large for the size of the plant, 

 violet, whh. a yellow spot at the base of the lower lip ; upper lip yL in. 

 long, suborbicular, eraarginate, rather broader than long ; lower lip 

 \ in. long, rather broader than long, 5-toothed or -lobed ; spur i in. 

 long, subulate, deflexed. Stigma subsessjle. Capsules subglobose. 

 Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, minute, elegantly glochidiate. Utricularia orhi- 

 culata, Wall. Cat. (1828) 1500 ; Oliv. in ^Tourn. Linn. Soc. v. 3 (1859) 

 p. 187 ; Dak. & Gibs. p. 136 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 334 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 176. U. glo- 

 cJiidiafa, Wight, Icon. t. 1581. — Flowers: Sept. 



KoNKAN : Law !, Stocks ! ; abundant on the wet rocks in the Railway-cuttings on 

 the Blior Ghat (G. I. P. R.) in September, Cookel Deccan : Panchgnni Ghat on 

 wet rocks, Cookel, Woodrowl; Lanoli, Woodrow ; Kliandala, Woodrow. — Distrib. 

 More or less thronghout India in the bills ; Ceylon ; Maiaya, S. China, Tropical 

 Africa. 



Order XCIIL GESNERIACE^. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, alternate, or solitary, entire 

 or toothed ; stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, usually irregular, on 

 axillary or terminal peduncles, cymose, rarely 1-flowered; bracts small 

 or large ; bracteoles usually small. Calyx-segments 5, valvate or open 

 (very rarely imbricate). Corolla gamopetalous, tubular ; lobes usually 

 5, imbricate in bud. Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, usually 

 didynamous, sometimes 5 fertile, often only 2 fertile ; anthers 2- or 

 often by early confluence 1-ceIled, usually conniving or connate in pairs, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Disk annular or shortly cylindric (sometimes 



