788 xc. LENTiBULARiACE^. [Utriculciria 



always strictly erect although weak ; corolla deep purple : palate 

 yellow-velvety. In spongy places by streams throughout the Lopollo 

 country, appearing soon after the spring rains, at an elevation of 5000 

 to 5200 ft., plentiful ; fl. and fr. 26 to 30 Oct. 1859. Xo. 266. 



13. U. Welwitschii Oliv., I.e., p. 152. 



HuiLLA. — Scape constantly flexuous on the fruiting portion ; leaves 

 loosely rosulate, elongate-spathulate, rarely surviving on the plant in 

 flower ; calyx-lobes yellowish, margined with red, obtuse, somewhat 

 denticulate on the lower part ; corolla yellow ; both the upper and low 

 lips purplish ; the palate orange in colour ; the spur livid-purple, 

 conical, acute, bent forwards and upwards. In swampy pastures,. 

 tolerably plentiful about Lopollo, in company with various species of 

 Eriocaulna ; fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 263. 



14. U. firmula Welw. ex Oliv., I.e., p. 152. 



Puxcjo Andongo. — An annual herblet ; scape erect, simple or bifid,, 

 comparatively firm ; leaves radical, rosulate, obovate-spathulate ; upper 

 lip of the corolla yellowish, bilobed ; the lower lip orange-coloured ; 

 the palate deep orange-red ; anthers didymous-constricted. In a damp 

 wooded place among short grasses, near Sansamanda, on the right 

 bank of the river Cuanza, in company with Isoefes a^qu'moctkdis, rather 

 rare and seen only in one place ; fl. and fr. 1 May 1857. No. 262. 



This is not identical with U. WaJrtchiana Wight {y. firmula) ., Oliv., 

 Z.c, iii. p. 182 (1859). 



15. TJ. sanguinea Oliv., I.e., p. 153. 



HuiLLA. — Leaves spathulate, somewhat fleshy, brittle ; flowers very- 

 bright blood-red purple. In swampy pastures and also in damp fields 

 neglected after cultivation about Lopollo, at an elevation of about 

 5000 ft., very plentiful ; fl. and fr. from Feb. to April 1860. No. 259. 



16. U. exilis Oliv., I.e., p. 154. 



HuiLLA. — An annual herblet ; rhizome very tender, whitish, rooting; 

 leaves spathulate-lingulate, somewhat fleshy, arranged in a rosette at 

 the base of the scape or at each node of the rhizome ; scape 1 to 2 in. 

 high, 1- to 3-flowered, capillary, straight, dusky purple, simple or very 

 rarely with 1 or 2 branchlets ; calyx-segments broadly ovate-elliptical : 

 corolla sometimes quite white, sometimes more or less violet-purplish ; 

 the upper lip somewhat emarginate or shortly bifid, erect, yellowish, 

 the lower lip gibbous and yellowish in the disk, which is almost 

 quadrate and marked with 3 or 4 deep purple transverse lines on each 

 side, reflected and violet-purple or white on the circumference ; spur 

 horizontal, ascending at the apex, pale purple. In pastures flooded by 

 the spring and autumn rains at length drying up and somewhat spongy^ 

 on the Humpata plateau, at elevations of 4800 and 5000 feet, very 

 plentiful, in company with species of Xyris, Eriocaiilon larteum- Rendle 

 (Welw. Herb. 2452), Cyperace^e, and Isoefes ; fl. 21 March and fr. end 

 of March 18G0. No. 253. A weak, terrestrial herb ; leaves radical, 

 narrowly spathulate ; scape 1-or 2-flowered, 1 to 2 inches high, smooth^ 

 erect ; calyx-segments broad ; corolla white, the upper lip incumbent 

 on the margin of the reflected broadly obcordate lower lip ; spur 

 straight, conical, obtuse ; capsule globose, apiculate. In moist bushy 

 sandy flooded places on the point of drying up, between Lopollo and 

 the river Eme ; fl. and fr. middle of April 1860. No. 252. It alsfv 

 occurred about Lagoa de Quibinda on watery mud, in company with 

 Rotala iiiexkana subsp. Hkrnkma ; see ante^ p. 371. 



