898 Lentibulariaceae. 
calyx. Sepals suborbicular-ovate or orbicular, obtuse, upper almost 
5 mm, lower almost 2'/, mm long, much enlarged in the fruit, up 
to 10 mm in diam, Corolla yellow or white with purple veins 
6—61/, mm long; upper lip broad-ovate, 5 mm long, obtuse, entire; 
lower lip rotundate-subquadrate, 5'/, mm long; palate very large. 
and gibbous; spur cylindric, obtuse, adpressed to the lower lip, up 
to 5'/, mm long. Anthers patelliform when open, 1 mm long. 
Ovary globose; style distinct, but very short; upper lip obscure; 
lower large, rotundate. Capsule globose, 5—5'/, mm in diam., 
enveloped by the compressed enlarged calyx; seeds short, prismatic, 
4—5}-angular, up to 0,5 mm in diam. and almost as high, all the 
angles marginate. Kmbryo slightly concave on the top face. — 
Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Alexandria; Damanhur; Damietta; Mansura; Kafr Dowar; 
Tanta; Zaqaziq; Qalytib; Cairo, in irragation-canals and ditches. 
Local name: hamil. 
Also known from Nubia, Kordofan and Senegalia. 
1249, (2.) Utricularia stellaris L. fil. Syst, Supplem. (1781) 
p. 86. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.3. — Wight. Ic. Plant. Or., p.47 
tab, 27. — DC. Prodrom. VIII, p. 3. — Kamiensky in Engler’s Bot. 
Jahrb. XX XIII, p.107. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Hg., p. 132 
no.671. — A submerged, aquatic herb floating near the surface. 
Stems up to over 30 cm long, filiform to more than 1 mm in diam. 
Leaves heteromorphic, normal leaves from a few mm to more than 
1 cm apart, rarely subopposite, 4—6-partite, usually auricled; rays 
1—2'/, cm long, finely filiform to linear (up to more than 1 mm 
broad), auricles orbicular-cordate in outline, 2—5'/, mm in diam., 
fringed or deeply and repeatedly divided, fringes or segments finely 
subulate and rather rigid, rigidly ciliate with the cilia often 2—3-nate, 
or the segments in cases of extreme division running out into 
capillary flexuous tips resembling the ultimate segments of the 
typical leaf-pinnae; pinnae 5—9 mm long, usually fureate from or 
near the base, ultimate segments capillary, minutely setose, with or 
without bladders; bladders from the angles of the divisions, 1 or 2 
with each pinna, obliquely globose-ovoid, 1—2,5 mm in diam., mouth 
truncate, oblong, naked, almost closed by a flexible valve in the 
upper and the thickening of the rim in the lower part; floats in a 
false whorl of 4—6 (rarely fewer or more), usually 6—9 mm _ below 
the lowest flower, broad-ellipsoid to ovoid, 5’/,—9 mm long with 
some reduced short pinnae near the apex. Raceme few- to 12-flowered; 
peduncle 3—18 cm long, slender; bracts broadly-ovate, obtuse, 
2—3 mm long; bracteoles 0; pedicels 2—2'/, mm (rarely more) 
