Utricularia 899 
long, filiform and obliquely erect during flowering, then gradually 
recurving, at last up to 6 cm long and more or less widened below 
the calyx. Sepals subequal, ovate-orbicular or orbicular, subobtuse 
to rounded, 2—2'/, mm long. Corolla yellow, 5—5'/, mm long; 
upper lip rotundate-ovate, up to 21/, mm long; lower lip subquadrate 
up to over 5mm long; palate very large and gibbous; spur sub- 
cylindric, obtuse, adpressed to the lower lip, up to 5 mm long. 
Anthers patelliform when open, 0,2 mm in diam., cells confluent; 
filaments filiform, narrowly winged, 0,3 mm long. Ovary globose; 
style distinct, short; lower stigmatic lips truncate-rotundate, upper 
lip 0. Capsule globose, 5—5'/, mm in diam. Seeds box-shaped, 
4—5-angular, 0,2—0,5 mm across, 0,1—0,3 mm high, all the angles 
more or less narrowly winged, top-face finely reticulate. Hmbryo 
not differentiated. — Flow. February to March. 
N. d. Alexandria; Rosetta; Damanhur; Zaqaziq; Tewfikiye near 
Kafr Zayat; Qalytb in ditches. 
Local name: hamil. 
Also known from Tropieal and South Africa, Madagascar, India and 
Australia. 
1250. (3.) Utricularia exoleta R. Br. Prodrom. Flor. Nov. 
Holland. (1810), p.430. — DC. Prodrom. VIII, p.7. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 102 no. 672. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’EKg., p. 252. — Aschers. in Bericht. d. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. IV, p. 404. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or., Supplem., p. 339. — Kamiensky in Hngler’s Bot. 
Jahrb. XXXII, p.112. -— Utricularia diantha Roem. and Schult. 
Syst. Veg. Mant. I, p.169. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.4. — Wight 
Icon. Plant. Or., tab. 1569. — Utricularia ambigua DC. Prodrom. VIII, 
p. 7. — An aquatic herb, floating in water or creeping on liquid 
mud. Stolons of varying length, much branched; branches often 
fascicled, from a few inches to almost 50 cm long, very slender, © 
flat, green and leafy or bleached and almost naked. Leaves varying 
considerably in the degree of development, rarely more than 5 mm 
long, very sparingly dissected, usually one or several of the segments 
represented by bladders, or the whole leaf replaced by a bladder, 
normal segments delicately capillary, glabrous. Bladders obliquely 
globose-ovoid, rarely more than 1 mm long, mouth subapical, 
truncate with delicate branched cilia. Raceme 3—2-flowered or 
reduced to a single flower; peduncle slender, filiform, straight or 
flexuous, 5—6 cm long, rarely longer; bracts membranous, broad- 
obovate, truncate or rounded, 1 mm long, lowest 1 or 2 often barren; 
bracteoles 0; pedicels finely filiform, permanently obliquely erect, 
of very unequal length, the longest up to 9 mm long. Sepals 
equal, orbicular-elliptic, up to 2 mm long, membranous, scarcely 
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