100. LENTIBULARIACE^. [1. Utricularia. 



1. 0. aegyptiaca, Pers. Syn. O. indica, Ham. ; Turi-sim, S. ; Sarson- 



banda, H. 

 A brownish parasitic herb with one to many puberulous or usually 

 pubescent scapes 6-10" high from a thickened base. Inflorescence 

 usually dense with ovate acuminate pubescent bracts •2-" 3" long, 

 subulate filiform bracteoles -25" long and bhie flowers -7-1" long, with 

 the campanulate calyx finally split behind and regularly 4-5-lobed, 

 the lobes finely acuminate. 



Frequent in mustard and tobacco fields in most districts ! Behar, J.D.H., in corn 

 and Carthamus&eldsl Gaya, Clarkel Hazaribagli, Gamble I Fl., Fr. c.s.-Feb. 



Stems usually much branched and pubescent, with few ovate or lanceolate bracts 

 below the inflorescence, which usually occupies over half their total length. Calyx 

 often 5-merous, "S-'So" long, lobes as long as the tube with setaceous tips. Corolla 

 pubescent or puberulous. Anthers minutely spurred, unequally woolly. Capsule 

 oblong, "2" long. 



2. 0. cernua, Loeffl,. 



A much stouter and also dwarfer plant than 0. indica, with stems 

 sometimes 5" diam. puberulous or glabrate Avith conspicuous lanceo- 

 late bracts ■4-Q" long below the inflorescence. Inflorescence dense 

 or lower flowers sub-solitary with lanceolate acuminate pubescent 

 bracts similar to those on the stem, bracteoles 0. Calyx split to base 

 behind and nearly to base in front into two 2 -fid segments, but some- 

 times one segment entire and lobes of the segments often imequal, 

 always finely acuminate and usvially coloured blue. Corolla blue, 

 •5-*8" long, with very short orbicular or ovate lobes, glabrous. 



On tobacco, not common. Patna, Wall. ! 



My specimens are from the Central Provinces. Fl. Sept.-Oct- 



Stems or scapes simple, 6-10", the inflorescence occupying half or more of their 

 entire length. Calyx puberulous and with few gland-tipped hairs, '-i" long. 

 Anthers glabrous minutely spurred, filaments sometimes thinly hairy at base. 

 Capsule ellipsoid, ••4" long. ' 



I had noted that O. cernua closely approached O. nicotiancE in the Central Pro- 

 vinces. Dr. Beck in his monograph in Bihliotheca Bot. unites the two and includes 

 them both under var. desertomm of O. cernua. 



FAM. 100. LENTIBULARIACE^. 



Small herbs, sometimes climbing, inhabiting water or wet places, 

 with leaves either simple entire radical and rosulate or capillary 

 multifid, or nearly or quite obsolete. Flowers small to mod.-sized, 

 irregular on 1-many-fld. scapes, bracts small or 0. Calyx inferior 

 2-5-lobed. Corolla 2 -lipped and spurred, upper lip entire or 

 emarginate, lower iisually larger entire or 3-6-lobed. Stamens 2 

 attached to the base of the corolla, alternate with the lobes of the 

 lower lip, filaments broad curved ; anther cells 2, ovate, transversely 

 confiuent. Ovary superioi-, globose, 1-celled; style short, stigma 

 unequally 2-lobed. Ovules very many on a free basal placenta. 

 Fruit a 2-4-valved capsule or irregularly breaking up. Seeds many, 

 small, exalbuminoiis. 



1. UTRICULARIA, L. Bladderwort. 

 Herbs growing on wet rocks or banks, in which case the leaves are 

 entire or sometimes evanescent, and the plant is then reduced to a 

 few small roots and a scape, or growing in still or running water 



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