1. Utricularia.] 100. LENTIBULARIACE^, 



flower. Flowers on •25-*3" long pedicels, very jDretty, blue and some- 

 times 8" long, at other times much smaller, with narrowly conic nearly 

 straight spur. Sepals in fruit •25-*3" elliptic acute veined decurrent 

 on the pedicel. 



Orissa, Cat. Herb. ! Singblium ! Fl., Fr. Aug.-Sept, 



Lower lip of corolla broadly ovate, scarcely emarginate. Seeds obovoid scrobicu- 

 late {Clarice). Bracteoles 2, filiform. 



7. U. scandens, Benj. 



A very small glabrous twiner with small pale lilac or blue flowers 

 •15" scattered along the upper three-fourths of the slender filiform 

 stem. Pedicels -oe-'l" deflexed in fruit. Calyx lobes ovate obtuse 

 •1-*12" in fruit. Seeds yellow obovoid, very faintly striate (laxly 

 scrobiculate, Clarke). 

 N. Bengal, Eurzl Rice-fields, Singbhum ! Fl., Fr. Sept.-Oct. 



8. U. bifida, L. 



Slender glabrous 3-7" erect, " or will twine round a grass," Clarice. 

 Flowers yellow or yellow with brown-yellow spur. Fruiting sepals 

 •2--25" usually rounded at the tip, very decurrent on the cernuous 

 •l-'2"long pedicel. Bract oblong, bracteoles filiform. 



Singblium (rather dovibtful ; the sepals are cuspidate) ! Sambalpur, Griff. ! 

 Hazaribagh, ClarJce ! Fl., Fr. Sept.-Oct. 



Before flowering it has, like several other species of the section, numerous erect 

 linear leaves 'e-'?" long on the filiform creeping stems. 



9. U. Wallichiana, Wight. 



Very slender and twining or reduced to a short erect filiform stem 

 1-2" high with only 1-few flowers. Flowers •2-"4" clear-yellow with 

 nearly straight tapering pointed spur about as long as or longer than 

 the lower lip. Pedicels 0-"25" erect or suberect in fruit and fruiting 

 sepals "2" ovate, very acute or cuspidate, somewhat decurrent on 

 pedicel. 



Manbhum, Camphell ! Wet ground alongside streams and on their banks, 

 Neterhat, 3000 ft. ! 



Usually growing with minute sedges and often slightly twining on them. Bracts 

 ovate acute, bracteoles filiform. Spur usually lying parallel to lower sepal and 

 exceeding it and divaricate in a straight line with the upper obovate lip, lower lip 

 broad, emarginate. Capsule lenticular. 



FAM. 101. GESNERACE^. 



Undershrubs or more usually herbs, sometimes reduced to a single 

 leaf and inflorescence. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple, exstipu- 

 late. Flo AVer s often showy and large but sometimes much reduced, 

 usually racemose, rarely cymose or clustered or solitary, bracteate and 

 Avith xTsually small bracteoles, 2-sexual, more or less zygomorphic. 

 Calyx 5-merous, sepals valvate or open in bud. Corolla Avith long or 

 short tube and usually 5 imbricate lobes. Stamens on the tube, visually 

 didynamous, often only 2 fertile, rarely 5 fertile, anthers 2-celled 

 or cells confluent. Disc annular or unilateral or 0. Ovary superior or 



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