Gardneriane. N. O. Utriculariex. 
TABS. DV—DVI. 
UTRICULARIA NELUMBIFOLIA. Gardn. 
Caule horizontali radicante, feliis magnis longe petiolatis sub- 
concavis reticulato-venosis, scapo multifloro, corolla amplis- 
sima, labio inferiore obscure trilobo, calcare descendente 
conico incurvo acuto labio inferiore subzequali. 
Utricularia nelumbifolia. Gardn. Herb. Bras. n. 5839. 
Has. In the water which collects within the leaves of a large 
species of Tillandsia, growing abundantly on an arid rocky 
part of the Organ Mountains, at an elevation of about 5000 
feet above the level of the sea. March 1841. 
Caulis demersus, horizontalis, crassitie circiter penne corvine, 
radicans, sarmentosus. Radices fibrillosee, vesiculiferee ; vesi- 
culis pedicellatis, majusculis, subrotundis, margine inferiore 
pilis 2 gerentibus. Folia solitaria, erecta, longe petiolata, 
rotundata, peltata, subconcava, eleganter venoso-reticulata, 
diametro 3-3} pollicaria. Petioli 10-14-pollicares longi, basi. 
Sarmentacei. Scapus 2~-21-pedalis, bisquamosus, squamis 2 
valde distantibus, circiter 2-3 lin. longis, angustis, lanceolatis, 
acutis. Racemus terminalis, simplex, 4-8 poll. longus, 
floribus 6-9 subsecundis remotis, bracteatis. Bractea cau- 
lina ad basin cujusvis pedicelli, profunde 3-partita; di- 
visuris ineequalibus, nervosis, intermedia circiter 3-lin. 
l Pedicelli 10-12-lin. longi, nudi. Calyx 2-phyllus, 
circiter sesquipollicaris, violacea; labium superius obtusum, 
Integrum ; inferius obscure trilobum: calear labium inferius 
subeequans, descendens, co apice sursum 
nicum, acutum 
curvatum. Stylus brevis, apice infundibuliformis, Ovarium 
