PLATE 2797. 
A, UTRICULARIA FIRMULA, Welw. 
LENTIBULARIACES, 
U. firmula, Welw. ex Oliv., in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. (1867), 
p. 152; Hiern in Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. iv. p. 788; Kam. in Engl. Bot. 
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372; ab affinibus inter species Africanas (U. linarioidi et U. Wel- 
witschit) corollis minutis totis luteis distincta. 
Herba annua, tenuis, terrestris, cum inflorescentia ad 8 ll. alta 
stolones capillares, magis minusve ramosi ; rhizoidea numerosa, fasci- 
orti, ovoidei, ore oblique angusto terminali, in margine superiore pilis 
brevibus rigidulis plerumque 4 ornato. Pedunculus filiformis, simplex 
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subsessile ; labium superum minutum, ovatum vel triangulare, inferum 
truncatum, latum. Capsula globosa, vix 1 lin. dimetiens. Semina 
globosa, levia, 4 lin. dimetientia, nitidula. 
TropicaL Arrica: Angola, Pungo Andongo, in damp woods near 
Sansamanda, Welwitsch, 262 ; Mossamedes, in a swam Y spring by the 
Chitanda River, 4,000 feet, Baum, 142. British Central Africa, on an 
island in the Zambesi, near the Victoria Fa s, Kirk ; Tanganyika 
plateau, Fort Hill, 3,000-4,000 feet, Whyte ; Uganda, in wet mud near 
Nandi, Scott Elliot, 7039 ; Zanzibar, Kirk. 
Kannienski, l.c., also refers to U. Jirmula, a plant collected by 
Afzelius in Sierra Leone ; but there is no specimen of his comparable. 
to it at the British Museum. 
Fig. 1, flowering specimen, branched state (Baum, 142); 2, flowering specimen, 
simple state (Welwitsch, 226); 3, rosette of leaves, stolons, and rhizoids at the base 
of a scape; 4, bladder bearing leaf; 5, bladder; 6, flower; 7, upper corolla lip; 
8, lower corolla lip; 9, stamens; 10, pistil, side view; 11, sced. Ail enlarged 
except 1 and 2, 
