PLATE 2798. 
UTRICULARIA PREHENSILIS, £. Meyer. 
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LENTIBULARIACE, 
U. prehensilis, #. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Afr. “sie i. 282 ; Stapf in 
Thiselton-Dyer, Flora Cap. iv. p. 432 ; inter species Africanas utriculis 
basistomis instructas corolla 6-8 lin, longa et labio supero sepalum 
superum multo superante distincta 
Herba gracilis, terrestris ; stolones filiformes, albidi, carnosuli, laxe 
intricati ; rhizoidea e pedunculorum basibus orta, breviter copiose ramu- 
losa, glanduloso-asperula. Folia secundum stolones sparsa vel pauca 
edunculorum basin, plerumque sub anthesi evanida; lamine 
Vv . 
steriles ; b sited lanceolate vel subulate, bracteas wquantes vel 
in. i. ala mem 
sum. Corolla lutea, 6-8 lin. longa; labium superum late oblongum, 
apice rotundatum vel emarginatum, 21-4 lin. longum, inferum 3-4 lin. 
longum late ovatum ; palatum labio supero subparallelum, 2-gibbosum, 
scendens, acutum, 3-44 lin. longum. Anthere 4 lin. longer. Stylus 
brevis ; stigmatis —— superum brevissimum, inferum bkshraersniar 
Capsula e ——S 7 23 lin. longa, Semina oblique ovoidea, dors 
tuberculata, 4-} lin. longa.—U. madagascariensis rodr, viii. 
p. 20; U. hians, A. DC. Le .p. 25; U. lingulata, Baker, in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xx. p. 216 
Tropica Arrica: Angola, Huilla, Humpata plateau in marshy 
woods, Welwitsch, 261; Amboella, i in swamps by t oh Kuebe and Longa 
Ri ivers, Baum, 303, ,a3; Nyassaland, Ubena, Liangiro — 
Goetze, 799 ; lower plateau, north of Lake vate. Thomson. Sour 
