PLATE 2629. 
GENLISEA GUIANENSIS, J. #. Brown. 
LENTIBULARIACE®. 
G. guianensis, V. #. Brown (sp. nov.) ; affinis G. africane, Oliv., 
sed foliis lanceolatis et floribus majoribu differt 
olla 
violacea, 6-64 lin. longa ; labium superius 2} lin ongum, erectum, 
ar age obtusissimum, leviter emarginatum, margine reflexum ; 
labium inferius 3-34 lin. longum, deflexum taloast incumbens, 
trilobum, lobis oblongis obtusis, palato minute puberulo _— oe 
5 lin. longum, crassum, conicum, obtusum, glabrum. Ca 2 lin. 
diam., globosa, tenuiter minuteque pubescens, stylo raed seat 
British Gutana: Arabapu River, Quelch & McConnell, 150. 
G. guianensis is one of the most distinct species of the genus, havi ing 
larger leaves than any other at present described. In appearance it 
more nearly resembles G. Oliv. (a native of Angola), than any 
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other species known to me. e curious utricles, which are character- 
istic of the genus Genlisea, "rai a very remarkable structure, which 
has been well described and figured in Darwin’s Jnsectivorous Plants, 
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p. 446, and Goebel’s Pflanzenbiologische Schilderungen, ii. p. 121, 
tt. 15-16. @. guianensis demonstrates that budding sometimes takes 
place at the tips of the leaves, as on one leaf a young plant ha 
menced to develop near the oo and on another tufts of small sistiien 
had formed, as shown in fig. 2.—N. E. Br 
Fig. 1, a utricle with one of the terminal pay flattened out ; 2, apex ofa sian = 
tufts 27 utricles gro owi ng saya it Seas gr cape w with bract an se tw 
teoles; 4, a flower; 5, calyx and 0 and side view of a stam ? pet 
with the upper half of the expenle viele bee yerntl the seeds ; 8, put All 
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