390 Key to the System of 



LENTIBULARINAE. 

 UTRICUX.A.B.XA. 



1708. Leaves submerged, repeatedly divided into capillary 

 segments. 



Floating, branched ; leaves distantly beset with numerous 

 minute roundish vesicular pitchers ; flowers in racemes ; 

 corolla yellow ; style very short ; fruits on thickened and 

 reflexed stalklets. U. flexuosa. 



Leaves all radical, usually minute ... ... ... 1707 



1707. Flowers few or several, terminal. 



Stem often rather tall, always branchless ; leaves from 

 ovate to almost linear, seldom conspicuously elongated ; 

 pitchers few ; flowers rather large, opposite or ternate, 

 in one or two or few sets, but occasionally one or two 

 flowers constituting the whole inflorescence ; corolla 

 generally violet- colored ; fruit globular. 



U. dichotoina. 

 Flowers two or few, lateral. 



Dwarf, branchless ; stem exceedingly thin ; leaves almost 

 ovate ; pitchers very few ; flowers very small, distant 

 along the stem, purplish, almost sessile, exceptionally one 

 only developed ; fruits minute. TJ 1 . lateriflora. 



POXiYPOBXPHOX.YX. 



1708. Quite dwarf, with very small flowers. 



Leaves very short, from elliptical and lanceolar to linear, 

 cuneate at the base ; flowers three or two or one ; corolla 

 rose-red, but orange -colored and yellow at the orifice; 

 its basal elongation conical, reaching the ends of the 

 lower lobes; style hardly developed; fruit globular. 

 Figure 105. P. tenella. 



GESNERIACEAE. 

 FIEIiDIA. 



1709. Fruit pulpy, whitish outside. 



Epiphyte, chiefly on fern-trees ; stem and main-branches 

 somewhat woody ; leaves flaccid, mostly from ovate- to 

 narrow-lanceolar, serrate except towards the base, much 

 beset with soft brownish or finally greyish hairlets, 

 alternately smaller and larger, the smaller occasionally 

 quite undeveloped ; flowers large, axillary, solitary, from 



