Order 83. Lentibulariecs. 21 1 



rarely exceeding 6 inches in height : but they are all delicately 

 beautiful ; and it is specially true of plants that 



" In small proportions we just beauties see, 

 And in short measures life may perfect be." ~B. Jonson. 



UTRICULARIA. Pedicels bracted, calyx of 2 lobes, entire or 

 minutely toothed, often enlarged in fruit. 



Note. I have found great difficulty in identifying my plants with 

 the species either in JD. or H. 



1 . U. stellaris. Leaves submerged, verticelled, much divided 

 into hair-like segments with oval vesicles among and above 

 them, flowers yellow on long erect pedicels, calyx lobes ovate, 

 blunt, hairy, lips of corolla nearly equal, spur short and thick, 

 capsule hairy. 



Tanks in the Konkan. Throughout India (H.). He has a variety 

 with white flowers, striped violet. 



R. calls this plant leafless, looking on the hair-like masses as roots ; 

 and some of the other species have been so described. 



2. U. alboccerulea. Growing in masses, with the stems often 

 much intertwined, leaves small at the base of the scape soon 

 falling off, flowers deep blue, with white spot on the lower lip, 

 which is much the largest, and twice as long as the .acute spur. 

 Kajat cha ghds, Sita chi dsre (Sita's tears). 



This is essentially the Konkan species, H. having no other habitat. 

 It grows in quantities at Eutnagherry (where it is called the 

 Rutnagherry violet), Vingorla, &c., in little pools on the barest 

 sheet rock ; also in rice-fields at the end of the rains. Dr. T. Cooke 

 has it also at Mahableshwar, under the first native name given, but 

 I think it possible that that may be a different species from the 

 Konkan one. 



The second Maratta name was given me many years ago by a blue- 

 coated Rutnagherry policeman, when guiding me to some out-of-the- 

 way place, with this legend: "When Sita was brought back from 

 Ceylon by her husband Rama, after the expedition in which Hanumdn 

 took .so great a part, her tears falling upon the bare rocks caused 

 this lovely little flower to spring up." 



* U. c<erulea and U. reticulata must both be very like this ; the- latter, 

 Dr. De Crespigny says, grows with U.alboc&rulea on the laterite rock. 

 U. reticulata is variable in habit and size of flowers. The larger forms 

 are twining, the smaller rigid and erect (Oliver). The flowers are 

 distant, purple or blue, the throat veined darker, spur conical about 

 equal to the lower lip, calyx lobes broad, pointed. Mahabloshwar. 



3. U. arcuata. Leaves as in the last, flowers blue-purple 

 lower lip of corolla much the largest, spur long, slender, curved* 



Konkan and Belgaum. Said also to have been found in Bombay 



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