786 xc. LENTiBULARTACE^. \Utricularm 



long ; upper lip orbicular, entire ; lower obseiu'ely 2- to 3- 

 crenate ; spur as long as the lower lip. 



Httilla.— Flowers orange-yellow. At the muddy shore of the great 

 lake of Ivantala where the river Cacolovar takes its rise, at an elevation 

 about 4000 ft. ; fl. end of Feb. 18G0. No. 270. 



4. U. exoleta Br. Prodr. p. 430 (1810). 



U. diantha Scliult. Mant. i. p. 169(1822); Oliv., /.c, p. 147; 

 non Alph. DC. 



IcoLO E Bengo. — Floating, densely caespitose ; flowers small, pale 

 yellow. In Lagoa da Funda, not far from the river Bengo, plentiful 

 but not then seen elsewhere ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 267- 



Barra do Dande. — A tender, amphibious herblet, sometimes float- 

 ing with a much branched rhizome laden with small bladders, sometimes 

 growing on the damp mud with an abbreviated rhizome and without 

 any bladders ; flowers deep yellow. At the margins of the river 

 Dande and in neighbouring lakes near Bombo. sparingly ; fl. and 

 young fr. Sept. 1858. No. 267^. 



5. XJ. diploglossa Welw. ex Oliv., I.e., p. 147. 



HuiLLA. — Annual, amphibious, sometimes floating, sometimes 

 terrestrial, with its rhizome and branches bearing crowded bladders 

 and aggregated in the form of cushions ; the bladders blackish green 

 or livid purple, large in proportion to the size of the plant, com- 

 pressedly ovoid, ramentaceous at the top ; scape scarcely an inch long, 

 bibracteolate in the middle, 1 -flowered, erect at the time of flowering, 

 bent downwards in fruit ; corolla yellow, moderate in size ; the upper 

 lip 2- or 3-crenulate at the apex, not bifid ; the lower lip longer than 

 and twice as broad as the upper, bent downwards, sub-entire and 

 reflected on the margin, as well as the broadly conical obtuse spur 

 furnished beneath with thin scattered hairs ; the palate very large 

 and prominent ; anthers inserted on the filaments below the apex. In 

 spongy places by streams and in still bays of the streams, in Morro 

 <3e LopoUo, at an elevation of 5300 ft., plentiful ; fl. and fr. middle 

 of May 1860. No. 271- -^t the banks of the river Monino. A more 

 densely cifispitose form. No. 211b. 



6. U. cymbantha Oliv., I.e., p. 147. 



HuiLLA. — Corolla pale yellow or straw-coloured, small. Sometimes 

 floating, sometimes terrestrial, in rather shallow pools and covered 

 with various species of AlgEe, creeping along mud and forming broad 

 spongy patches ; in the more elevated wooded parts of Morro de 

 Lopollo, seen nowhere else ; fl. April 1860. No. 272. 



This is the plant referred to as U. ecalcaruta in Journ. Bot. xxxv. 

 pp. 38, 77, 78, 711, 81, X6, 87, and cf. p. 146 (1897) ; it formed a harbour 

 for the following fresh-water algas : n. 179 ; Mougeotia (sp.), Prnium 

 (sp.), P. vanohituin West, P. mhnduin Cleve, Docid'tum trifjemini/enim 

 West, Tetmemni-HS fimmdatns Ralfs, .Micmsterias arcuata Bail., var. 

 rndtpinnatifida West, and J/, tropien. Nordst., var. rrasm West. 



7. U. subulata L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 18 (1753) ; Oliv., ?.c.,p. 148. 

 HuiLL.A.. — An annual insignificant little herb ; leaves radical, 



spathulate-lingulate, greatly attenuate at the base ; scapes few- 

 flowered, setiform ; pedicels spreading-divaricate ; flowers yellow ; 

 capsules globose, red, resembling the sporogonia of mosses. In damp 

 pastures near Empalanca, on the Humpata plateau, in mossy places 



