LentibulacecB.'] lentibulace^. 255 



eluded in the tube and inserted at its base. Anthers 1 -celled. Ovary free, 

 1 -celled, with several ovides inserted on a short free central placenta. Style 

 short, with a 2-lipped stigma. Fniit a capsule. Seeds minute, without albu- 

 men. Embryo with very short cotyledons, or apparently undivided. — jMarsli 

 or aquatic plants, with radical or floating leaves (or sometimes none). Flowers 

 solitary or several in a raceme, on leafless radical or terminal peduncles or scapes. 

 A famUy of very few genera, dispersed over the greater part of the globe. 



1. UTRICULARIA, Linn. 



Calyx deeply 2-lobed. Corolla spurred ; the mouth of the tube closed or 

 nearly so by a convex palate ; the upper lip short, broad, and 2-lobed ; the 

 lower longer, broadly 3-lobed, all the lobes turned back. Capsule globular, 

 opening in 2 valves. — Marsh plants, either leafless or with entire radical 

 leaves, or floating |)lants, with leaves divided into capillaiy segments, and 

 often interspersed with little bladders or vesicles full of air. Peduncles or 

 scapes radical or axillaiy, often with a few minute alternate scales. Flowers 

 in a terminal raceme, with a similar scale or bract under each pedicel. 



A considerable genus, with the wide general range of the Order. 



Floating plants. Leaves divided into capiUary segments, mostly inter- 

 spersed with utricles. 

 Pedicels thickened after flowering. Corolla near \ in. across. Style 



elongated • •^- ^•f^-'^osa. 



Fruiting pedicels slender. Corolla not 3 lines across. Stigma sessile 



or nearly so 2. U. diantha. 



Marsh plants. Leaves radical, entire, or none. 



Leaves linear or linear-spathulate, usually disappearing before the time 

 of flowering. 

 Scales and bracts fixed by the base. 



Flowers blue or piu-ple. Fiaiiting pedicels erect or spreading, 3 



lines long. Calyx-lobes acute in fruit %. JJ. cceridea. 



Flowers yellow. Fruiting ])edicels scarcely 2 lines long, recm-ved. 



Calyx-lobes obtuse in fruit 4. t/. bifida. 



Scales and bracts attached by the centre, free and pointed above and 



below '. h. U. racemosa. 



Leaves orbicular, with slender petioles, present at the time of flower- 

 ing. Calyx-lobes very unequal. 

 Spur of the corolla slender, about equalling the lower lip . . . . 6. ?7. orhiadata. 

 Spur of the corolla conical, much shorter than the lower lip . . • 7. V. Harlandi. 



1. U. flexuosa, VaJil; Oliv. in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. iii. 175. Stems 

 floating, branched, extending to 1 or more feet. Leaves all submerged and 

 root-like, dichotomously divided into numerous capillary segments, inter- 

 spersed with little globular bladders or utricles. Peduncles usually 3 to 6 

 in. long, with few or no scales, bearing a raceme of 3 to 6 yellow flowers. 

 Pedicets erect and slender at the time of flowering, usually turned do^^ nwards 

 and thickened upwards when in fruit. Calyx-lobes usually unequal, enlarged 

 and spreading in fruit. Corolla full 5 lines across; the spur obtuse, about 2 

 lines long. Style above 1 line long. Capsule near 3 lines diameter.— f^. 

 fasciculata, Ptoxb. ; Wight, Ic. t. 15fi8. U. extensa, Ilancc in Walp. Ann. iii. 3. 



In smaU streams. Ilance. In a small pond at East Point, Wilford. Widely distril)utod 

 over India, from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Archipelago, and northward to the Hima- 

 laya and S. China. 



