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Utricularia mixta Barnhart, sp. nov. 
Stems slender, horizontal, submersed, free-floating except at 
the single point of attachment, up to 1 m. long, the older inter- 
nodes 5-10 cm. long; leaves alternate, but forked from the very 
base and thus appearing opposite, each fork pinnately decom- 
pound with filiform segments, 10-20 cm. long, one fork usually 
much more oe bladder-bearing than the other; mature 
piers I-I.5 mm. in diameter; scapes solitary, borne at alter- 
nating nodes, sary be cm. long, very slender, less than 2 mm. 
thick, 6—12-flowered; scales none, or sometimes I or 2, like 
empty bracts, near the base of the raceme; bracts ovate, acute, 
2-3 mm. long, concave and often sheathing the pedicels ; pedicels 
3-8 mm. long, at first erect but strongly recurved at maturity; 
calyx-lobes subequal, ovate, obtuse or acute, or the lower emargi- 
nate, about 2 mm. long, slightly accrescent and spreading under 
the mature fruit; corolla yellow, the upper lip subtriangular, 
emarginate, about 3 mm. long and broad, the lower lip rounded, 
truncate or slightly emarginate, broader than long, 5-7 mm. long, 
10-12 mm. broad, the palate prominent, faintly 2-lobed, the spur 
conic-subulate, porrect, slightly shorter than the lower lip; ovules 
numerous; capsule spheric, 2-4 mm. in diameter, apiculate by the 
remains of the stigma; seeds by abortion few, 7—I0, flat, peltate, 
winged all around, large for the genus, the net lenticular, about 
2 mm. in diameter, the wing up to 0.5 mm. 
‘Type collected on muddy borders of a ida Vivijagua, Isle 
of Pines, February 28-29, 1916 (Britton, Britton & Wilson 
I50I4). 
In quiet water, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines; 
distributed by Wright as U. foliosa (2895) (true U. foliosa is 
Wright 2895a, distributed as U. foliosa oligosperma) ; Colombia ; 
Brazil. 
Family ACANTHACEAE 
Tubiflora Shaferi P. Wilson, sp. nov, 
Leaves basal, oblanceolate, runcinate-dentate, 2.5-5 cm. long, 
0.8-1.3 cm. wide, deep-green and more or less densely pilose, 
especially when young, short-petioled ; scapes 3-6 cm. long, slen- 
der, clothed with appressed, imbricated, acute, scale-like leaves 3 
mm. long; spikes 1-2 cm. long, the bracts ovate, rigid, 3.5-4 mm. 
long, 1.8-2 mm. broad, obtuse or acutish at the apex, not keeled 
on the back, ciliate, appressed-pilose above within, 
Pinelands, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, Oriente (Shafer 
3562). 
