474 xciv. lentibulak,ie.3E (stapf). [Utricularia. 



in tufts at and near the base of the peduncle, short and scarcely 

 ■branched ; stolons, leaves and bladders unknown. Peduncle straight or 

 nearly so, filiform, simple, 3-1 -flowered ; barren bracts few, remote, like 

 the fertile ovate, about J lin. long ; bracteoles somewhat narrower than 

 the bract. Sepals subequal, rotundate-elliptic to suborbicular, 1^-3-i 

 lin. long. Corolla pale purple with a large yellow palate, about 5 lin. 

 long ; upper lip obovate, subemarginate, constricted towards the base, 

 over 2 4 lin. long ; lower lip suborbicular, up to 44 lin. long and 5 lin. 

 broad, spreading ; palate double-crested, crest transversely rugose ; spur 

 straight, subhorizontal, cylindric, acute, 3 lin. long. Anthers over \ lin. 

 long. Style about as long as the stigma ; anticous stigmatic lobe broad- 

 ovate. Capsule and seeds unknown. — Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2796, 

 figs. 16-17. U. sanguined, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 405, not of 

 Oliver. 



Mozamb. Dist. Mashonaland : in running water, near Salisbury, Rand, 

 517! 



Also in the Transvaal. 



2. U. odontosperma, Stapf. A delicate, small herb, 3-7 in. 

 high. Stolons finely filiform, branched, forming small matted tufts, 

 hidden among moss ; rhizoids numerous from the base of the scapes, 

 3-4 lin. long. Leaves one at the base of the scape and others scattered 

 on the stolons, persistent or decayed at the time of flowering ; blades 

 narrowly linear, gradually narrowed into the petiole, obtuse, 14-24; lin. 

 long, under ^ lin. broad; petiole up to 3 J lin. long, very slender. 

 Bladders from the stolons, and sometimes from the leaves (particularly 

 the petioles), globose-ovoicl, up to 4 lin. long, stalk short to almost as long 

 .as the bladder, mouth distinctly 2-lipped, lips fimbriate ; lower lip 

 much smaller than the upper ; scape straight or slightly flexuous, simple, 

 with very few and obscure scales, distantly 4-1 -flowered ; bracts and 

 bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost ^ lin. long ; pedicel slightly 

 exceeding the bract, at length up to 1 lin. long. Sepals about 1-14 lin. 

 long, obtuse, the upper ovate-orbicular, the lower more elliptic and often 

 smaller. Corolla purple (?), 5 lin. long ; upper lip 24-3 lin. long, base 

 broad, blade obovate, rounded, occupying one-half of the lip ; lower lip 

 subquadrate or rounded, 3-34; lin. long, more or less parallel to the 

 spur, palate obliquely raised, gaping wide, double-crested, crests 

 tubercled or rugose ; spur suddenly contracted from a very broad conic 

 base, upper half cylindric, obtuse, 2-24 lin. long ; anthers \ lin. long ; 

 filaments 1 lin. long, filiform. Style stout, distinctly shorter than the 

 stigma ; upper stigma-lip ovate, half as long as the large orbicular or 

 obovate lower lip ; capsule globose, \\ lin. long; seeds irregular hemi- 

 spheric or hemi-ellipsoid, top orbicular or elliptic with a narrow many- 

 toothed margin, the teeth consisting of stout, short papillae. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : between Lake Tanganyika and Lake 

 Kukwa, Nutt ! British Central Africa : Nyas:iland ; Shire Highlands, Buchanan ! 

 J31antyre, Last ! 



