Utricular •ia.~\ xciv. lentibularie/E (stapf). 475 



3. U. sanguinea, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 153, partly. 

 A delicate terrestrial herb, 4-5 in. high. Stolons filiform, up to more 

 than 1 in. long, sparingly and remotely branched, apparently white and 

 somewhat fleshy in the fresh state, showing a dark axile vascular strand 

 when dry. Rhizoids capillary, 2-3 lin. long from the base of the scapes. 

 Leaves in small rosettes at the base of the scape, and, scattered, on the 

 stolons, present at the time of flowering, blades somewhat fleshy, orbi- 

 cular to obovate-elliptic with a short cuneate base, 1-2 \ lin. long ; 

 petioles 1-3 lin. long, or those of the rosette leaves very short ; bladders 

 from the stolons, leaf -blades and petioles, not very numerous, on slender 

 stalks of often more than half their length, subglobose, \ lin. long, 

 mouth 2-lipped, lips fimbriate, upper rather large orbicular, lower very 

 short. Scape straight, filiform, simple, 2-4-flowered ; flowers distant ; 

 bracts ovate, i lin. long ; bracteoles lanceolate, about as long as the 

 bracts ; pedicel up to \ lin. long. Sepals subequal, 1^-2 lin. long, 

 I'otundate-elliptic, obtuse. Corolla very bright blood-red purple, 5-6 lin. 

 long ; upper lip over 2 lin. long, base broad, blade occupying about half 

 of the lip, obovate to broad-oblong, subtruncate ; lower lip broad 

 cuneate-rotundate, 3 lin. long, deflexed, palate raised, slightly 2-crested, 

 crests faintly tubercled ; spur cylindric, rather longer than the lower 

 lip, descending. Anthers about A lin. long. Capsule globose, 1^ lin. in 

 diani. ; seeds (not quite mature) truncate-pyramidal or conic, top flat 

 elliptic or orbicular with a narrow margin. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL 

 Wehv. i. 788 ; Kara, in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii., 90 (the Angola plant J ; 

 Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2795, figs. 1-4. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in swampy pastures and dump abandoned 

 fields, 5000 ft., Welvsitsch, 259 ! 



Distinguishable from the similar U. livlda by the long and apparently tfesliy 

 stolons, Lager, more persistent leaves, larger bladders with longer stalks, almi st 

 blood-red flowers with a wide-open, scarcely tubercled palate. 



4. U. tribracteata, Hochst. in A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 18. 

 A delicate dwarf terrestrial herb, including the inflorescence 1|~ 3 in. 

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

 tufts ; rhizoids numerous from the base of the peduncle, 3-4 lin. long. 

 Leaves few at the base of the scape or scattered or in very small tufts 

 from the stolons, usually decayed at the time of flowering ; blades 

 spathulate-cuneate, l-i-3 (rarely to 4) lin. long, rarely more than h lin. 

 broad, gradually passing into the long (up to 5 lin.) and very slender 

 petiole. Bladders from the leaves (particularly the petioles) and stolons, 

 globose-ovoid, up to J lin. long, on a very short or somewhat longer 

 (over ^ lin.) stalk, mouth distinctly 2-lipped, lips fimbriate, lower lip 

 much smaller than the upper. Peduncle straight or nearly so, filiform, 

 simple, 4-1 -flowered, the flowers of 3-4-flowered specimens scattered 

 over the upper half of the floral axis ; bracts and bracteoles very 

 similar, equal, lanceolate, acute, up to i lin. long, lowest bracts often 

 barren ; pedicel about as long as the bracts or ultimately exceeding 

 them. Sepals subequal, about l-4-H lin. long, obtuse, the upper 



