476 xciv. LENTiBULARiEiE (stapf). \JJtricularia. 



orbicular to ovate-orbicidar, lower elliptic. Corolla purple or purple and 

 yellow, 2|— 31in. long, upper lip li- 2 lin. long, obovate, rounded or sub- 

 marginate, constricted belowthe middle; lower lip subquadrate or rounded^ 

 1|— 2 lin. long, more or less parallel to the spur, palate much raised, usually 

 to an acute angle, and parallel to the upper lip, double-crested, crests- 

 dark, minutely tuberclecl; spur straight or almost so, conic, often broad, as 

 long as or longer than the lower lip. Anthers J-J lin. long ; filaments 

 filiform, J— § lin. long. Style about as long as the stigma ; upper stigma- 

 lip oblong or ovate, £ as long as the large, rotundate lower lip. Cap- 

 sule globose, \ lin. in cliam. ; seeds irregularly hemi-ellipsoid or shortly 

 pyramidal, angular, \-\ lin. long, top flat, more or less elliptic, with a 

 fine membranous or obscure margin. Embryo-top fiat or slightly con- 

 cave. — Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 99 ; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 

 427, and in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2795, figs. 5-12. U. elevata, Kam. I.e. 

 inclucl. var. Macowani. 



TTile Land. Abyssinia : Shireh, in swamps, Scliimper, 1943 ! swampy places 

 on the mountains above Salamanka, 8100 ft., Svhimjper, 1149 ! Somaliland, Miss 

 Edith Cole ! 



Also in the Transvaal. The Abyssinian specimens agree very well in habit with 

 the form, described by Kamienski as U. elevata ; but the corolla was evidently yellow 

 and purple. 



5. U. Kirkiiy Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 428. A delicate,, 

 dwarf, terrestrial herb, 1-5 in. high. Stolons filiform, branched ; 

 rhizoids capillary from the base of the scapes. Leaves scattered on the 

 stolons, often decayed at the time of flowering ; blades spathulate- 

 cuneate, up to lh lin. long and h lin. broad, gradually narrowed into 

 the usually long and slender petiole. Bladders on the leaves, ovoid- 

 globose, t,- lin. long, 2-lipped ; upper lip suborbicular ; lower very small, 

 both fringed ; mouth opposite the stalk. Scape straight or flexuous,. 

 simple with very few minute scales, 5-1 -flowered ; flowers rather distant, 

 if 4 or •">, scattered over the upper half of the scape ; bracts and 

 bracteoles subequal, lanceolate, acute, usually under i-lin. long : pedicels- 

 almost as long as or at last somewhat longer than the bract. Sepals 

 1 lin. long, obtuse (rarely the upper subacute) ; upper ovate-orbicular 

 to orbicular; lower elliptic. Corolla pale purple with a darker upper 

 lip, li-2^ lin. long, upper lip constricted below the middle, upper part 

 somewhat fleshy, obovate-oblong to obovate-quadrate, about 1 lin. long, 

 palate almost parallel to the upper lip, double crested, crests minutely 

 but distinctly tuberclecl ; spur H- lin. long, suddenly narrowed from a 

 broad conic base into the slender cyiindric turnecl-up more or less 

 obtuse upper half. Style shorter than the stigma ; upper stigma-lip 

 oblong, about A the length of the lower suborbicular lower lip. Capsule 

 globose, up to over 1 lin. in diam. ; seeds shortly truncate-conic, often 

 angular, top face elliptic or suborbicular, about ^ lin. long with a fine 

 margin or a fine simple rim ; embryo-top flat or slightly concave. — 

 Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2795, fig. I'd. U. exilis, Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxxiii. 97 (Rehmann, 6599, not Oliv.) ; var. Ecldonii, Kam. I.e. 98 

 (Kirk's plant); var. hirsuta, Kam. I.e. 



