Utricularia.] xciv. lentibularie.e (stapf). -177 



Iiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Damaraland ; Waterberg, 

 Dinterl 



Mozamb. 3>ist. Zanzibar, Kirk ! German East Africa: Zunguebar, Kirk ! 

 British Central Africa: Batoka Country; Sbindi stream, Kirk ! 



Also in the Transvaal. Very similar to U. exilis, but distinguished by the 

 tubercled palate. Dinter's specimen from Waterberg was described by Kamienski 

 as U. exilis, var. hirsuta, on account of the supposed presence of a dense tomentum 

 of short hairs. I had an opportunity of examining the very specimens from which 

 Kamienski described this variety, but was unable to find any hairs. The only tiling 

 that resembled hairs was a tine layer of an (Kdogonium which coated the lower 

 portions of the scapes. I also found apparently the same alga (in fructification) on 

 the Transvaal specimens of U. Kirkii. The alga creeps up the scapes closely 

 adpressed to them with the exception of the ends of the threads, which sometimes 

 diverge. 



6. U. exilis, Oliver in Joum. Linn. Soc. ix. 154. A delicate, 

 very dwarf, terrestrial herb ; stolons filiform, moderately branched. 

 Leaves often decayed at the time of flowering, in small fascicles at the 

 base of the scape or scattered along the stolons, narrowly spathulate or 

 ligulate, narrowed into the long, slender petiole, up to 3 (or even more) 

 lin. long, ^— i lin. broad. Bladders from the stolons and leaves, sub- 

 globose, about |~ | lin. long, upper lip broadly elliptic, as long as the 

 bladder is wide at the mouth, lower very short, both lips fimbriate. 

 Scape capillary, 1-2 in. high, 1-3-flowered, straight, simple, rarely with 

 1-2 branchlets. Flowers, if more than 1, distant ; bracts and bracteoles 

 subequai, ovate-lanceolate, -J- lin. long; pedicel about as long as the 

 bracts. Sepals orbicular to broad-elliptic, the upper usually broader, 

 =£ lin. long. Corolla 1|— 2^ lin. long, white, yellow or more or less 

 purplish, with a yellow palate, which is sometimes streaked with 

 purple ; upper lip subquadrate or subobovate from a short broad base, 

 slightly emarginate, fleshy, |—1 lin. high ; lower lip subquadrate or 

 somewhat broader than long, obscurely undulate, |-1 lin. long, palate 

 smooth with obscure ridges ; spur straight or curved, wide funnel- 

 shaped at the base rather suddenly contracted at or below the middle, 

 then cylindric, obtuse, straight and subhorizontal or curved upwards. 

 Anther -] lin. long. Style very short, but distinct, conical ; upper lip 

 of the stigma ovate to semi-orbicular, half as long as the obovate- 

 quadrate lower lip. Capsule globose, 1 lin. in diam. ; seeds irregularly 

 hemispheric or hemi-ellipsoid, more or less angular, T V~v un - l° n g> 

 sometimes compressed and almost transparent near the hilum, top face 

 with a clean edge. — Hiern in Cat. At'r. PI. Welw. i. 788 ; Kam. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 97, and in Baum, Ivunene-Samb. Exped. (partly, 

 and exclusive of the varieties), 372. 



Wile Land. Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2545 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angolo : Pungo Andongo; among the rocks of Pedras de 

 •Guinga, Wei witsch, 254 ! near Catete and Luxillo, Welwitseh, 255 ! near Lake 

 Quibinda, Welwitseh, 256! Huilla; Humpata Plateau, 4800-5000 ft., Wehoitsch, 

 253 ! between Erne and the Lopolla River, Welwitseh, 252 ! between Hartebeest 

 and Lowenpan, 3600 ft., Baum, 116 ! German South-west Africa : Amboland ; 

 Olukunda, Rautanen ! 



