I 'Iricularia.] xciv. lextibularie.-e (stapf). 479' 



I; lin. in diam., smooth, reticulate (?). — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i.. 

 788 ; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 93, and in Baum, Kunene-Samb. 

 Exped. 371*. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 263 ! near the- 

 Kuebe River, 2900 ft., Baum, 305 ! 



IVIozamb. 3>ist. German East Africa: lower plateau north of Lake Nyasa, 

 Thomson .' 



9. U. firmula, Welw. ex Oliver in Joum. Linn. Soc. ix. 152. 

 An annual, delicate, terrestrial herb. Bhizoids capillary, more or less 

 branched. Leaves in scanty rosettes at the base of the scape and 

 scattered on the rhizoids, usually decayed at the time of flowering, . 

 obovate-spathulate to linear-spathulate, more or less gradually attenuated 

 into the long very slender petiole, with it up to 4 lin. long, I- lin. 

 broad. Pitchers from the leaves and the rhizoids, ovoid, mouth narrow, 

 upper lip short with 4 short rigid hairs ; lower lip a naked rim. Scape 

 filiform, simple or branched with the branches stiff and suberect, up to 

 8 in. high, scales minute, lanceolate. Flowers usually numerous, up to 

 20 or, in branched specimens, even more, 2-3 lin. distant ; bracts and 

 bracteoles subequal, bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, bracteoles lanceo- 

 late, J to over h lin. long ; pedicels shorter than the bracts. Sepals 

 orbicular, rather broader than long, very concave. Corolla lj-l-f lin. 

 long, yellow with an orange- coloured palate ; upper lip quadrate, 

 slightly bilobed, emarginate or entire, fleshy, about J lin. high, lower 

 lip distinctly broader than long, slightly 3-lobed, J— | lin. long ; spur 

 cylindric or conic-cylindric from a short wide base, usually straight, 

 descending, 1-1| lin. long. Anthers J.-| lin. long. Pistil bottle- 

 shaped, with a short neck; stigma subsessile ; upper lip small, ovate 

 or shortly and broadly triangular ; lower lip truncate, broad and short. 

 Capsule globose, scarcely 1 lin. in diam. Seeds globose, smooth, A lin. 

 long, shining. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 788 ; Kam. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxxiii. 03, partly, and in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 372; 

 Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2797, figs. 1-11. 



Nile Land. Uganda : Nandi, Scott-Mliot, 7039 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; by the River Cuanza, near 

 Sansumanda, Welwitsch, 262 ! by the Cbifcanda River, 4000 ft., Baum, 142 ! 



IVIozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: Kirk! British Central Africa : on an island in 

 the Zambesi near the Victoria Falls, Kirk ! Nyasaland : Tanganyika Plateau, 3000- 

 4000 ft., Whyte .' 



Kirk's specimens from the Victoria Falls are muck stunted, but they dissect in 

 every respect like the slender typical form. 



10. U. Baumii, Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 102. A slender, 

 twining annual. Bhizoids capillary, much-branched. Leaves decayed 

 at the time of flowering, not known. Pitchers unknown. Scape 

 filiform, twining, up to 1 ft. long ; scales few, subulate, minute. 

 Flowers 1-2, distant ; bracts ovate, acute, 1 lin. long ; bracteoles 

 lanceolate to subulate, shorter than or as long as the bracts ; pedicels 



