480 xciv. lentibularie,£ (stapf). {IJtricularia. 



filiform, 7-10 lin. long, after flowering stiff-erect. Sepals subequal 

 upper broadly elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute, over 2 lin. long, lower 

 elliptic, obtuse. Corolla deep violet, 9-10 lin. long (from the tip of 

 the upper lip to the end of the spur) ; upper lip panduriform, over 5 

 lin. long, of which 3|~3f lin. go to the ovate-orbicular part above the 

 constriction; lower lip orbicular-cuneate, 4-5 lin. long; palate large, 

 almost parallel to the upper lip, laterally compi-essed, almost triangular 

 in side view and subacute at the upper angle, edge of mouth ciliolate, 

 cilia gathered in a small tuft in front ; spur slender, conic, acute, over 4 

 lin. long. Anthers over J lin. long ; pollen globose, with 4-5 short 

 -slits and pores; filament almost 1 lin. long, obovate-oblong. Pistil 

 cylindric ; stigma subsessile ; upper lip obscure : lower short, broad, 

 truncate. Capsule and fruit unknown. — Kam. in Baum, Kunene- 

 Samb. Exped. 872. U. reticulata, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 149 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 787, not of Smith. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in bogs on the left bank of the 

 Quipumpimhhne River in the Humpata district, 4800 ft., very rave, Welwitsch, 

 265 ! by the Kuebe River, 3900 ft., Baum, 307 ! 



This differs from the East Indian U. reticulata in the much larger upper lip and 

 the very large subtriangular palate ; and also in having a smaller calyx. 



11. U. prehensilis, E. Meyer, Comment. PL Afr. Austr. i. 282. 

 An annual, slender, terrestrial herb. Rhizoids filiform, whitish, brittle, 

 loosely matted. Leaves scattered on the rhizoids. usually decayed at 

 the time of flowering, linear-lanceolate or Ungulate, obtuse, up to almost 

 1 in. long and up to 1 lin. broad, narrowed into a very slender petiole 

 of about t or | of the length of the blade, thin. Pitchers numerous 

 from the leaves and rhizoids, reversed with the mouth near the short 

 stalk, globose or ovoid-globose, almost \ lin. in diam. ; upper lip divided 

 to the base into 2 horn-like curved segments ; lower lip 0. Scape 

 filiform, 3 in. to more than 1 ft. long, erect and more or less flexuous 

 when short, twining when long ; scales few, minute. Flowers 1-6, 

 remote ; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, over 1 lin. long ; brac- 

 teoles lanceolate to subulate, as long as or shorter to much shorter than 

 the bracts ; pedicels filiform, 2-5 lin. long. Sepals membranous, some- 

 what dissimilar ; upper ovate, acute or acuminate, many-nerved, in 

 flower 2-2^ lin. long, in fruit up to 4 lin. long ; lower visually shorter, 

 more or less elliptic and obtuse. Corolla 6-8 lin. long (from the tip of 

 the upper lip to the end of the spur), yellow ; upper lip broadly oblong- 

 spathulate with a rounded entire or emarginate tip, 2|-4 lin. long ; 

 lower lip 3-4 lin. long, broadly ovate ; palate erect almost parallel to 

 the upper lip, with two large smooth anteriorly converging gibbosities 

 passing into a minute toothed crest towards the corolla-mouth, which 

 is ciliolate, the cilia joining in front in a more or less brush-like tuft ; 

 spur straight, descending, acute, 3-4^ lin. long. Anthers \ lin. long. 

 Style short, stout, gradually passing into the ovary : upper lip of stigma 

 very short and flat; lower depressed, rounded. Capsule ellipsoid, 

 2h lin. long. Seeds very obliquely ovoicl, tubercled on the back, J- 



