Utricularia.] xciv. lentibularie^e (stapf). 481 



almost .\ lin. long. — -DC. Prodr. viii. 20; Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 150, excl. var. ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welvv. i. 787; Kam. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxxiii. 102, incl. vars. huillensis, lingulata and hians, and in 

 JBaum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 373 ; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 432,. 

 and in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2798. U. madagascariensis, A. DC. I.e. U. 

 hians. A. DC. I.e. 25. U. lingulata, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 216 ;. 

 Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 55. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Humpata Plateau and in Morro de Lopollo,. 

 54-00 ft.. Wetwitsch, 261 ! near the Kuebe Eiver, 3900. ft., Baum, 303 ! by the 

 Longa River, above the Quiriri Eiver, 4160 it., Baum, 691a ! 



IVEozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Ubena ; Liangiro swamp, Goetze, 799 ! 



Also in Madagascar and Eastern South Africa. 



Kamienski (I.e.) quotes what he considers the typical form from "Angola 

 (Welwitsch, Iter angol. n. 261, Golungo) " and the variety huillensis from 

 " Benguella (Welwitsch, Iter benguellense, n. 261, Dist. Huilla)." Specimens were 

 actually distributed from Lisbon, with the inscription " Welw. Iter Angolense, 261,. 

 Utricularia prehensilis, E. Mey., Golungo Alto"; but there is no such label in. 

 Welwitsch's collection at the British Museum, and there is no doubt that n. 261 

 was collected in Huilla. Welwitsch describes (apparently from fresh material) the 

 palate as deeply marked with four channels, and De Candolle speaks of 4 crests. 

 ("palato lamellis quatuor sursum exarato") in describing U. hians. I have not 

 been able to make out the channels nor the crests in dried material. 



12. U. andongensis, Welio. ex Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 104. 

 A delicate terrestrial annual growing in patches. Rhizoids filiform, 

 branched, minutely glandular-verrucose. Leaves persistent at the time 

 of flowering, in small rosettes of 8-6, linear, obtuse, narrowed at the 

 base into a very short petiole, up to 15 lin. long and 1 lin. broad, fre- 

 quently producing pitchers and rhizoids, Pitchers on the rhizoids and 

 leaves, subglobose, \ lin. long, inverted ; upper lip divided almost to the 

 base into 2 slender horn-shaped tentacles, curved over the orifice. 

 Scape filiform to capillary, flexuous, 2 to more than 4 in. high ; scales 

 very few and minute. Flowers 1 or 2, distant ; bracts and bracteoles 

 subequal, lanceolate, acuminate, f- lin. long; pedicel about 3 lin. long, 

 capillary. Sepals broadly ovate in flower, upper larger than the lower, 

 If to almost 2 lin. long, orbicular and acutely acuminate when ripe. 

 Corolla yellowish, up to 4| lin. long (from the tip of the upper lip to 

 the end of the spur) ; upper lip ovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly exceeding 

 the upper sepal ; lower lip orbicular, 2 lin. long, palate scarcely gibbous, 

 smooth ; spur conical, acute, 2 J lin. long, straight or nearly so. Anthers 

 slightly over |- lin. long ; filaments Aliform, ^ lin. long. Stigma sub- 

 sessile ; upper lip indistinct ; lower short, broad, truncate. Capsule 

 and seeds unknown. — U. prehensilis, var. parviflora, Oliver in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 150. U. tortilis, var. andongensis, Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxxiii 104. 



lower Guinea. Gaboon : Sierra del Crystal ; on rocks in rivers, Mann T 

 1684 ! Angola : Pivngo Andongo ; boggy places by the Casalate River, on the steep 

 slopes of Pedra Songue, 3000 ft., Welwitsch, 264 ! 



No doubt, more nearly allied to V. tortilis than to V '. prehensilis ; but sufficiently 

 distinguishable by the persistent leaves, much broader and more conspicuously 



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