482 xciv. LENTiBULAiUE.E (stapp). [TJtricularia. 



■acuminate sepals, larger corollas, with an ovate-oblong upper lip and filiform 

 filaments . 



18. U. spiralis, Smith in Rees, Cyclop, xxxvii. no. 5. An annual, 

 •delicate, terrestrial herb. Rhizoids much-branched ; ultimate branchlets 

 very short, glandular-verruculose. Leaves from the rhizoicls, usually 

 decayed at the time of flowering, spathulate-linear. obtuse, gradually 

 attenuated into the slender petiole, up to over | in. long and up to more 

 than A lin. broad. Pitchers from the rhizoids and the leaves, inverted 

 with the mouth near the stalk, obovate-globose ; upper lip divided to 

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

 subcapillary, up to 1 ft. long, usually twining round other plants ; scales 

 few, minute. Flowers 2-4, remote ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, up to f lin. 

 long ; bracteoles lanceolate to subulate, as long as or more commonly 

 shorter than the bracts ; pedicels very slender, up to 2 lin, long, with 2 

 wings near the tip gradually widening and passing into the calyx. 

 Sepals unequal ; upper ovate, acute to acuminate, 1-|- lin. long in flower, 

 at length up to 2 J lin. long ; lower distinctly shorter, less acute to 

 almost obtuse, both many-nerved. Corolla 2 1 — 3 lin. long (from the tip 

 of the upper lip to the end of the spur), blue with a white spot at the 

 palate ; upper lip not or very slightly exceeding the upper sepal, shortly 

 linear, truncate, not quite 1 lin. long; lower lip more or less erect, broadly 

 obovate, rounded, up to 2 lin. long, palate convex, elliptic, white or 

 yellowish with purple veins, with a tuft of minute hairs in front of the 

 mouth ; spur conic, acute, straight, descending, ] J-2 lin. long. Anthers 

 up to J lin. long ; filaments with a very broad convex wing on one side. 

 Style short, but distinct ; upper lip of stigma hardly any ; lower sub- 

 quadrate, truncate. Capsule globose-ellipsoid, up to lh lin. long. Seeds 

 globose, about | lin. in diam. ; testa reticulate, areoles nearly isodia- 

 metric; embryo globose, not differentiated. — Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 ix. 149 ; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 102. U. ccerulea, Oliver, I.e., not 

 of Linn. U. uliginoides, Kam. I.e. 101, not of Wight. 



Upper Guinea. Sierre Leone : Scarries Valley, near Kitchom ; Scott-Elliot, 

 4342 ! and without precise locality, Afzelius ! Lagos Island, Barter, 20214 ! 



Smith described the lower lip as " cloven." He must have examined a flower 

 with a torn or split lower lip, as it is certainly entire. A. De Candolle, who did 

 not see any specimens, renders '' cloven " with " trilobum," which is equally wrong. 

 U. spiralis is extremely similar to weak specimens of U. uliginoides, Wight, which 

 is quite distinct from U. ccerulea, Linn., as originally understood by Linnseus (see 

 Smith in Rees, I.e. no. 47), but differs from it in somewhat smaller flowers, with a 

 large white palate, very broadly winged filaments, and a testa with almost isodia- 

 metric (not elongated) areoles, and as it seems very much smaller leaves. 



14. U. Schweinfurthii, Baker MSS. A very delicate, twining 

 annual. Rhizoids and leaves unknown. Scape capillary, twining round 

 other plants, simple or sparingly branched, up to more than \ ft. long ; 

 scales very minute, few. Flowers few to six, distant ; bracts and 

 bracteoles under \ lin. long, lanceolate, subequal ; pedicels very slender, 

 up to 4-| lin. long, obscurely winged near the tip. Sepals unequal ; 

 upper ovate, acuminate, slightly over 1 lin. long in flower, nearly up to 



