486 xeiv. lentibularie^; (stapf). [Ctricularia.. 



South Central. Congo Free State: between Lukolela and Agusto, Butlner, 467.- 

 Mozamb. Uist, Zanzibar, KirTc ! Portuguese East Africa : Beira, ScJilechter r 

 12174 (ex Kamienski). 



Widely spread through tropical South and Central America, the West Indies 

 and the Eastern United States. I am not able to distinguish U. pusilla, Vahl, 

 from U. subulata particularly from the form, known as U. subulata, var. inaqualis r 

 DC, and assume that the plant enumerated by Kamienski, I.e. 105, under U. subu- 

 lata from Dolo in the Congo Free State (Schlechter, 12456) also is U. subulata. 



20. U. striatula, Smith in Bees. C'ycl. xxxvii. no. 17. A dwarf, 

 delicate, terrestrial herb. Stolons finely filiform, up to more than, 

 1 in. long, creeping among moss, bearing leaves and bladders, some- 

 times forming minute tubercles. Leaves scattered along the stolons 

 and usually in small rosettes at the base of the scapes ; blades more 

 or less orbicular, rarely over 1 lin. in diam. ; petiole as long as or 

 shorter than the blade. Bladders only from the stolons, obliquely 

 ovoid, up to ^ lin. long, stalk and mouth lateral, approximate, mouth 

 with 2 fimbriate oblong antenna?. Scape finely filiform, 1-6 in. long,, 

 straight or flexuous, with very few or no peltate ovate-lanceolate 

 scales, few- to 10- flowered ; bracts about f lin. long, like the scales,, 

 attached much below the middle ; bracteoles 2, oblong-lanceolate, some- 

 what shorter than the bracts ; pedicels capillary, 2-2^ lin. long. Sepals 

 very unequal, more or less orbicular ; upper at length up to 1£ lin. long 

 and adnate to the capsule; lower J lin. long, refiexed. Corolla rose- 

 coloured with a yellow palate, 2J-3 lin. long ; upper lip suborbicular., 

 emarginate, rather broader than long, 1 lin. high ; lower lip semi- 

 orbicular, 5-lobed, 2\- 3 lin. long, spreading ; palate slightly gibbous,, 

 papillose ; spur subulate, up to 2i lin. long, deflexed. Filaments fili- 

 form, |- lin. long; anthers oblong, \ lin. long; pollen subglobose, with 

 4 (always ?) minute pores. Stigma subsessile ; upper lip scarcely any ; 

 lower rotundate. Capsule subglobose, opening laterally near the base 

 with a wide slit ; pericarp very thin, transparent. Seeds oblong-ellip- 

 soid, \— \ lin. long, elegantly glochidiate ; embryo with two obscure 

 swellings at the top. — U. orbiculata, Wall. Cat. 1500; DC Prodr. 

 viii. 18 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. India, iv. 334 ; Oliver in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iii. 187, ix. 156 ; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 106 ; Goebel 

 in Ann. Jard. Buitenz. ix. 53-60, figs. 28-36 and 68-70. U. glochidiata,, 

 Wight, Ic. t. 1581. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Regent, Scott-Elliot, 3965 ! and without 

 precise locality, Afzelius ! Cameroons : Cameroon Peak, 5000 ft., Mann, 1964 1. 

 near Buea, epiphytic on Elceis guineensis, 3100 ft., Preuss. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa, Hanninrjton ! 



Throughout India and in the Malay Archipehigo. There can be no doubt as to-, 

 the identity of the African and Indian plants. 



21. U. rigida, Bervjamin in Linnrea, xx. 303. A small aquatic 

 attached herb. Stolons filiform, up to ^ lin. thick, branched ; branches- 

 tip to 9 in. long, slender, very flexible, floating in swift water, bearing 

 leaves and inflorescences, or leafless. Rhizoicls from the base of the- 

 scapes, short, thick, cylindric, minutely glandular, sensitive, acting like- 



