490 xciv. lentibularie^ (stapf). [Utricularia .. 



Anthers patelliform when open, \ lin. in diam., cells confluent ; fila- 

 ments filiform, narrowly winged, § lin. long. Ovary globose ; style 

 distinct, short ; lower stigmatic lips truncate-rotundate, upper lip 0. 

 Capsule globose, 2-2J lin. in diam. Seeds box-shaped, 4— 5-angular r 

 |—§- lin. across, |— T V ^ n - high* a ^ the angles more or less narrowly 

 winged, top-face finely reticulate. Embryo not differentiated. — Roxb. 

 Coromand. PI. ii. 42, t. 180, Fl. Ind. i. 143 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. 

 Misc. iii. 91 ; 1c. PI. iv. 1. 1567 ; E. Meyer, Comm. PI. Afr. Austr. 281 ; 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 8 (inch var. coromandeliana) ; Oliver in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. 174, and ix. 146 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 785, partly; 

 Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 107 (inch vars. dilaiata, filiformis and 

 breviscapa) ; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 433. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : by the Senegal River, Roger! Rerroltet, 595! 

 617 ! Leprieur f French Guinea : Parana, on the River Niger, Scott-Elliot, 5360 t 

 Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 1553 ! Bornu : north of Mora, in Mandara, 

 Vogel ! 



"Nile Xsarac?* Kordofan : Omkenen, Steudner, 1456 ! in a lake at the foot of 

 Arashkol Mouritain, Kotschy, 202 ! Jur : near Wan, Heuglin, 33 ! Bongo : Gir,. 

 Schweinfurth, 2150 ! Uganda: Lake Victoria, near Entebbe, Cunnnigton, 620 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Icolo e Bon<ro ; in Lake Fun da, on the left hank 

 of the Bengo River, Welwitsch, 268 ! Lake Quilunda, near Prato, Welwitsch, 2866 ! 

 Barra do Dande ; in the River Dande, Welwitsch, 28fic ! in lakes by the Lifuaie 

 River, near Banza de Libongo, Welwitsch, 268<f ! Mossamedes ; by the Cunene 

 River, near Huinbe, 3700 ft., Banm, 104 ! German South-west Africa : Amboland j 

 Olnkonda, Schinz, 402 ! Rautanen, 483 ! Hereroland; Om na Mafriko, Schins, 400 ! 

 Ompoatyipiro, Dinter, 515 ! by the Cunene River, near Kileri, Schinz ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Quaqua River, near Quilimane, 

 JKenyharlh ! " Zambesiland," Kirk / Lower Zambesi ; near Shigogo, Kirk ! 

 Lupata, Kirk ! 'below Lupata, Kirk! British Central Africa : Catumba Country,. 

 Nicholson ! Bechuanaland ; Bitterpits, west of Lake Ngami, Schinz, 401 ! 



Also in South Africa, Madagascar, India, and tropical Australia. 



25. XT. villosula, Stapf. A submerged, aquatic herb floating close 

 to the surface. Stems filiform, very slender, almost villous from 

 extremely fine spreading hairs. Leaves heteromorphic ; normal leaves- 

 from a line to more than 1 in. apart, simple or of 2-3 rays, not 

 auricled, rays 5 to 8 lin. long, finely filiform and repeatedly divided 

 from 1-2| lin. above the base or inflated and spindle-shaped up to the 

 middle and multifid above, delicately villous in the lower part ; ultimate 

 segments capillary, very sparsely and minutely setulose, with or without 

 bladders ; bladders 1 or few on a pinna, obliquely globose-ovoid, | lin. 

 in diam., mouth sublateral, oblique, oblong, delicately fimbriate ; float 

 leaves 5-6 in a whorl, lanceolate-oblong in outline, terete, attenuated 

 into a short stalk, 4-6 lin. long, up to lh lin. in diam., with short multifid 

 sometimes bladder-bearing pinnae near the apex. Racemes terminal at 

 the end of stems bearing foliage- and float-leaves, 4-2-flowered, the 

 uppermost 2-3 flowers rather close, the 3rd or 4th (if present) about 

 li in. below them ; peduncle very slender, glabrous, about 1£ in. long to 

 the lowest flower, without scales ; bracts ovate, nerveless, scarcely i lin. 

 long; bracteolesO; pedicels filiform, l|-2 lin. long, suberect also in 

 fruit. Sepals subequal, ovate-orbicular to depressed-orbicular, h lin. 



