Utricular -ia.] xciv. lentibularie^e (stapf). 493' 



ovate or rotundate, 1-1 £ lin. long ; bracteoles ; pedicel |— 1J in. long,. 

 erect in flower, then gradually recurving. Sepals subequal, broadly 

 ovate to rotundate, 1-1£ lin. long. Corolla yellow, up to 4 J lin. long ;. 

 upper lip almost orbicular, 2 lin. long ; lower lip rotundate to subquad- 

 rate, about 3-4 lin. long ; palate broad, slightly 2-gibbous ; spur broad- 

 conic, obtuse, 2^-3 lin. long. Filaments § lin. long, linear ; anthers 

 -j^j- in. long. Pistil passing into the very short style ; upper stigmatic- 

 lobe obscure; lower broad-ovate. Capsule globose, almost 1£ lin. in 

 diam. Seeds disc-shaped, more or less pentagonal, i lin. in diam., with 

 a narrow wing all round ; testa reticulate. Embryo sublenticular, 

 undifferentiated. — Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 123 ; Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 785 ; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 110, partly. 

 U. diploglossa, Kam. I.e., partly. 



North Central. Bagirmi : muddy banks of an affluent of the River Shari, 

 Vogei, 9-1 ! 



Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schioeinfurth, 259-1 ! in the Bain- el Gaza],. 

 Schu-einfarfli, iii. SB partly ! Uganda : Unyoro, Speke Sf Grant ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in the Elver Quipumpumhine and most 

 of the other gently flowing streams in Sobato de Humpata, 4800 ft., covering broad 

 tracts, Welwitsch, 269! 269 b! by the Cunene River, Johnston I 



Mozamb, Sist. German East Africa : Lake Victoria, near Bukoba, Cun- 

 ningion, 618 ! 



Very closely allied to U. diploglossa, from whicb it differs only in the longer, 

 more divided leaves, longer scapes, and the orbicular (not ovate) upper corolla-lip. 



2 '.I. U. charoidea, Stapf. A floating, aquatic herb. Stolons 

 branched, very slender, hispidulous. Leaves all alike, '2-Q lin. apart, 

 3-5 lin. long, usually 2 -partite from the base or near it, rarely 3—5- 

 partite (with the lateral partitions smaller), dichotomously multifid, 

 hispidulous all over ; ultimate segments capillary, rarely more than 1 

 lin. long. Bladders rather numerous, up to 8 on a leaf, usually 

 from the forks of the leaf -divisions, pale green, obliquely ovoid, up 

 to 1 lin. long;, mouth sublateral, oblique, naked (?) ; stalk very short, 

 more or less lateral. Scapes lateral, 2-5 lin. long, very slender, 

 1 -flowered, glabrous, with an oblong-orbicular broad bract about the 

 middle, over \ lin. long. Sepals equal, broad-ovate, about 1 lin. long, 

 the lower emarginate. Corolla yellow, 3 lin. long; upper lip ovate,, 

 entire, over 1^ lin. long ; lower rotundate to subquadrate, 1J lin. long ; 

 palate large, raised, 2-gibbous ; spur broad-conic-obtuse, somewhat 

 longer than the lower lip. Pistil globose-ovoid, passing into the very 

 short style ; upper stigmatic-lip obscure; lower broad-ovate. Capsule 

 ellipsoid-ovoid, scarcely 1 lin. long ; perfect seeds very few, lenticular, 

 orbicular to elliptic-orbicular, about 4 lin. in diam., with a narrow 

 irregular wing all round ; testa delicately reticulate. Embryo lenticular. 

 — U. reflexa, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 146, partly ; Kam. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 110, partly. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : at the confluence of the Niger and Benue 

 Rivers, Barter ! 



Very marked by tbe hispidulous indumentum, the small flowers and capsules and., 

 the few, non-angular seeds. 



