494 xciv. lentibularie^e (stapf). [ITtricularia. 



30. U. diploglossa, Welwitsch ex Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 147. An amphibious herb, floating or terrestrial on spongy places by 

 rivers. Stolons up to \ ft. long, branched, sometimes matted into 

 cushions, very slender, glabrous. Leaves all alike, 1-3 lin. apart, 

 3-5-partite, 1—3 lin. long, divisions multifid ; ultimate segments 5-8, 

 capillary, glabrous, terminating with a short fine bristle. Bladders 

 very conspicuous, replacing a leaf-division or more often a basal seg- 

 ment 1 or 2 (rarely 3) with each leaf, obliquely ovoid, up to 2 lin. long, 

 often purple, mouth sublateral, delicately fimbriate, some of the fimbriae 

 often fused at the base, stalk very short. Scapes lateral, f— 1 lin. long, 

 slender, with a single, broad-oblong or elliptic, obtuse or emarginate 

 bract, 1 lin. long, 2-8 lin. below the flower. Sepals equal, ovate- 

 ■rotundate or broad-elliptic, obtuse, 1 lin. long. Corolla yellow, 4-4J 

 lin. long ; upper lip ovate, entire or crenulate at the apex, not quite 2 

 lin. long ; lower lip broad-rotundate, slightly and broadly 2-lobed, sides 

 deflexecl, 3-4 lin. long; palate large, slightly 2 -gibbous ; spur broadly - 

 <?onic, obtuse, 2|— 3 lin. long. Filaments linear, slightly over \ lin. 

 long ; anthers \ lin. long. Pistil passing gradually into the very short 

 style; upper stigmatic lip obscure ; lower rotundate. Mature capsule 

 and seeds unknown. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 786 ; Kam. in 

 End. Jahrb. xxxiii. 110, partly ; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 434. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; Morro de Lopollo, 5300 ft., Welwitsch, 271 ! 

 "banks of the River Monino, Welwitsch, 272 1) ! 

 Also in the Transvaal. 



31. U. cymbaiitlia, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 147. A very 

 delicate herb, floating or creeping on mud. Stolons capillary, branch- 

 ing, more or less matted, green, glabrous, minutely glandular. Leaves 

 all alike, about 1 lin. apart, forked from the base, divisions equal or un- 

 equal, entire or one of them forked again, up to J-1J- lin. long, capillary, 

 acute, glabrous. Bladders in the place of a leaf -division or a segment of 

 a division, obliquely ovoid, J lin. long, mouth sublateral, oblique, delicately 

 fimbriate, fimbria? unequal, longest sometimes branched, insertion of the 

 stalk sublateral. Scapes lateral, up to 4 lin. long, with a minute ovate 

 scale at the middle, erect when flowering, nodding when mature. Sepals 

 orbicular or depressed-orbicular, subequal ; upper \ lin. long, nerveless. 

 Corolla yellowish, about 1 lin. long ; upper lip very broad and short, 

 subtruncate ; lower lip sub-semicircular, broader than long, subcordate 

 at the base, slightly convex, mouth wide open ; spur very short, wide 

 saccate, subgibbous and glandular in front. Filaments linear, \ lin. 

 long ; anther i lin. long. Ovary globose-ovoid ; style distinct, as 

 long as the stigma; upper stigmatic-lip very small; lower ellipfcic- 

 rotundate ; ovules about 5 on a subglobose placenta. Seeds (not quite 

 mature) about 3, lenticular with a membranous wing all round, \ lin. in 

 diam. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 786. Biovularia cymbantha, 

 Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 113. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; shallow pools near Morro de Lopollo, 

 forming together with Algae spongy masses, Welwitsch, 272 ! 



The structure of the ovary, capsule and seeds is as in typical Utricnlaria, and 



