496 xciv. LENTiBtJLARiEiE (stapf). [Utricularia. 



long, rarely longer ; bracts membranous, broad-obovate, truncate or 

 rounded, J lin. long, lowest 1 or 2 often barren; bracteoles ; pedicels 

 finely filiform, permanently obliquely erect, of very unequal length, the 

 longest up to 4 lin. long. Sepals equal, orbicular-elliptic, up to 1 lin. 

 long, membranous, scarcely enlarging after flowering. Corolla yellow,. 

 2^-3 lin. long ; upper lip ovate-rotundate, entire or subentire, 1-li lin. 

 \on<* ; lower lip subquadrate, 1^ lin. long, slightly 2-lobed or almost 

 entire ; palate much raised, obscurely 2-gibbous, minutely papillose,, 

 margin spreading or deflexed ; spur conic, obtuse, spreading, as long as 

 or somewhat longer than the lower lip. Filaments curved, dilated up- 

 wards, h Hn. long ; anthers ellipsoid, J lin. long. Ovary subglobose , 

 style very short, but distinct ; upper stigma-lobe obscure ; lower rotun- 

 date. Capsule globose, 1-2 lin. in diam. ; seeds numerous, lenticular, 

 i lin. in diam., with a thin corky or transparent, somewhat irregular, and 

 often eroded wing around the margin, hilum excentric. Embryo lenti- 

 cular, slightly emarginate, undifferentiated. — DC. Prodr. viii. 7 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, iv. 526 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 329 ; Aschers. 

 in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. iv. 404 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. Suppl. 339 ; Batt. & 

 Trab. Fl. Alg. i. 718; Coss. 111. Fl. Atl. 100, t. 162; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL 

 Welw. i. 786 ; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 112 ; Goebel in Ann. Jard. 

 Bot. Buitenz. ix. 91-97 ; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii, 435. U. diantha, 

 Boem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. Mant. i. 169; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 256 ; 

 Wight, Ic. PI. t. 1569 ; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soe. hi. 176, & ix. 147, not 

 of DC. U. ambigua, DC. I.e. 9. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Liinba; Makunde, Scott-jEUiot, 5718 ! Lagos- 

 Island, Barter, 20212 ! 



Tffile Lend. Abyssinia: Bays of Lake Tsana, Sc7dmper, 1450 ! and without 

 precise locality, Schimper, 1449 ! G;dlabat : near Matamma, ScJiiveinfurth, 2582 / 

 Soudan : Ghabat el Arab, Broivn 1 Meshera, SchweinfurtJi, 1249 ! 



lower Guinea. Loango : Chinchocho; in a stream near Calowe, Soyaux, 

 173 ! Angola : Icolo e Bengo ; floating in Lake Funda, Welivitsch, 267 ! Barro do 

 Dande ; floating or growing on damp mud near the River Dande and the lakes of 

 Bombo, Welwitsch, 267b ! Benguella ; Chihinde, Baum, 41 ! German South-west 

 Africa : Damaraland ; Grootfontein, Dinter, 678 ! 



Mozamb. JJist. German East Africa : Ugalla River, Bohm, 77 ! Lake 

 Tanganyika, at the mouth of the Malagarazi River, Cunnington, 811 ! British 

 Central Africa : Urunguj Abercorn, Carson! 



Also in South Africa, Algiers, Portugal, and from India to China and Australia. 



Imperfectly known species. 



34. U. incerta, Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 111. A floating, 

 aquatic herb. Stolons very long, branched, filiform, to over J lin. thick, 

 glabrous. Leaves 2|— 3J lin. apart, usually forked from or from near 

 the base, up to over 1 in. long, rays up to \ lin. broad at the base, 

 elegantly 2-pinnate, ovate-oblong to oblong in outline ; pinna? up to 

 2^ (rarely 3) lin. long; ultimate segments toothed, filiform, and minutely 

 setulose. 



Nile land. Soudan; Bahr el Ghazal, SchweinfurtJi, iii. 86 ! 



