498 xciv. lentibularie^e (stapf). [Genlisea. 



ovate, submarginate, 2\ lin. long ; lower lip 3-lobed, over 3 lin. long ; 

 palate slightly 2-gibbous, much raised ; spur cylindric from a conic base, 

 truncate, glandular-puberulous, very slightly shorter than the lower lip. 

 Filaments broad-linear, under 1 lin. long ; anthers \ lin. long. Ovary 

 densely glandular-puberulous. Capsule globose, 2 lin. in cliam., glan- 

 dular-puberulous. Seeds more or less globose-ellipsoid, \ lin. long. — 

 Hiern in Oat. Air. PI. Welw. i. 789 ; Ivam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 92, 

 partly. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; marshy places by the Lopollo River, 5000- 

 5200 ft., Welwitsch, 260 ! 260& ! Humpata; Chella Mountains, Johns ton 1 near the 

 Cunene River, Johnston .' 



2. G. hispidula, Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Gap. iv. ii. 437. Leaves 

 numerous ; blades obovate-spathulate, 3|--7 lin. long, 2-3^ lin. broad, 

 gradually passing into the long whitish petiole, 4-15 lin. long. 

 Utricles on sometimes very long stalks (up to 10 lin.) ; tube 7-8 

 lin. long ; twisted arms over 10 lin. long. Peduncle erect, straight or 

 flexuous, simple or branched, up to 1 ft. high, quite glabrous or with 

 a few spreading bristles in the upper part. Raceme 3-5-flowered \ 

 flowers remote ; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, \\ lin. 

 long, more or less minutely hispidulous, lowest bracts barren ; pedicels 

 filiform, 3-5 lin. long in flower, at length up to 10 lin. long, more or 

 less hispid with yellow bristles, particularly in the upper part, rarely 

 glabrous. Calyx-segments lanceolate, subacuminate or acuminate, sub- 

 equal, 1^-2 lin. long, minutely hispidulous. Corolla purple with yellow 

 spots on the palate, 4-5 lin. long ; upper lip ovate, obtuse, If lin. long ; 

 lower lip 2| lin. long, 3-lobed ; lobes short and broad, almost equal, 

 scarcely undulate ; palate much raised, lower than the upper lip, 

 scarcely gibbous ; spur cylindric from a moderately widened base, 3^ 

 lin. long, obtuse or truncate, sparingly and very minutely hispidulous. 

 Filaments curved, very unequally widened upwards, not quite \ lin. 

 long ; anthers -| lin. long. Ovary densely pubescent above the glabrous 

 base. Capsule more or less hairy in the upper part, globose, up to 2 lin. 

 in diam., distinctly circumscissile. Seeds obliquely ovoid or almost 

 triangular in profile, up to J lin. long. Embryo subhippocrepiform. — 

 G. africana, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiii. 175 (the Magalisberg 

 specimen) ; Kam. in Engl/ Jahrb. xxxiii., 92, partly. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa ; Nyasaland ; Mount Zomba, 4000- 

 6000 ft., Whyte! 



Also in South Africa. 



3. P. sub glabra, Stapf. Leaves rather numerous ; blades more 

 or less obovate-cuneate, 4-6 lin. long, up to 3 lin. broad, gradually 

 passing into the slender petiole, up to 6 lin. long. Utricles unknown. 

 Scape erect, filiform, simple or very sparingly branched, glabrous, with 

 a few remote barren bracts in the lower part ; raceme 3-5- flowered ; 

 flowers remote ; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 1 lin. long, 

 glabrous like the similar, but narrower bracteoles ; pedicels filiform, 

 obliquely erect, up to 5 lin. long, quite glabrous or sparingly puberulous- 



