366 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Cheistisonia Scoetechinii, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 LXXIII. 2. 205. Stem short hypogseal, covered with Hnear scales. 

 Flowers 3 to 8, crowded in a dense corymb ; some shortly peduncled, 

 others sessile, each with an oblong cucuUate basal bract -75 in. long ; 

 all parts loaded with sticky mucilage. Calyx spathaceous, rupturing 

 into usually 2 (sometimes, fide Scortechini, into 2 to 4) lobes, in the 

 fully opened flower with tube 1 in., lobes "25 in. long. Corolla-tube 

 white, with a yellow line inside in front, 2 in. long, infundibuliform 

 and curved above, the lower part narrow-cylindric 1 in. long ; limb 

 2-labiate, upper lip outmost in bud, erect, 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, 

 spreading. Stamens didynamous ; anthers all conniving ; filaments 

 glabrous, inserted below middle of corolla-tube, 1-celled, adnate to the 

 enlarged filament, upper pair without, lower with an empty oblong 

 pointed cell. Dish 0. Ovary glabrous, 1-celled, placentas 2, 2-fid, 

 uniformly covered with ovules ; style glabrous downwards ; stigma 

 peltate, flat, "2 in. in diam. 



Peeak : Scortechini, 2121 ! 



Order LXXXV. LENTIBULAEIACE^. 



[By D. Prain.] 



Marsh or aquatic herbs, or occasionally growing on wet rocks. 

 Leaves radical, rosulate or when submerged capillary-multifid, some- 

 times obsolete. Floivers irregular, hermaphrodite, on 1-many-flowered 

 simple or branched scapes ; bracts small, sometimes ; bracteoles 

 under calyx 2 or 0. Calyx inferior, 2-5-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped and 

 spurred; upper lip usually the smaller, entire or emarginate ; lower lip 

 3-6-lobed. Stamens 2, adnate to the base of the corolla, alternate with 

 the lobes of the lower lip ; filaments widely curving, anther-cells ovate, 

 transversely confluent ; dehiscence longitudinal. Carpels 2, connate in 

 a superior, globose, 1-eelled ovary ; ovules very many, on a free basal 

 placenta ; style short ; stigma unequally 2-lobed. Fruit a globose 

 2-4-valved, or irregularly rupturing capsule. Seeds very many, minute ; 

 albumen 0. — Disteib. Species nearly 200, in all parts of the world. 



Utriculaeia, Linn. 



Herbs, often very small, submerged or floating, or growing on wet 

 rocks. Leaves in submerged or floating species multifid, with capillary 

 segments, in erect or twining species entire, often disappearing at time 

 of flowering, frequently with minute bladders. Floioers on simple or 

 bi-anched scapes, racemes few- or many-flowered ; bracts and 2 bracteoles 



