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long. Seeds thickly discoid, nicargin thin, incurved towards the concave 

 face, usually 5-6-angled. Bl. Bijdr. 739; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 24; 

 Oliv. Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 175 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 329 ; 

 Eidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 10. U. australis, E. Br. Prod. 430; 

 A. DC. Prod. VIII. 6. U. fasciculata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 143 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1499 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 7 ; Wight Ic. t. 1568 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. Suppl. 246. U. confer vifolia, Don Prod. 84; A. DC. Prod. 

 VIII. 8. U. incequalis, Benj. Linnaea XX. 304. U. Bluniei, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 994. U. extensa, Hance in Walp. Ann. III. 3. 



Malacca : Ridley ! Pahang : Kwala Pahang, Bidley ! Peeak : 

 Scortechini ! Durian S. Batang, King's Collector 1036! Sikgapgee : 

 Bidley 5642, 9844 ! Kedah : Langkawi, Curtis ! — Disteib. S.E. Asia, 

 N. Australia. 



Forma gracilis, Oliv. Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 175 {= U. incequalis, 

 Benj.) more slender in all its parts and with smaller paler yellow 

 flowers. 



SiNGAPOEE : King's Collector 1165! Hullett 86! 385! Malacca: 

 Gumiiig ! Good eiwitgh 14:07 I Bidley! Peov. Wellesley: Bidley I 



The very similar and nearly allied U. stellaris, distinguished most easily by the 

 presence of a cluster of oblong vesicles about the middle of the peduncle, has not been 

 reported so far from the Malayan Peninsula. 



King's Collector's field-note on the slender form, which the wi'iter agrees with Oliver 

 in considering no more than a form of U. flexuosa, is as follows : "Herbaceous plant, 

 in clear pools of fresh water ; colour bright green. Flowers pale yellow. I sent a 

 similar one from Durian S. Batang, but I don't think the same." His field-note on 

 genuine U. flexuosa is as follows : " Growing in muddy pools of water ; colour a dark 

 reddish-brown, tinged with green; flower bright yellow." 



In his interesting paper on the Vtricularias of the Malay Peninsula (Journ. Bot. 

 for 1895, pp. 10, 11) Mr. Ridley gives as localities for U. flexuosa Pahang and Kedah, 

 Langkawi, but does not diii'erentiate the two forms. The leaves, he remarks, are used 

 in medicine by the Malays, who call it Lumut Ekor Kuching (Cat's Tail Moss) or Lumut 

 Ekor Kuning (Yellow Tail Moss). 



3. Uteiculaeia punctata, Wall. Cat. 2121. A floating water- 

 weed, with submerged divided capillary leaves, the segments interspersed 

 with bladders, often with narrow, oblong, floating vesicles 1 to 3 in. 

 long, beset with capillary leaves, near the base of the scapes. Scapes 

 4 to 12 in., usually many-flowered; pedicels slender, ascending or 

 sub-erect in fruit, ultimately "5 to '6 in. long ; bracts ovate, more or less 

 acute, slightly produced beyond base ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 2-lobed, 

 lobes sub-equal, ovate-rotund, obtuse, -1 in. long. Corolla blue, reddish- 

 purple or pink, -25 in. across, spur somewhat longer than lower calyx- 

 lobe, shorter than lower lip of corolla, thick, sub-cyhndric, obtuse. 

 Capsule thin, ovate-oblong, obtuse, -2 in. long. Seeds discoid, peltate, 



