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twining, thin, 6 to 8 in. long. Leaves linear-spathulate, absent at time 

 of flowering ; bladders not seen. Flowers small, racemose or sub- 

 spicate at ends of stems ; pedicels sometimes absent, sometimes up 

 to '25 in. long ; bracts lanceolate, acute, basifixed. Calyx-lobes ovate, 

 acute, "15 in. long, in fruit -2 in. long. Corolla yellow ; upper lip 

 obovate, lower rounded, -2 in. wide ; spur straight or slightly incurved, 

 •2 in. long. CajJStde sub-globose, enclosed within calyx-lobes, upraised 

 on the sub-erect fruiting pedicels. Seeds ellipsoid, scrobiculate but not 

 glochidiate or papillose. Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 182 ; Clarke 

 in Hook, f . Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 332 ; Eidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 11. 

 U. scandens, Benj. in Linngea XX. 309 chiefly. U. macrolepis, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1580, fig. 2. fide Clarke. U. capillacea, Thw. Enum. 171 {not of 

 Oliv.). 



Malacca : Mount Ophir, at 4,000 feet elevation, growing among 

 grasses, Ridley ! — Distbib. Throughout India. 



8. Uteigulaeia involvens, Eidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 11. A 

 tufted herb forming mats of leaves on rocks in streams ; stems twining, 

 fairly stout, 12 in. long. Leaves thinly membranous, spathulate-linear, 

 obtuse, 1 in. long or longer, -1 in. across. Flowers large, racemed at 

 ends of stems; pedicels -5 to '75 in. long; bracts lanceolate, acute, 

 basifixed, "1 in. long. Calyx-lobes oblong-ovate, -25 in. long. Corolla 

 lemon-yellow ; upper lip obovate, lower rounded, 2-lobed, '35 in. wide ; 

 spur straight, pendulous, acute or acuminate, "25 in. long. Capsule 

 unknown. 



Kedah : Kedah Peak (Gunong Jerai), at 3,000 feet elevation, in 

 streams and wet places, Bidley ! 



A very fine and remarkably distinct species. 



9. Uteigulaeia veetigillata, Benj. Linnaea XX. 312. A slender 

 erect weed of wet places. Leaves at time of flowering and not seen ; 

 roots fibrous, bladders not seen. Scapes slender, sometimes capillary, 

 rigid, branched, 3 to 10 in. long, glabrous ; beset with a few ovate 

 scales or empty bracts, acute at both ends and produced downwards 

 beyond point of insertion ; pedicels capillary, puberulous, '2 in. long in 

 flower, in fruit -25 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles produced below point 

 of insertion. Calyx 2-lobed, lobes sub-equal, sub-orbicular, in fruit -1 in. 

 long. Corolla (? yellow) -15 in. wide ; spur wide-cylindric, slightly 

 exceeding lower lip of corolla. Capsule globose, "15 in. in diam., 

 projecting beyond the closely adpressed calyx-lobes. Seeds minute, 

 with sub-hexagonal reticulations. Oliv. Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 184 ; 

 Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 333; Eidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 10. 

 U. bifida, Wight Ic. t. 1584, f. 2 (7iot of Linn.). 



