780 ; BENGAL PLANTS. [ Utricularia. 
Leaves submerged, divided into capillary segments, mostly interspersed 
with bladders; stems floating, if rooting in mud (U. exoleta sometimes 
and the multifid capillary leaves absent, the capsule globose 
Peduncles bearing a whorl of oblong vesicles about the middle — 
Flowers yellow stellaris 
owers white with violet stripes stellaris var. ai 
Peduncles naked or with a few obscure scales ; corolla yellow 
Peduneles rather et ~ of corolla not longer than beet lip ; 
flowers 3-8, fro: 3- “en cross flexuosa 
Peduncles he spur of corolla rather longer than lower lip; 
wers 1-3, onl duing watcns exoleta. 
Law at base of scape linear or spathulate, often disappearing before 
flowering ; stem rooted in mud, if growing running water, and at 
times emitting a few capillary leaves with bladders, the capsule not 
globose :— 
Scales of the scape tel bracts attached by their bases :— 
Flowers blue or 
Scapes sacha mie pedicelled :— 
Seapes straight; calyx-lobes acute ...... reticulata var. uliginosa. 
Scapes very slender, twining ; calyx-lobes obtuse ......, scandens 
Scapes hairy; flowers subsessile 
Flowers yellow :— 
Scapes straight ; pedicels in fruit recurved ; calyx-lobes obtuse 
bifida. 
Scapes slender, often twining; pedicels in fruit suberect ; calyx- 
lobes acute Wallichiana. 
Seales of the scape and bracts produced a below their “ of 
attachment; flowers blue or sometimes white racemosa 
1472. UrricunLaRIA sTELLARIS Linn. f.; F. I. i. 143; F. B. I. 
iv. 828. 
In all the provinces. 
A floating herb, with submerged leaves, the scapes alone 
rising from the surface of ponds and ditches. Beng. 
Jhangi. 
1472/2. Var. inFitexa; F. B. I. iv. 329. 
In most of the central and eastern parts. 
i the 
type. 
1473. Urricutarta FLExvosa Vahl; F.B.I. iv. 329. U. fascicu- 
vinces. 
A floating herb, much like but always more plentiful 
