786 xc. LENTiBULARiACE^. [^Utricularia 



long ; upper lip orbicular, entire ; lower obscurely 2- to 3- 

 <!renate ; spur as long as the Iswer lip. 



HlTiLLA.— Flowers orange-yellow. At the muddy shore of the great 

 lake of Ivantfila where the river Cacolovar takes its rise, at an elevation 

 about 4000 ft. ; fl. end of Feb. 1860. No. 270. 



4. U. exoleta Br. Prodr. p. 430 (1810). 



U. diantha Schult. Mant. i. p. 169 (1822) ; Oliv., I.e., p. 147 ; 

 non Alph. DC. 



ICOLO E Bengo. — Floating, densely csespitose ; flowers small, pale 

 yellow. In Lagoa da Funda, not far from the river Bengo, plentiful 

 but not then seen elsewhere ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 267- 



Baera do Dande. — A tender, amphibious herblet, sometimes float- 

 ing with a much branched rhizome laden with small bladders, sometimes 

 growing on the damp mud with an abbreviated rhizome and without 

 any bladders ; flowers deep yellow. At the margins of the river 

 Dande and in neighbouring lakes near Bombo, sparingly ; fl. and 

 young fr. Sept. 1868. No. 2676. 



5. TJ. diploglossa Welw. ex Oliv., I.e., p. 147. 



HuiLLA. — Annual, amphibious, sometimes floating, sometimes 

 terrestrial, with its rhizome and branches bearing crowded bladders 

 and aggregated in the form of cushions ; the bladders blackish green 

 or livid purple, large in proportion to the size of the plant, com- 

 pressedly ovoid, ramentaccous at the top ; scape scarcely an inch long, 

 bibracteolate in the middle, 1-flowered, erect at the time of flowering, 

 bent downwards in fruit ; corolla yellow, moderate in size ; the upper 

 lip 2- or 3-crenulate at the apex, not bifid ; the lower lip longer than 

 and twice as broad as the upper, bent downwards, sub-entire and 

 reflected on the margin, as well as the broadly conical obtuse spur 

 furnished beneath with thin scattered hairs ; the palate very large 

 and prominent ; anthers inserted on the filaments below the apex. In 

 spongy places by streams and in still bays of the streams, in Morro 

 -de LopoUo, at an elevation of 6300 ft., plentiful ; fl. and fr. middle 

 of May 1860. No. 271. At the banks of the river Monino. A more 

 ■densely caaspitose form. No. 2716. 



6. XJ. cymbantha Oliv., I.e., p. 147. 



HuiLLA. — Corolla pale yellow or straw-coloured, small. Sometimes 

 floating, sometimes terrestrial, in rather shallow pools and covered 

 with various species of Algse, creeping along mud and foriuing broad 

 spongy patches ; in the more elevated wooded parts of Morro de 

 liopoUo, seen nowhere else ; fl. April 1860. No. 272. 



This is the plant referred to as U. ecalearata in Journ. Bot. xxxv. 

 pp. 38, 77, 78, 79, 81, 86, 87, and cf. p. 146 (1897) ; it formed a harbour 

 for the following fresh-water silgsB : n. 179 ; Mougeotia (sp.), Pcnium 

 •(sp.), P. variolatum West, P. minutum Oleve, Docidium trigeminiferum 

 West, Tetmemonis granulatus Balfs, Micrasterias arcuata Bail., var. 

 ■subpinmatifida West, and M. tropica; Nordst., var. crassa West. 



7. TJ. subulata L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 18 (1753) ; Oliv., I.e., p. 148. 

 HuiLLA. — An annual insignificant little herb ; leaves radical, 



spathulate-lingulate, greatly attenuate at the base ; scapes few- 

 flowered, setiform ; pedicels spreading-divaricate ; flowers yellow ; 

 capsules globose, red, resembling the sporogonia of mosses. In damp 

 . pastures near Fmpalanca, on the Humpata plateau, in mossy places 



