Utneularia^ xc. lbntibulariace^. 787 



among low bushes, at an elevation of 5500 ft. ; fl. and fr. beginning 

 of April 1860. No. 257. 



8. U. reticulata Sm. Exot. Bot. ii. p. 119, t. 119 (1 Jan. 1808); 

 Oliv., Ic, p. 149. 



HuiLLA. — A terrestrial marsh herb ; root fibrous, the fibres very 

 slender ; scape filiform, twining, 1 to 14 ft. high, 2-flowered ; flowers 

 larger than usual, the largest among tne Huilla species, deep blue 

 verging on purple ; the spur descending, acuminate, but little curved 

 forwards. In marshy somewhat spongy meadows on the left bank of 

 the river Quipumpunhime, in Sobato de Humpata, at an elevation of 

 4800 ft., very rare ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 266. 



9. 11. prehensilis E. Mey. Oomm. PI. Afr. Austr. p. 282 (1837); 

 Oliv., l.c , p. 150, excl. var. 



Huilla. — An annual herblet ; rhizome c%spitose, slender, whitish, 

 brittle, bearing little bladders and also leaves ; leaves rather erect, 

 lanceolate or Ungulate, attenuate at the long base into the petiole, not 

 uncommonly ending at the apex in a little bladder and there rooting ; 

 scapes 3 to 5 in. long, erect, usually aggregated, 1 to 3 together, 2- to 

 6-flowered ; flowers safEron-yellow, the upper lip of the corolla some- 

 what emarginate at the apex, erect, appendaged at the base on each 

 side at the insertion of the lower lip with a short pyramidal tooth ; 

 the lower lip obcordate, patent, deeply marked with four channels on 

 the disk, gibbose-crested ; spur conical, somewhat curved forwards. 

 In swampy spongy wooded places in the highest pastures of the 

 Humpata plateau, and in Morro de LopoUo at an elevation of about 

 5400 ft., in company with Xyris and Lycopodiaoese ; fl. and fr. 

 beginning of April 1860. No. 261. 



10. IT. andongensis Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



U. prehensilis E. Mey., var. p parviflora Oliv., I.e., p. 150. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual, elegant herblet ; rhizome bearing 

 little bladders and intermixed with mosses and liverworts; leaves 

 broadly linear or lanceolate-linear, obtuse, thinly fleshy, yellowish 

 green ; scapes erect, branched ; flowers yellowish, unicolorous. In 

 a swampy place at the banks of the rivulet CasalaM in the rugged part 

 of Pedra Songue in the praesidium, rare and observed only in one spot ; 

 fl. and fr. Feb., March, and April 1857. No. 264. 



This is not identical with U. parviflora Br. 



11. U. tortilis Welw. ex Oliv., I.e., p. 150. 



Huilla. — Terrestrial ; fibres of the root whitish, branched, some- 

 what fleshy ; the branches sub-compressed, here and there terminating 

 in little bladders ; scape filiform, 2J to 6 in. long, spirally twining round 

 the stems of Cyperace», 1- to 4-flowered ; corolla yellowish ; the upper 

 lip entire, longitudinally purple-striate ; the lower lip sub-entire, yellow 

 at the gibbosity, whitish-yellowish at the circumference ; the posterior 

 lobe of the stigma wanting or obsolete ; capsule quite covered by the 

 calyx when nearly ripe. In marshy spongy places in Morro de Lopollo, 

 among short grasses {Panicum myosvroides Br., etc.), always in company 

 with mucilaginous algae and even growing upon them ; fl. and young 

 fr. 9 May 1860. No. 258. 



12. TJ. linarioides Welw. ex Oliv., I.e., p. 151. 



Huilla. — In habit remarkably resembling some Portuguese species 

 of Linaria ; leaves radical, obovate-spathulate ; petiole long ; scape 



