788 xc. LENTIBULAEIACE/B. [Utricularia 



always strictly erect although -weak ; corolla deep purple ; palate 

 yellow-velvety. In spongy places by streams throughout the Lopollo 

 country, appearing soon after the spring rains, at an elevation of 6000 

 to 6200 ft., plentiful ; fl. and fr. 26 to 30 Oct. 1859. No. 266. 



13. U. Welwitschii Oliv., I.e., p. 152. 



HuiLLA. — Scape constantly flexuous on the fruiting portion ; leaves 

 loosely rosulate, elongate-spathulate, rarely surviving on the plant in 

 flower ; calyx-lobes yellowish, margined with red, obtuse, somewhat 

 denticulate on the lower part ; corolla yellow ; both the upper and low 

 lips purplish ; the palate orange in colour ; the spur livid-purple, 

 conical, acute, bent forwards and upwards. In swampy pastures, 

 tolerably plentiful about Lopollo, in company with various species of 

 Eriocaulon ; fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 263. 



14. U. firmula Welw. ex Oliv., I.e., p. 152. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual herblet ; scape erect, simple or bifid, 

 comparatively firm ; leaves radical, rosulate, obovate-spathulate ; upper 

 lip of the corolla yellowish, bilobed ; the lower lip orange-coloured ; 

 the palate deep orange-red ; anthers didymous-constricted. la a damp 

 wooded place among short grasses, near Sansamanda, on the right 

 bank of the river Cuanza, in company with Isoetes cequinoctialis, rather 

 rare and seen only in one place ; fl. and fr. 1 May 1857. No. 262. 



This is not identical with U. WaUichiaiia Wight (y.firnnila), Oliv., 

 Lc, iii. p. 182 (1859). 



15. U. sanguinea Oliv., I.e., p. 153. 



HtriLLA. — Leaves spathulate, somewhat fleshy, brittle ; flowers very 

 bright blood-red purple. In swampy pastures and also in damp fields 

 neglected after cultivation about LopoUo, at an elevation of about 

 6000 ft., very plentiful ; fl. and fr. from Feb. to April 1860. No. 259. 



16. IT. exilis Oliv., I.e., p. 154. 



Htjilla. — An annual herblet ; rhizome very tender, whitish, rooting; 

 leaves spathulate-lingulate, somewhat fleshy, arranged in a rosette at 

 the base of the scape or at each node of the rhizome ; scape 1 to 2 in. 

 high, 1- to 3-flowered, capillary, straight, dusky purple, simple or very 

 rarely with 1 or 2 branchlets ; calyx-segments broadly ovate-elUptical ; 

 corolla sometimes quite white, sometimes more or less violet-purplish ; 

 the upper lip somewhat emarginate or shortly bifid, erect, yellowish, 

 the lower lip gibbous and yellowish in the disk, which is almost 

 quadrate and marked with 3 or 4 deep purple transverse lines on each 

 side, reflected and violet-purple or white on the circumference ; spur 

 horizontal, ascending at the apex, pale purple. In pastures flooded by 

 the spring and autumn rains at length drying up and somewhat spongy, 

 on the Humpata plateau, at elevations of 4800 and 6000 feet, very 

 plentiful, in company with species of Xyris, Eriocaulon lacteum Bendle 

 ("Welw. Herb. 2452), Cyperacese, and Isoetes ; fl. 21 March and fr. end 

 of March 1860. No. 253. A weak, terrestrial herb ; leaves radical, 

 narrowly spathulate ; scape 1-or 2- flowered, 1 to 2 inches high, smooth, 

 erect ; calyx-segments broad ; corolla white, the upper lip incumbent 

 on the margin of the reflected broadly obcordate lower lip ; spur 

 straight, conical, obtuse ; capsule globose, apiculate. In moist bushy 

 sandy flooded places on the point of drying up, between Lopollo and 

 the river Erne ; fl. and fr. middle of April 1860. No. 252. It also 

 occurred about Lagoa de Quibinda on watery mud, in company with 

 Eotala mexicana subsp. Hiernicma ; see ante, p. 371. 



