76 baron ferdinand ton mueller. record of 



Utricularia Wallichiana ; 



Wight, icon. pi. Ind. orient. 1572, fig. 1. Oliver in the Journal 

 of the L. S. III., 182. Clarke in J. Hook. fl. of Brit. Ind. 332. 



Tall, annual, weak and often twining ; root rather short, its 

 fibres capillulary, much branched, scantily or hardly pitcher- 

 bearing ; leaves very small, from linear- to ovate-lanceolar, all 

 radical, never numerous, early perishing ; stems thinly filiform ; 

 racemes mostly elongated and flexuous, with generally distant 

 flowers ; bracts very short, ovate-lanceolar, without any basal 

 protraction ; pedicels spreading, about as long as the flowers or 

 even longer, finally towards the end dilated ; upper sepal rhom- 

 boid-orbicular, lower sepal orbicular-ovate ; corolla yellow, its 

 upper portion laterally recurved, roundish, slightly bilobed, its 

 lower portion somewhat longer, orbicular-rhomboid, undivided, 

 towards the centre bulging and more intensely coloured; posterior 

 protrusion subulate-conical, about as long as the upper segment ; 

 style very short ; fruit much shorter than the pedicel, ovate- 

 roundish, compressed, nearly as long as the calyx ; seeds almost 

 ovate, papillular-rough. 



Attaining, when twining, a height of 2 feet, and then quite of 

 the habit of U. volubilis ; when straight erect of less height. This 

 plant, for which I intended the name U. tortilis, does not seem to 

 require specific separation from the Indian plant, to which it is 

 now referred, but as it is new for Australia, a description is 

 furnished from Mr. Holtze's specimens. 



Among Australian congeners it differs from U. chrysantha, 

 which is not known ever to be conspicuously twining, already in 

 much longer pedicels, larger flowers, uncleft lower division of the 

 corolla, form of fruit and considerably larger seeds. From U. 

 Julva it is chiefly distinguished in seemingly always greater height, 

 again in elongated pedicels, in undotted lower division of the 

 corolla, in usually less slender and more acute posterior protraction 

 of the latter, and not globular fruit ; it is still more distant from 

 the Asiatic U. reticulata, although that species is likewise of 

 twisting growth, the colour of the corolla being yellow, never blue. 



Utricularia Singeriana. 



Annual, never tall, always glabrous ; root capillulary fibrous, 

 short, bearing rather conspicuous pitchers ; leaves very small, all 

 radical, from broad- to narrow-elliptic, but gradually passing into 

 the petiole, early perishing ; stem devoid of bracts, one-flowered \ 

 pedicel about as long as the calyx ; bracteoles minute, lanceolar- 

 deltoid, without any basal protraction ; upper sepal roundish- or 

 cordate-rhomboid, lower almost orbicular, occasionally somewhat 

 bilobed ; corolla large, on the surface throughout lilac-coloured, 



