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below reddish-brown, its upper portion obovate-cuneate, truncate 

 or slightly bilobed ; its lower portion hardly longer, from rhomboid- 

 to renate-semiorbicular, posterior protraction nearly or fully as 

 long as the other portions of the corolla, but paler, broadish-conical, 

 blunt, its orifice ciliolated ; filaments about as long as the anthers; 

 pollen-grains pale ; style very short ; ovulary roundish ; ovules 

 very numerous. 



Stein solitary, usually 4 to 6 inches high, unbranched, not very 

 thin. Corolla dark-coloured when dried, larger than that of any 

 other Australian species, somewhat exceeding even that of the 

 large-flowered state of U. dichotoma, but far from rivalling with 

 that of U. mo7ita7ta (of Jacquin, the U. alpina of Linnaeus, which 

 however seems to be nowhere truly alpine). 



A well marked species, which in the systematic series would 

 find its place best near U. dichotoma. This rare and beautiful 

 plant has been dedicated to Professor Dr. J. Singer, the Director 

 of the Royal Botanic Society of Ratisbon, at a time when that 

 eldest of all Botanic Societies celebrated its centenary jubilee, he 

 having for nearly twenty years been the leading administrator of 

 the affairs of this celebrated union and thus also the editor of the 

 Ratisbon " Botanische Zeitung," he having furnished already in 

 1865 a " Flora Ratisbonensis," It may not be out of place, to 

 remember here, that forty-two years ago the writer of these lines 

 had dedicated the Phyllanthus Fuernrohrii to the distinguished 

 predecessor of Prof. Singer. The " Botanisches Taschenbuch," a 

 periodical initiated actually by Prof. Hoppe, the predecessor of 

 Furnrohr, commenced precisely one hundred years ago. 



This new species differs from its nearest ally, the U. dichotoma, 

 in bracts not turgid at the base, in greater size or the corolla, 

 with a different colouration and a very much larger upper segment; 

 the fruit when known will likely also prove very different. 



Incidentally it may here be observed, that Mr. Holtze from 

 fresh specimens notes the corolla of U. leptoplectra as mauve- 

 coloured on the surface and as salmon-coloured below ; the nearly 

 bisected lower portion of the corolla with its almost dimidiate- 

 ovate segments is quite remarkable ; the fruit, now obtained, is 

 globular, extends considerably beyond the calyx, and measures 

 nearly \ inch ; fully matured seeds are not yet known. U. 

 chrysantha has extremely minute seeds, almost truncate-ellipsoid, 

 subtle-streaked, shining and yellowish. U. fulva has been sent 

 from near waterfalls of the Elizabeth and Edith Rivers by Mr. 

 Foelsche. Several of our Utricularias occur exceptionally with 

 white corollas, for instance, U. dichotoma and U. cyanea. 



Aneilema vaginatum ; 

 R. Brown, prodr. fl. Nov. Holl. 127 (Annotation); Kunth, enum. 

 IV., 67 ; Wight, icon, plant, Ind. or. VI., t. 2076 ; Hasskarl, 



