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4| mm. long. Flowers bright yellow, attaining about 2 cm. 

 across ; pedicels each with a bract at the base, 3-6 times as 

 long as the calyx, not reflexed after flowering. Calyx about 

 4 mm. long, persistent ; sepals entire, sub-many-veined, con- 

 cave ; the upper sepal oval, shortly projecting and acutish 

 at the apex; the lower sepal scarcely shorter, oval-elliptical, 

 bifid at the apex. Corolla : upper lip erect, much exceeding 

 the palate in length, broad-ovate ; lower lip descending- 

 patent, much broader, semiorbicular ; palate semi-sphaerical, 

 about 7 mm. across, 4 mm. high, truncate or retuse at the 

 top, yellow with fulvous veiny irregular lines ; spur shorter or 

 slightly so than the lower corolla-lip, conical, obtuse or acutish 

 at the tip, nearly horizontal, scarcely arcuate upwards. 

 Stamens 2, erect, 2 mm. long ; filament stout, curved below ; 

 anther rounded. Pistil shorter than the calyx ; ovary glo- 

 bose, smooth, 1| mm. across ; style stout, straight ; stigma 

 dilated, orbiculate, ciliated, 1 mm. long and wide. Ovules 

 numerous, minute. Fruit unknown. 



Nora. Jap. Tanuki-mo. 



Hah. JAPAN. 



Common. This species is very closely allied to IJtricularia 

 vulgaris Linn., from which it differs chiefly by its much exceed- 

 ing upper corolla-lip, long stem, leaves with more numerous 

 bladders, tapering leaf-segments, want of the tufts of cilia at 

 the sinus of the leaf-segments. Flower rather resembles that 

 of U. neglecta Lehm. which is not found in Japan. 



(To he continued.) 



