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16033*; ibid., massed on sunny seepage slopes, herb 5-15 cm. high, flowers 

 purple, with two yellow blotches on lower lip, 1500 m., June 5, 1946, 16237. 

 Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, scattered amongst short 

 grass on rocky seepage slopes, herb 5-10 cm. high, corolla purple, with two 

 yellow spots on lip, I860 m., June 26, 1946, 16432. Nyasaland and SW. Tangan- 

 yika Territory. 



Utricularia exilis Welw. ex Oliv. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9: 154. 1867. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, scattered on wet mossy 

 rocks on a grass slope, 3-5 cm. high, flowers purple with two yellow blotches 

 on lower lobe, 2140 m., June 27, 1946, 16469; ibid., commonly scattered on wet 

 mossy banks of a forest stream, herb 2-5 cm. high, flowers purple with two yellow 

 spots on lower lip, 1750 m., July 5, 1946, 16667. From the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 

 to Nyasaland and Angola; also in West Tropical Africa. 



Utricularia pentadactyla P. Taylor, sp. nov. 



U. ecklonii Spreng. af finis sed labio inferiore valde lobato et labio superiore 

 multo angustiore differt. 



Herba terrestris, erecta, gracilis, 8-12 cm. alta. Stolones filiformes, ramosi; 

 rhizoidea capillaria e pedunculi basi exorta. Folia pauca, secus stolones 

 dispersa, anguste cuneato-spathulata, usque 4 mm. longa et 1 mm. lata, margini- 

 bus minute papulosis, sensim in petiolum tenuem coartata. Utriculi stolonibus 

 affixi, ovoidei usque globosi, 0.5-1.0 mm. longi, bilabiati; labium superius 

 suborbiculare, inferius minimum, utrumque pilis glandulosis in lineis parallelis 

 dispositis ciliatum; utriculi stipes circiter 0.3 mm. Iongus, ori oppositus. 

 Pedunculus strictus vel leviter flexuosus, simplex, squamis minutis parce in- 

 structus, parte inferiore papilloso-hirsutus. 



Flores remoti, 2-4; bracteae et bracteolae subaequales, basifixae, lanceo- 

 latae, acuminatae, circiter 1 mm. longae; pedicelli bracteis aequilongi vel iis 

 paullo longiores. Sepala 2, subaequalia, concava, minute, papillosa; sepalum 

 superius suborbiculare, circiter 1.5 mm. longum, integrum, inferius ovatum, usque 



2 mm. longum, integrum vel emarginatum. Corolla caduca, e calcaris apice usque 

 ad labii superioris apicem 5-6 mm. longa. Labium superius flavidum, minute 

 papillosum, dimidio basali ovatum, dimidio superiore anguste elongato-cucullatum, 

 apice emarginato inflexo, 3-3.5 mm. longum, basi 1.5 mm. latum, apice 0.5 mm. 

 latum. Labium inferius purpureum, circiter 4 mm. longum et 4 mm. latum, in lobos 



3 primarios divisum, lobo central i iterum alte trifido, lobis incurvatis; lobus 

 centralis quam laterales longior et latior. Palatum flavidum, antice visum ut 

 videtur truncatum, leviter 3 -gibbosum, minute papillosum. Calcar flavidum, sat 

 tenue, conicum, labio inferiori ± parallelum, incurvatum, circiter 4 mm. longum, 

 apice leviter emarginatum vel integrum, minute papillosum. Antherae 0.8 mm. 

 longae; filamenta inflexa, antheris ± aequilonga, alata, usque 0.25 mm. lata. 

 Ovarium ovoideum; stigma fere sessile, bilabiatum, labio inferiore late ovato, 

 labio superiore multo minore ovato basi angustato. Capsula globosa, circiter 2 mm. 

 diametro. Semina minuta, ovoidea vel pyriformia, minutissime reticulata, circiter 

 0.25 mm. longa. 



NYASALAND: Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, in shelter 

 of grass edging seepage-wet rocks, herb 1.5-10 cm. high, lower lip purple with 

 yellow pulvinus, apex of spur purple, other flower parts yellow, 1860 m., June 

 26, 1946, 16433*. Mlanje Mountain, damp rocks in alpine pasture zone, corolla 

 purple, 1650 m., June 1937, Thomas s.n. (Herb. Mus. Brit.). 



SOUTHERN RHODESIA: Salisbury District: Dombashawa, by rill over granite, 

 stem erect or somewhat geniculate, lower lip purple, palate and rest of flower 



