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Christisonia Scortechinii, Prain in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. 
LXXIII. 2. 205. Stem short hypogaeal, covered with linear scales. 
Flowers 3 to 8, crowded in a dense corymb ; some shortly peduncled, 
others sessile, each with an oblong cucullate basal bract -75 in. long ; 
all parts loaded with sticky mucilage. Calyx spathaceous, rupturing 
into usually 2 (sometimes, fide Scortechini, into 2 to 4) lobes, in the 
fully opened flower with tube 1 in., lobes '25 in. long. Corolla-tube 
white, with a yellow line inside in front, 2 in. long, infundibuliform 
and curved above, the lower part narrow-cylindrie 1 in. long; limb 
2-labiate, upper lip outmost in bud, erect, 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, 
spreading. Stamens didynamous ; anthers all conniving ; filaments 
glabrous, inserted below middle of corolla-tube, 1-eelled, adnate to the 
enlarged filament, upper pair without, lower with an empty oblong 
pointed cell. Dish 0. Ovary glabrous, 1 -celled, placentas 2, 2-fid, 
uniformly covered with ovules ; style glabrous downwards ; stigma 
peltate, flat, -2 in. in diam. 
Peeak : Scortechini, 2121 ! 
Order LXXXV. LENTIBULARIACEiE. 
[By D. Prain.] 
Marsh or aquatic herbs, or occasionally growing on wet rocks. 
Leaves radical, rosulate or when submerged capillary-multifid, some- 
times obsolete. Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite, on 1-many-flowered 
simple or branched scapes ; bracts small, sometimes 0 ; bracteoles 
under calyx 2 or 0. Calyx inferior, 2-5-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped and 
spurred ; upper lip usually the smaller, entire or emarginate ; lower lip 
3-6-lobed. Stamens 2, adnate to the base of the corolla, alternate with 
the lobes of the lower lip ; filaments widely curving, anther-cells ovate, 
transversely confluent ; dehiscence longitudinal. Carpels 2, connate in 
a superior, globose, 1-celled ovary ; ovules very many, on a free basal 
placenta ; style short ; stigma unequally 2-lobed. Fruit a globose 
2-4-valved, or irregularly rupturing capsule. Seeds very many, minute ; 
albumen 0. — Distrib. Species nearly 200, in all parts of the world. 
Utricularia, Linn. 
Herbs, often very small, submerged or floating, or growing on wet 
rocks. Leaves in submerged or floating species multifid, with capillary 
segments, in erect or twining species entire, often disappearing at time 
of flowering, frequently with minute bladders. Flowers on simple or 
branched scapes, racemes few- or many-flowered ; bracts and 2 bracteoles 
