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lobe and the lower lip of the corolla. Capsule ovate, -2 in. long, hidden 
by the calyx. Seeds obovoid, reticulate, cells of the testa sub-hexa- 
gonal. U. Griffithii, Wight Ic. t. 1576; Eidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 10. 
U. ccerulea, Benth. FI. Hongk. 256 ( not of Linn.). 
Malacca : Griffith ! Ridley ! Perak : Scortechini ! Singapore : 
Hullett ! Ridley ! — Distrib. China, Burma, Tenasserim, Borneo. 
There are only shrivelled leaves on Ridley’s and Wight’s specimens, which are 
mostly in fruit ; Scortechini’s specimens, which are in flower, have numerous radical 
grassy linear-spathulate obtuse leaves, -5 in. long or rather longer. Mr. Ridley, in 
all probability rightly, considers that this is entitled to specific rank apart from 
U. affmis. 
6. Utricularia minutissima, Vahl Bnum. I. 204. A very small 
erect weed of wet places ; leaves 0 at time of flowering and not seen ; 
roots fibrous, bladders not seen. Scapes capillary, rigid, branched, 2 to 
3 in. long, quite glabrous, or with a few rigid scattered black hairs ; 
racemes 2-5-flowered, beset with a few basifixed ovate-acute empty 
bracts or scales; pedicels very short, in fruit only -05 in. long,, 
occasionally like the upper calyx-lobe with a few straight black hairs, 
sub-patent, with small lanceolate basifixed bracts and bracteoles, less 
than half as long as their pedicels. Calyx 2-lobed, lobes sub-equal 
wide-oblong, obtuse, in fruit -1 in. long. Corolla mauve, - 15 in. wide; 
spur wide-conic-cylindric, thrice as long as lower calyx-lobe and twice 
as long as lower lip of corolla. Capsule oblong, '07 in. long, covered 
by the calyx. Seeds minute, ovoid, obscurely scrobiculate. A. DO. 
Prod. VIII. 16 ; Oliv. Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 190 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. 
Ind. IV. 334 ; Bidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 11. 
Perak : Larut, Scortechini 1501 ! Pahang : Kwala Pahang, Ridley 
1474c in part ! Malacca : Koenig ; on Mount Ophir, Ridley, 
This small plant, collected by Scortechini with no note of colour, and stated by 
Ridley to have mauve flowers, is here identified with U. minutissima , Vahl, from 
description only. The branched capillary stems render it very like and very liable 
to be mistaken for small specimens of U. verticillata, which has, however, longer 
pedicels and bracts produced below their point of insertion. The presence of hairs 
on the stems, pedicels, and sometimes the calyx, at once suggests a reference to 
U. liirta , which is undoubtedly its nearest affinity. The scape, however, appears 
never to branch in U. liirta ; the flowers in that species are larger and fewer ; the 
pubescence, too, when present in U. minutissima, which is not always the case, is very 
different, consisting of rigid patent black bristly hairs, whereas in U. hirta the hairs 
are soft and grey or tawny. The seeds of the two species are very similar, but those of 
U. minutissima are smaller and yet have fewer- and larger-meshed sub-hexagonal 
reticulations. 
7. Utricularia Wallichiana, Wight Ic. t. 1572, fig. 1. A very 
slender herb growing in wettish fields and damp 'grassy places ; stems 
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