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twining, thin, 6 to 8 in. long. Leaves linear-spathulate, absent at time 
of flowering ; bladders not seen. Flowers small, racemose or sub- 
spicate at ends of stems ; pedicels sometimes absent, sometimes up 
to -25 in. long ; bracts lanceolate, acute, basifixed. Calyx-lobes ovate, 
acute, -15 in. long, in fruit -2 in. long. Corolla yellow; upper lip 
obovate, lower rounded, -2 in. wide ; spur straight or slightly incurved, 
■2 in. long. Capsule sub-globose, enclosed within calyx-lobes, upraised 
on the sub-erect fruiting pedicels. Seeds ellipsoid, scrobiculate but not 
glochidiate or papillose. Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 182 ; Clarke 
in Hook. f. Elor. Brit. Ind. IV. 332; Bidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 11. 
U. scandens, Benj. in Linnaia XX. 309 chiefly. U. macrolepis, Wight 
Ic. t. 1580, fig. 2. fide Clarke. U. capillacea, Tbw. Enum. 171 (not of 
Oliv.). 
Malacca : Mount Ophir, at 4,000 feet elevation, growing among 
grasses, Ridley ! — Distrib. Throughout India. 
8. Utricularia involvens, Bidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 11. A 
tufted herb forming mats of leaves on rocks in streams ; stems twining, 
fairly stout, 12 in. long. Leaves thinly membranous, spathulate-linear, 
obtuse, 1 in. long or longer, T in. across. Flowers large, racemed at 
ends of stems; pedicels '5 to - 75 in. long; bracts lanceolate, acute, 
basifixed, -1 in. long. Calyx-lobes oblong-ovate, -25 in. long. Corolla 
lemon-yellow ; upper lip obovate, lower rounded, 2-lobed, -35 in. wide ; 
spur straight, pendulous, acute or acuminate, -25 in. long. Capsule 
unknown. 
Kedah : Kedah Peak (Gunong Jerai), at 3,000 feet elevation, in 
streams and wet places, Ridley ! 
A very fine and remarkably distinct species. 
9. Utricularia verticillata, Benj. Linnsea XX. 312. A slender 
erect weed of wet places. Leaves 0 at time of flowering and not seen ; 
roots fibrous, bladders not seen. Scapes slender, sometimes capillary, 
rigid, branched, 3 to 10 in. long, glabrous ; beset with a few ovate 
scales oi empty bracts, acute at both ends and produced downwards 
beyond point of insertion ; pedicels capillary, puberulous, '2 in. long in 
flower, in fruit "25 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles produced below point 
of insertion. Calyx 2-lobed, lobes sub-equal, sub-orbicular, in fruit '1 in. 
long. Corolla (? yellow) ‘15 in. wide ; spur wide-cylindric, slightly 
exceeding lower lip of corolla. Capsule globose, To in. in diam., 
projecting beyond the closely adpressed calyx-lobes. Seeds minute, 
with sub-hexagonal reticulations. Oliv. Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 184 ; 
Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 333; Bidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 10. 
U. bifida, Wight Ic. t. 1584, f. 2 ( not of Linn.). 
