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LXXXV1II. LENTIBULARIEiE. 
[Utricular ia. 
U. a finis, Wight, Ic. t. 1580 ; Oliv. ia Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 178, from the Indian Peninsula, 
appears to be as suggested by Oliver, the same plant, differing from the common Asiatic 
U. ccerulea, Linn, (which is probably the true U. graminifolia, Vahl.) in the shorter pedicels, 
usually less acute calyxes, and perhaps a few other characters of no great importance.— Benth. 
10. U. lateriflora (flowers lateral), B. Ur. Prod. 431 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. iv. 
528. Scapes slender, sometimes filiform, but often rather rigid and drying 
black, 1 to 4in. high. Leaves radical, spathulate, very rarely present at the time 
of flowering. Flowers small, purple, usually only 2 to 4, distant and very shortly 
pedicellate or almost sessile. Bracts obtuse, not produced at the base. Calyx 
not 1 line long. Corolla : upper lip oblong or linear, truncate or emarginate, 
shortly exceeding the calyx ; lower lip broader than long, 3 to 4 lines across, 
entire or obscurely crenate, the sides reflexed ; spur conical, nearly as long as the 
lower lip or sometimes rather longer. Capsule membranous. Seeds small, 
ovoid. — A. DC. Prod. viii. 15 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 299. 
Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay. 
V. parviflora, K. 14r. Prod. 431 ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 15, appears to me to be a slight variety of 
U. lateriflora, with long filiform scapes and rather smaller flowers.- — Benth. 
11. U. dichotoma (dichotomous), Labill. PL Nov. Holl. i. 11. t. 8; Benth. 
FI. Austr. iv. 529. Scapes slender, from a few inches to above 1ft. high. 
Leaves radical, petiolate, from almost ovate and 1 line long to linear or oblong, 
3 to 4 lines long (or in a few abnormal specimens more than lin. and very 
narrow), accompanied by filiform fibres, some of them bearing small fringed 
utricles, the leaves sometimes disappearing before the flowering. Flowers purple 
or lilac, opposite in 1 or 2 pairs or whorls of 3 at the end of the stem, rarely 
reduced to a single terminal flower. Pedicels filiform, at first very short but 
lengthening from f to iin. under the fruit. Bracts always opposite or in threes 
(even when the flower is solitary), small and narrow, very shortly produced belo.w 
their insertion. Calyx- segments usually about 1J line long, broad and obtuse. 
Corolla : upper lip small, broadly ovate or obovate, obtuse or obscurely 2-lobed ; 
lower lip horizontal, broadly semicircular, b to fin. across, the palate with a 
small 3-lobed prominence ; spur descending, obtuse, much shorter than the 
lower lip and sometimes very short. Capsule membranous. Seeds small, ovoid. 
— A. DC. Prod. viii. 14 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 299 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 161 ; 
U. speciosa, R. Br. Prod. 430 ; L. oppositi flora, R. Br. lc. ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 14. 
Hab.: Many of the southern swamps ; Cupravale. Be v.. B. Scortechini. 
Var. uniflora. Flowers smaller, mostly solitary. — U. uniflora, B. Br. Prod. 431; A. DC. 
Prod. viii. 14; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 299. Generally mixed with the 2 or more-flowered 
specimens. The specimens distinguished by Brown as his three species appear to me to differ 
only in the number and size of the flowers, which are always variable in all the sets of 
V. dicliotoma which I have seen. — Benth. 
12. U. biloba (2-lobed), B. Br. Prod. 432; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 
531. Scapes slender, simple or slightly branched, 6 to 9in. high, usually with 
several small scales, which as well as the bracts are alternate and produced below 
their insertion, mostly acute. Leaves very small and rare at the time of flowering. 
Flowers blue (Pi. Broun), dark when dry, several in a raceme, on filiform 
pedicles usually as long as or rather longer than the calyx. Calyx-segments 
about 1 line long when in flower and but slightly enlarged afterwards, very broad 
and obtuse. Corolla : upper lip very short, ovate, 2-lobed, with the sides reflexed ; 
lower lip broader than long, broadly 2-lobed ; spur conical, obtuse, horizontal or 
descending, longer than the lower lip, the whole corolla 3 or 4 lines long. — A. 
DC. Prod. viii. 21. 
Hab.: Southern swamps. 
This and the following two species usually turn black in drying, which is not the case with 
V. cyanea. U. lateriflora sometimes turns black, but it is readily distinguished by the bracts. — 
Benth. 
