LENTIBULARIACEiE. 
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short ; anthers 1-celled. Ovary superior, 1-celled ; placenta free- 
central ; ovules very numerous ; style short ; stigma of two unequal 
plates. Capsule membranous, 2-valved. Seeds numerous, minute, exal- 
buminous. — Pond or marsh acaulescent herbs, with leaves in a radical 
rosette and flowers solitary or racemose. Distrib. Cosmopolitan. 
Species 180. 
1. CJTRICULARIA, Linn. 
Calyx with a very short tube and two entire lips. Corolla personate ; 
tube very short ; lips subentire, lower spurred. Stamens 2, inserted 
at the base of the upper lip of the corolla ; filaments short, curved ; 
anthers 1-celled. Ovary globose ; style erect, very short ; plates of stigma 
mostly unequal. Capsule membranous, dehiscing from the apex. — 
Aquatic herbs, with leaves usually floating and multifid with capillary 
segments and copious bladders, the flowers in peduncled lax racemes. 
Distrib. Cosmopolitan. Species 150. 
1. U. stellar is, Linn. ; DC. Prod. viii. 4. Stems slender, floating, 
reaching a length of 2-4 feet or more. Leaves fascicled, 2-3 in. 
long, decompound, with capillary segments and copious small round 
bladders. Peduncle furnished below the raceme with a w horl of 4-10 
large sessile oblong-cylindrical bladders fringed at the apex. Racemes 
lax, many-flowered ; pedicels longer than the calyx, thickened upwards, 
minutely bracteated at the base. Calyx-lobes £ in. long, membranous, 
roundish, after flowering persistent and growing much larger. Corolla 
} in. long, yellow; upper lip round, erect, with purple longitudinal 
veins ; lower saccate, with reflexed edges. Capsule the size of a pea. 
Hook. Bot. Misc. Swppl. t. 27. 
Mauritius, in the Grand Bassin, Mare aux Vacouas, etc. Through the tropics of 
the Old World. 
Order LXXIY. BIGNONIACE.®. 
Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite. Calyx various, always inferior, 
campanulate or spathaceous. Corolla gamopetalous, with a funnel- 
shaped tube and a more or less irregular limb. Stamens didynamous, 
generally 4, included. Ovary inserted on a glandular disk, generally 2- 
celled ; ovules numerous, horizontal ; style long, simple ; stigma of 
two plates. Fruit generally capsular, the dissepiment parallel with or 
perpendicular to the valves. Seeds exalbuminous, thin, generally 
winged. — Shrubs, often climbers; leaves opposite, usually compound ; 
flowers large, showy, terminal, corymbose or panicled. Distrib. 
Tropics of both hemispheres. Species 450. 
1. COLEA, Bojer. 
Calyx campanulate, truncate or obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla with 
a slightly curved nearly cylindrical tube and 5 short round nearly equal 
lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, just exserted from the tube ; anthers 1- 
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