CII. LENTIBULARIACE^. 
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Utricularia.) 
First described by Vahl from specimens collected by Koenig in Malacca. 
He gives the colour of the flowers as blue, but I have little doubt that this 
tiny plant is what he intended. It is generally glabrous, but occasionally 
has a few black stiff hairs on the stem. Its minute size makes it difficult 
to find. 
(9) U. nigricaulis Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 317; Journ. 
F.M.S. Mus. vi. 164. 
Leaves narrow linear blunt. Scape filiform, 3 in. tall, purple 
or green; scales lanceolate not prolonged below. Flowers small, 
few. Sepals unequal, upper blunt rounded, violet, lower much 
smaller greenish. Corolla, upper lobe oblong blunt whitish, base 
violet, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes sub-equal, middle one a little smaller, 
violet, base darker; spur horizontal, base gibbous little longer than 
lip, violet. Capsule ovate-orbicular. Hab. Damp peaty banks 
at 5000 to 6000 ft. altitude. Pahang, Gunong Tahan (Ridley). 
Kedah Peak (Robinson). 
(10) U. Wallichiana Wight, Ic. PL t. 1572, fig. 1:; Prain, lx. 371. 
Twining slender herb 6 to 8 in. long. Leaves linear-spathulate. 
Flowers small racemose; pedicels o to *25 in. long. Bracts lanceo¬ 
late acute. Calyx-lobes ovate acute, -15 to *2 in. wide in fruit. 
Corolla, upper lip obovate, lower lip round, *2 in. wide, lemon yellow; 
spur straight or curved, -2 in. long. Capsule sub-globose. Seed 
ellipsoid scrobiculate. Hab. In damp spots twining on grasses, 
very local. Malacca, Mt. Ophir 4000 ft. altitude (Ridley). Distrib. 
India. 
(11) U. involvens Ridl. Journ. Bot. xxxiii. 11; Prain, l.c. 372. 
(Fig. 121, p. 494.) 
Plant forming a tufted mat of linear-spathulate leaves over 
1 in. long. Stems twining about 1 ft. tall. Bracts lanceolate 
acute. Pedicels *5 to 75 in. long. Calyx-lobes oblong-ovate, 
nearly -23 in. long. Corolla bright lemon yellow, upper lip obovate, 
lower round bilobed, *35 in. wide, spur straight deflexed acuminate, 
•25 in. long. Hab. Rare, in damp grassy spots at 4000 ft. altitude, 
the stems twining on grass. Kedah Peak (Lobb, Ridley). 
(12) U. verticillata Ben]. Linncea xx. 312; Prain, l.c. 372. 
Leaves unknown. Stems erect 3 to 10 in. long, scales ovate 
prolonged downwards; pedicels puberulous, -2 in. long in flower, 
•25 in. long in fruit. Bracts and bracteoles produced below. Calyx 
2-lobed, lobes orbicular, *1 in. long in fruit. Corolla yellow, -15 in. 
across, spur wide cylindric little longer than the lower lip. Capsule 
globose, -15 in. through. Seeds hexagonally reticulate. Hab. In 
wet spots open country, not common. Malacca (Griffith). Pahang, 
Kwala Pahang (Ridley). Lankawi (Curtis). 
(13) U. albina Ridl. U. albiflora Griff. Notulm, iv. 168 {not 
of Brown). U. racemosa var. filicaulis Prain, l.c. 373 {not of Clarke ). 
Slender herb about 3 to 6 in. tall, often branched. Leaves 
linear-spathulate. Scales produced below, ovate. Flowers about 
