Utricularia.] cn. lentibulariace^e. 495 
(14) U. ophirensis Ridl. Journ. Bot. xxxiii. 10. (Fig. 122, p. 
494.) 
Erect unbranched herb. Leaves linear-spathulate, ,*25 m. long. 
Scape rather stout, 8 in. tall. Bracts acute at both ends, produced 
below. Flowers few crowded at tip, 4 or 5 sub-sessile. Calyx- 
lobes orbicular blunt. Corolla *25 in. long, rose pink with darker 
streaks in the throat, upper lip short blunt, lower oblong blunt, 
spur horizontal longer than lower lip. Capsule globose, *i in. long. 
Seeds oblong angled pustular. Hab. Mountain streams. Malacca, 
Mt. Ophir (Ridley). Kedah Peak (Robinson). 
(15) U. striatula Rees, Cyclop, xxxvii. 17. U. orbiculata 
Wall. Cat. 1500; Pram, l.c. 374. U. anthropophora Ridl. Journ. 
F.M.S. Mus. vi, 165. 
Leaves orbicular stalked, *15 in., across or less. Scapes slender, 
2 to 5 in. long, 2- to 4-flowered, scales produced at base; pedicels 
•15 in. long. Calyx bilobed, lower lobe much smaller than upper, 
•12 in. across in fruit. Corolla violet (or white) with yellow spot 
on lower lip, 5-lobed; spur linear sub-acute, -2 in. long. Capsule 
globose, *1 in. across covered by upper calyx-lobe, longer than 
lower one. Seeds obovoid glochidiate. Hab. On dripping rocks, 
seldom in flower. Form of lip variable. Malacca, Mt. Ophir 
4000 ft. altitude. Pahang, Gunong Tahan (Robinson). Perak, 
Gunong Bubu (Wray), flowers violet; Gunong Mas (Wray), flowers 
white. Lankawi, Telaya Tujon (Curtis). Kedah Peak (Robinson). 
Distrib. Africa, Indo-Malaya. 
Order CIII. GESNER ACEtE. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite or by suppression of 1 of a 
pair alternate. Inflorescence axillary or pseudo-terminal cymose, 
racemose or panicled. Sepals 5 > often more or less connate. 
Corolla tubular or campanulate, usually distinctly 2-lipped, 5-lobed. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, or 2 fertile only; filaments in long 
tubular corollas linear filiform, in short-tubed flowers short and 
thick; anthers linear or sub-globose, connivent in pairs, cells 
splitting on inner face. Ovary oblong; style slender simple. 
Stigma capitate or bilobed. Fruit a capsule oblong-linear, conic 
or fusiform splitting dorsally, or ovoid or a fleshy berry (1 Cyrtandra). 
Seeds minute, plumed in Aeschynanthus and Agalmyla, elliptic not 
plumed in all others. Distnb. Species about 600. All tropical 
except a few ranging into temperate regions. (Ridley, Journ. Roy. 
As. Soc. S. Br. 43, p. 1; Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxxiv. 730.) 
Fruit capsular elongate. 
Seeds plumed. Epiphytic plants; leaves 
fleshy; flowers red or green. 
Stamens 4 perfect; shrubby erect or creeping. 1. ^Eschynanthus 
Stamens 2 perfect; scandent . . .2. Agalmyla 
