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as the short and thick style, glabrous. Stigma 2-lipped, the upper lip 
a small purplish tooth; the lower one large, re curved down- 
wards, and covering the top of the stamens. — 
This highly curious and beautiful plant has been long known 
as an inhabitant of mountainous places in Martinique, Montser- 
rat, and Peru. ‘The Rev. Lanpspown GvuILpING sent me 
the same species from the Souffriére, in the island of St Vincent’s; 
but it is to my excellent friend C. 8. Parker, Esq. that I am 
indebted for the means of giving an accurate figure and descrip- 
tion of it, from specimens preserved in spirits, and others dried 
with great care, as well as from notes made on the spot, both 
in T'rinidad and Grenada. In the former island, Mr Parker 
found it in a northern exposure, upon the decayed trunks of 
trees, in moss ( Orthotrichum ), on the summit of the most ele- 
vated point in Trinidad, estimated at 2800 feet above the le- 
vel of the sea; and at the latter, on the road leading to Grand 
EKtang, at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, 
among terrestrial mosses, in a very exposed situation. . This, 
therefore, notwithstanding that it has bladders like the aquatic 
species of the genus, does not appear to have been found ac- 
tually in water. JACQUIN says it inhabits the highest moun- 
tains of Martinique, “ in loco pratensi udo et aprico.” Per- 
haps, like Polygonum amphibium, &c. it may be destined to 
live either in water or upon land. | 
JACQUIN’s figure, though coarsely executed, is tolerably 
accurate; but the bladders of the root are omitted. Ruiz and 
Pavon’s only exhibit the calyx of the flower ; and neither has 
any details. 
Porret’s Utricularia montana seems to be exactly the 
present plant. | 
Fig. 1. Corolla with the lips forced open. Fig. 2. The lower lip, scarcely 
magnified. Fig. 3. Stamens and Pistil. Fig. 4. Pistil. Fig. 5. Sta- 
~ mens.—More or less magnified. 
