Utricularia.| LENTIBULARIACEAE. 849 
plant, gm. diam. or more, dark violet-purple with a yellow eye. Calyx- 
segments oblong, obtuse. Upper lip of corolla much the smaller, broadly 
cuneate, retuse ; lower lip expanded into a broad semicircular horizontally 
spreading lamina; palate glandular; spur short, obtuse. Capsule globose, 
membranous. — Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 222; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fi. 
(1906) 561. 
Norta Istanp: Rangipo Plain, near Ruapehu, Petrie! Kakaramea, base of 
Tongariro, bogs on the Waimarino Plains, 7. F. C.; Kaimanawa Mountains, B. C. 
Aston! Soutu Isuanp, Stewart Isnanp: Not uncommon in peat bogs in moun- 
tainous localities. Sea-level to 3500 ft. December—March. 
Easily recognized by the large dark-purple flowers. For a deseription of the 
bladders, and for some notes on the fertilization, see Mr. G. M. Thomson’s paper on 
the fertilization of New Zealand flowering-plants (Trans. N.Z%. Inst. xiii (1881) 278). 
Family XCVI. MYOPORACEAE. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or scattered, rarely opposite, simple, 
entire or toothed; stipules wanting. Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular 
or almost regular. Calyx inferior, persistent, 5-partite or 5-fid. Corolla 
gamopetalous, hypogynous, 5-lobed; lobes imbricate. Stamens 4, didy- 
namous, rarely 5-6, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers introrse, 
cells coniluent. Ovary superior, not lobed, normally 2-celled with 2 (rarely 
more) pendulous ovules in each cell, but sometimes the cells are more or. 
less completely divided into 2, with a single ovule in each cell, or very rarely 
the cells may be as many as 5-10; style terminal; stigma small, entire 
or emarginate. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent, succulent or almost dry, 
2-4-celled. Seeds solitary in each cell; albumen scanty, fleshy; embryo 
straight ; radicle superior, next the hilum. 
A small family, almost confined to Australia, a few species only being found in 
the Pacific islands, the Malay Archipelago, and South Africa, and one monotypic genus 
in the West Indies. Genera 5; species about 100. The properties of the family are 
unimportant. 
MYOPORUM Banks and Sol. 1 7&6 
Shrubs or small trees, glabrous or the branchlets glutinous. Leaves 
alternate, entire or serrate, studded with pellucid glands. Flower small, 
axillary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx 5-lobed or -partite, not enlarged after 
flowering. Corolla campanulate; tube short; limb 5-lobed, lobes sub- 
equal or the lowest rather larger. Stamens 4, rarely 5 or 6, nearly equal, 
included or shortly exserted. Ovary ovoid, 2-4-celled, very rarely 5-10- 
celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, rarely 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell, 
Drupe ovoid or subglobose, more or less succulent. 
A genus of about 25 species, mostly Australian, the rest scattered through the 
Pacific islands, the Malay Archipelago, China and Japan, and Mauritius. The single 
New Zealand species is endemic, but is very closely allied to some from the Pacific islands. 
1. M. laetum Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 44-—A shrub or small tree 
3-25 ft. high; trunk 9-18 in. diam.; bark brown, thick and furrowed ; 
branches spreading, viscid at the tips. Leaves 14-4 in. long, lanceolate 
to oblong-lanceolate or obovate, acute or acuminate, narrowed into petioles 
3-lin. long, serrulate above the middle, bright-green, quite glabrous, 
almost fleshy, veins inconspicuous. Flawers in axillary fascicles of 2-6. 
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