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76 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 96
black by age. Mowers 3-8, in erect racemes ;
stalk of raceme
up to 9 in. long, rather stout, naked or with a few small scales,
without a whorl of floats below the flowers, but the whorl of
leaves at the base of the raceme-stalk has often its rhachis
more or less inflated and thus acts as a float. Bracts small,
egg-shaped. Flower-stalks J to f in. long, bent down in fruit.
Calyx --g- in. long, lobes almost equal, egg-shaped. Corolla
yellow, s~^ in. across ; spur nearly as long as the lower lip.
Capsule almost globose, 1 in. long. Seeds -^V^V in. diameter,
disc-shaped, irregularly 4-6-angled.
Flowers. July .
Locality. Dal Lake.
Distribution. Throughout the greater part of India and in
Ceylon, extending to Malaya, tropical Africa and N. Australia.
Utricularia exoleta, E. Br.
(Exoleta means grown up, full grown, mature.)
A small, aquatic herb floating in water or growing on liquid
mud. Stolons very slender, varying in length ;
branches
slender, flattened. Leaves variable, rarely more than } in.
long, not much dissected, the segments all capillary, but one
or more represented by bladders, or the whole leaf transformed
into a bladder. Eacemes 1-3 -flowered ;
raceme-stalk slender,
1J-3 in. long, with a very small, bract-like scale below the middle.
Flower-stalks slender, ^-J in. long, erect in fruit ;
bracteoles
very small, egg-shaped. Calyx TV in. long, segments broadly
elliptic. Corolla yellow with darker streaks, -J in. long;
spur as long as or slightly longer than the lower lip. Capsule
globose, thi in - diameter. Seeds disc-shaped, with a broad,
corky ring.
Locality. At lower elevations.
Distribution. Throughout India from the N.W. Himalaya
and Assam to Ceylon, extending to S.E. Asia, Malaya and
N. Australia.
Utricularia minor, Linn.
Smaller Bladderwort.
Stems thread-like, 4-12 in. high. Leaves regularly forked
in two parts,
much divided, loose, broad, round, with awllike,
entire segments, not fringed with hairs. Bladders with
slender stalks. Flowering stem 3-9 in. long, 2-8-fkrwered.
Flowers small, pale yellow ;
stalks 2-3 times as long as
the calyx, bent down in fruit. Sepals round, long-pointed.
Corolla in. long, lower lip much longer than the upper,
broadly egg-shaped, with a flat, spreading margin. Spur very
short, small, blunt.
Capsule globose, as long as the calyx.