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Utricularia.] 4. U. delicatula, Cheesem. n. sp.—Habit of U. novæ-zealandiæ, but much smaller, the scape seldom more than 3 in. high. Leaves 1 or 2 or wanting, narrow-linear or narrow linear-spathulate, quite entire. Scape 1–3 in. high, slender, wiry, erect, 1–3-flowered; bracts very small. Flowers shortly pedicelled, about ⅕ in. long, white with a faint yellow eye. Calyx-segments almost equal, suborbicular, concave. Upper lip of corolla the smaller, linear-oblong, two-lobed at the tip; lower lip with a horizontally spreading lamina which is quite entire, not 3-lobed; palate very obscurely thickened or quite plane; spur longer than in U. novæ-zealandiæ, minutely 2-horned at the tip. Capsule globose, membranous, about 1 in. diam.

5. U. Colensoi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 206.—"Altogether like U. novæ-zealandiæ but with the upper lip of the corolla linear-oblong, 2-lobed; lower broadly cuneate, 3-lobed, middle lobe retuse, disc with 3 gibbous prominences."—''Handb. N.Z. ''Fl. 223. (?) U. vulcanica, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi. (1894) 318.

6. U. monanthos, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 299.—A minute stemless herb. Roots or rhizome very slender, bearing several subglobose compressed bladders $1⁄15$–$1⁄10$ diam. Leaves few, all radical, ¼–1 in. long, narrow linear-spathulate, petiolate, quite entire. Scape slender, simple, erect, ¾–4 in. high, 1- or rarely 2-flowered. Flowers large for the size of the plant, ⅓ in. 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.'' 222.