Nt/mplim.] VI. NYMPHjEACEjE (oliver). 53 



Etudes Nymph, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3. xix. 41. N. scutifolia, DC. Syst. 

 Jeg. ii. 50. N. capensis, Thunb. FI. Cap. 431. N. Petersiana, Klotzsch in 

 Peters' Mossamb. 152. For further synonymy, see « Flora Indica,' i. 243. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Brunner /, etc. ; Niger, Barter ! 

 Hi 6 Land- Ab yssinia, Billon, etc.; Kordofan, Kotschy ! Upper Nile and Egypt 

 {Miceinf. et Asch. Enum.) ; Lake Karague and Upper Nile, Speke and Grant ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Br. Welwitschf 



South Central, Chapman and Baines ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Lake Nyassa, Shire, and Zambesi, Br. Kirk ! 



lne smoothness of the seeds of the small-flowered form, named N. Heudelotii, by M. 

 rlanchon, does not appear to me to be a character of much importance. I find them nearly 

 » smooth in an Indian specimen of N. stellata. 



j I Y^ arsmrivers > lake8 > and tanks in extratropical Africa, both north and south, and in 

 • adagascar. It is very common in India, and extends to the Archipelago. 



Oeder VII. PAPAVERACEJE (by Prof. Oliver). 

 Suborder I. Papavere^e. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, fugacious. Sepals 2 or 3, free, caducous. 

 petals 4 or 6, hypogynous, free, imbricate and usually crumpled in aestiva- 

 ■* Stamens indefinite, free. Filaments filiform; anthers innate, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil syncarpous ; ovary superior, 1-celled with 2 

 10 many parietal placentas, sometimes projecting nearly to the centre of the 

 J var v; ovules indefinite, anatropous. Fruit a capsule, usually dehiscing by 

 J2* or P° res . many-seeded. Seeds albuminous with a minute embryo.— 

 ««b» or rarely shrubs with a milky or coloured juice. Leaves alternate or 

 JW, simple or pinnatifid, exstipulate. Flowers usually solitary and ter- 

 mina Ud white or yellow. 



tir 3 Chi6fly ° f the north tem P erate zone - Several s P ecies are COmm ° n W6edS ° f CUl " 



BSWttysEC.'r . the . c " ,8 "' e -. Cap »• *—«• 



1- PAPAVER, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 51. 



Sepals 2 or 3. Petals 4 or 6. Stamens indefinite. Ovary globose ovoid 

 JS*h s %mas 4-oo, radiating, sessile. Placentas projecting into the 

 by l/ heovar y. ^ered with the indefinite ovules. Capsule dehiscing 

 £25 P ° res under ^e margin of the discoid stigmatic surface Seeds 

 duncU i'7 GIabrous ^spid or prickly, annual or perennial herbs. le- 



j" es ^flowered. Flowers showy, red white or yellow, very fugacious. 

 * froi P T ieS - OCCUrrin S in Tropical Africa are not indigenous. One species, not known to 

 topical Africa, is native at the Cape (P. aculeatum, Thunb.). 



|fiS?*Sj g,anrous 'P innati - or bipinnati-partite. Capsule ^ p ^.^ 

 gU Ue ^ Regularly lobed or 'toothed, 'a.mplexicaul. Capsule ^ p wmniferttl)U 



