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^Podophyllum.] ,VT, BERBERiDE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 113 



middle or base ; lobes cimeate, acutely serrate. Peduncle terminal in bud, then appa- 

 rently supra-axillarj or inserted on the petiole of the upper leaf. Flowers I-I4 in. 

 warn. Sepals very deciduous. Petals 6, sometimes 4 {Royle)^ obovate-oblong. Berry 

 1-2 in., ellipsoid, red, edible. 





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Order VII. NYMPH-ffiACEiE. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



, Aouatic perennial herbs. Leaves usually floating, often peltate, margins 

 involute in vernation. Scapes 1-flowered, naked. Florat-whorls all free, 

 %ogynous or adnata to a fleshy disk that surrounds or envelops the car- 

 pels. Sepals 3-5. Petals 3-5, or many. Stamens many. Carpels 3 or more 

 m one whorl^ free or connate or irregularly sunk in pits of the disk j stigmas 

 ^ many as carpels, peltate or decurrent; ovules few, or many tod scattered 

 over the walls of the cells, anatropous or orthotropous. Fruit formed of the 

 connate carpels, or of separate and indehiscent carpels, or of the enlarged 

 ^rbinate flat-topped disk with the nut-like carpels sunk in its crown. 

 *>ee{fe naked or arilled ; albumen floury orO; embryo enclosed in the en- 

 ^edammotic sac.-^DisTKiB. Temperate and tropical; genera 8, species 



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^bUBORDERl. Cabombeae. >SVaZ5andpeta?s 3 each, free.- Car;?eZ5 free. 

 we<iew. /S'eecfe albuminous.. 





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1. Brasesia. 



r^??^^^ II. Nsntnphffise. Sepals 4-6. Petals and stamens indefinite. 

 ffianv ^^'*5^^"t ^ith one another or with the disk into one ovary. Ovules 



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Hs, petals and stamens i-superior, Inserted on the disk, which is • ' ' : 



confluent with the carpels 2. NrMPHiEi. 



^pa 8 inferior ; petals superior ; carpels sunk in the torus . '. . ■ 3. Bakclaya. 

 V^, petals and stamens superior. Carpels sunk in the torus . . 4. Eueyale. 



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iiiJ^^^R ni Nelumbie®. Sepals 4-5. Petals and f^^fl'^}^^.^^^^ 



exalbuminous. 





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1. BXIA.SENIA, Scbreber. 



alteri^^^ aquatic, with a creeping rootstock. Stem branclied leaves 

 ^te peltate, bating ; petioles and peduncles clothed with mucus. 

 »nther^ l;^ P^^^^ncles axillary. Sepals 3. Fetals 3, linear. Stamens 12-18 ; 

 dilated S^^' ^^^^^ I'-iteral. ^^^ small. Ova?'ies 6-18, cylindnc ; ^tigma 

 "=oriace^i.« • J ^ ?^^'^s 2-3, pendulous from the walls of the ovj " 

 . ."^' "^dehiscent. Seeds albuminous. 



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^•/ (tV^f/*^^*' PwA; leaves "elliptic-oblong, peduncles pubescent. 

 U2; qiw h' ^^^' ^- 246. Hydropeltis purpurea, Hi^hnrd; DC Froar. 



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H t ^ '"»• -P^^owers 1 in. diam. Sepals pubescent. Petals rose-red.. 



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