

A>i^^^fl.] VII. NYMPH^ACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 115 



_ X 



^ 3W. pjgrmaBa, Aiton; very small, leaves oblong-orbicular or quite 

 entire, lobes acute, flowers white, stamens without appendages, stigmatic 

 ^ys 4-8 broad ovate spoon-shaped. £ot. Mag, t. 1525 : //. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 



Kha 



Khasu hills, Jenkins, in marshes at Nonkreem. alt. 5600 ft., H.f. & T.— Distrib. 

 Sibena, N, China. i i ^ 



■floof^^ocA woolly with soft black hairs. Leaves 1-2 in. long, lobes diverging. 

 mer8 iy2 in. diam. Calyx base square : sepals 4, obtuse. Petals about 10, obtuse. 

 Ste/^n.3-4-8eriate; pollen subgranufar. 



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WaUick 



An 



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An aquatic herb ; rootstock short, villous. Leaves linear-oblong, hastate, 

 sertpJ^'f f^^J^^'^^^^ extra-axillary. Flowers red or purplish. Sepals 5, in- 

 tuWl, f • base of the ovary. Petals numerous, 3-seriate, united into a 

 a rit! •^1?°'^^^^'^^ ^'^^^ tlie carpels. Stamens many-seriate, inserted on 

 niMiJ ^^^""^ *^e corolla-tube ; anthers pendulous from recurved fila- 

 conni' -^"^-^^ imperfect. (?wries about 10, confluent, top conical; styles 

 tronn7^°^ ^"'° ^ 10-rayed cone, stigmatiferous within ; ovules many, ortho- 

 cornll I Panetally scattered. Berry globose, pulpy, crowned with the 



emKi^ • *°^ annular torus. Seeds spheric, echinate, albumen floury ; 

 emDryommutft f > 



Wall, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 442 



':^ «"9, 810: Griff. Notul. 218, t. 57 ; //./. 

 /.^/"^f^o^a Pegu to Mergui. 



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slender P? ^ ^^^ ^"-^ membranous, smooth or pubescent beneath : petiole as long, 

 ^rwiVaRl * i'^i ^'°* ^^°& du" green outside, red or purple within, inodorous. 



*a large as a cherry. ; 



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4. EVRYAXiE, Salisb. 



-^(JS^ Pnckly aquatic ; rootstock thick. Leaves orbicular, corrugate, 

 of thpfn. I' partially submerged. Sepals 4, erect, inserted on the edge 

 fte dpS ^^c?^^ the carpels. Peto/s numerous, 3-5-seriate, shorter than 

 linear rvu ^^«,^««s many, many-seriate, fascicled in eights -filaments 

 of the fn spneric, 3-nucleate. Ovary 8-celled, sunk in the dilated top 

 ■6«Ty,n^ ' stigma discoid, depressed, concave; ovules few, parietal. 

 Wsta tE% '^'i^'^"«'i ^itli the persistent sepals. Seeis 8-20, aril pulpy ; 







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ack, albumen mealy, embryo small. 



^•/. ^'/*?f*r' ^''^^*- ' ^«^^- ^'o'-- ^^«»^. iii- t- 244 ; ^«^. ^«^. t. 1 447 ; 

 AnneSia sn- '''''^•245. E. indica and R ferox, Planch. Etudes Nymph. 29. 



1. 



,o „.^' • -:r.^. ij. iuuiuci anil 



Ocn. f '''*' ^^*^- ^^- ^«^- ii- 673. 



a''"f ; JREELa nf Tr.o™„.. -n 



f«<ocit 



'^ or puroip t '^^ Jeeves 1-4 ft, diam., elliptic or orbicular, green 

 2^^n and s^Jn- *"' ^''^'^ s^™ng sP'iJ I'ibs. Flowers 1-2 in. long, _ 

 '^'^l' eaten roaet^j "^^*'^*^- ^^^^^ ^~^ "^- "^'^™- ^^^^ ^"""^ * P^* *° * '^'^'^"^ 



KE. — DisTBiB. China. 



above, downy and 

 brfeht red inside, 



. 6. NEZ.VMBZUM 



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V. a« ^M,mM mj XWM.XM^ mj Aiwa U WW^.-. ,,:.■.--,. .; 





^««»« ra;«.Tt-' ,^*ter herb with milky juice; rootstocK, stou^ 

 ''^ow' "S; ^^^ *^o^e the water, peltate. Flowers rose-red 

 '^^ens maWv*-^' inserted on the top of the scape, caducous 



*"y> ^ypogynous. manv-seriate. caducous. Anthers witn 



wnite or 

 Petals and 



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