102 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Specimens examined: 
In formalin— 
Georeia: Heards Pond, 1901, Harper. 
Dry— 
Grorata: Along the Ochlockonee River, near Thomasville, 1895, Small, type 
(N. Y.); Heards Pond, Thomas County, 1901, Harper 1178. 
16. Nymphaea bombycina Miller & Standley, sp. nov. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 394797, collected at Wellborn, Florida, 
October 11, 1901, by A. H. Cur- 
tiss (no. 6900). Besides the type 
sheet another in the National 
Herbarium, no. 394798, is of this 
collection. 
DistriBpution: Northern Flor- 
ida and southern Georgia. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Rootstocks stout, very large 
and fleshy, rough, 7 or 8 cm. in 
diameter; leaf blades floating, 
glabrous on the upper surface, 
densely silky-pubescent be- 
neath, thick and leathery, very 
broadly ovate to almost orbicu- 
lar in outline, 20 to 30 em. long 
and 20 to 25 em. wide, broadest 
near the base, rounded at the 
apex, and emarginate; sinus 
open, V-shaped or U-shaped, two- 
fifths as long as the blade, the 
lobes broadly rougded; veins 
conspicuous, parallel almost to the margin, the midrib stout and very prominent; 
petioles stout, terete, about 10 mm. in diameter, silky-pubescent: peduncles stout, 
densely pubescent, 10 to 15 mm. in diameter; flowers large, depressed-globose, much 
flattened, 60 to 80 mm. in diameter, 35 to 45 mm. 
high, when spread measuring 12 to 14 cm.; sepals 
very thick and fleshy, the outer oblong, obtuse, the 
inner obovate, broadly rounded; outersepalsoil green, 
yellowish at the tips, the inner almost entirely sulphur 
yellow, nored present anywhere in the flower; stamens 
in 6 or 7 rows, the anthers about twice as long as the 
filaments; fruit ovoid or almost cylindrical, 50 to 60 
mm. in diameter, smooth below, faintly and finely 
ribbed above, slightly constricted just below the 
spreading edges of the stigmatic disk, this 30 to 35 
mm. in diameter, orbicular, the margin undulate; 
rays 15 to 18, usually 16, linear, distinct and distant, 
extending to within 2 mm. of the edge of the disk, 
with no trace of a median groove; central area about 12 mm. in diameter, smooth, 
depressed about 5 mm.; seeds ovoid, light chestnut brown, 6 mm. long and 4.5 mm. 
in diameter. the raphe acutish; color of fruit much as in N. orbiculata, the body oil 
Fic. 36.—Leaf outline of Nymphaea bombycina. Scale 3. 
Fig. 37.—Stigmatie pattern of Nym- 
phaea bombycina, Natural size. 
