Mr. Jenman, Superintendent of the George Town Botanical 
Garden in 1888, and which flowered in April of the present 
year. Mr. Watson informs me that the flowers last for but 
one day, and that none appeared after May. 
Descr. Stems very long, rooting in the mud, branching 
under water and giving off leaves of two forms, submerged 
and floating, both petioled; submerged leaves circular in 
outline, two to three inches in diameter, five-partite, the 
segments flabelliform di-tri-chotomously cut into filiform 
green laciniz, petiole half to one inch long, glabrous; 
floating leaves longer petioled, peltate, elliptic, one and 
a half to two inches in the longest diameter, quite entire, 
bright green above with a red spot at the insertion of the 
petiole, young purplish red beneath, old with mottled 
purple margins. Peduneles axillary, longer than the 
petioles, stout, green, upper part rising above the water 
and bearing a solitary pale yellow flower half an inch in 
diameter. Sepals three, obovate-oblong obtuse. Petals 
three, as long as the sepals, broadly clawed, ovate cordate 
obtuse. Stamens six, hypogynous, anthers linear-oblong 
rather shorter than the filaments. Carpels one to three, 
free, fusiform, pubescent, narrowed into as many short 
styles, with terminal papillose stigmata; ovules two to 
three, pendulous from the walls of the carpels. ipe 
carpels about one-third of an inch long, crowned with the 
persistent styles and stigmas, coriaceous, indehiscent. 
Seeds two to three.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, petal; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, young frait; 6, a carpel laid = 
open showing the ovules :—all enlarged. ol 
