takes no notice of the club-shaped processes, and compares the 
species with the WV. nitida, Sims, in Bot. Mag. t. 1359 (‘cul 
inter omnes maxime affinis”),—a Siberian plant, and probably 
a mere form of our WV. alba. Yet, singular enough, he gives, as 
a synonym, WV. glandulifera of Rodsche (1 know not where de- 
scribed), so named in all probability on account of the presence 
of these large club-shaped glands or processes, but of which 
Meyer says, “ Nomen Rodscheio, stigmatis radius pro glandulis 
habente, huic stirpi impositum, quia ex errore proditt, rejecimus.” 
- Thus, by unintentionally confessing his own blunder, he leads us 
to believe in the presence of these bodies. Meyer probably mis- 
took them for an inner series of stamens. M. Planchon’s third 
section of Nymphaea, Hyprocau1s, is mainly distinguished by 
their presence, and includes seven species, all tropical American ; 
among them the V. Amazonwm of Martius and Zucearini, which 
differs from the d/anda in little save the presence of a sub- 
-membranaceous hairy ring at the top of the petiole, just below 
— its insertion on the leaf. We refer our plant, then, to that, 
rather than to WV. dlanda, which is destitute of that ring, and 
must leave it for future investigation to determine how far the 
character is constant. 
- Descr. Our plant can be described in few words. Leave 
-suborbicular, cordate, obtuse, coriaceo-membranaceous, entire or 
- sinuato-dentate, glabrous, bright-green above, usually reddish 
beneath, the sinus at the base very deep, the lobes large, obtuse, 
generally slightly overlapping ; the length in our specimen little 
more than four inches, but they often attain three or four times 
that size. Petiole terete, purple, having at the summit, just 
below the insertion upon the leaf, an evident hairy or villous 
ring. Flower very fragrant, rather small, between three and 
four inches in diameter, opening at about eight or nine in the 
evening. Sepals four, yellow-green, purple at the base, and 
often streaked with purple in interrupted lines, oblong, obtuse. 
Petals scarcely shorter than the calyx, yellowish-white, about 
twenty-five; outer ones green on the back ; inner the smallest. 
Stamens about as many as there are petals; outer ones with 
somewhat petaloid filaments ; inner linear. Azthers linear, scarcely 
appendiculate. Stigma yellow, downy, with about twenty-two 
rays, and from beneath each ray arises a clavate fleshy body, 
almost an inch long, curving over the top of the stigma, and 
collectively forming a crown around it. 
Fig. 1. Ovary, with its crown of club-shaped processes. 2. Inner stamen. 3- 
Outer stamen :—-magnified. 
