DURING THE SUMMER OF 1901 329 
Decatur County, on the morning of August 13 (no. 1209). The 
plant was pretty well distributed over the pond, though not in 
great abundance. The specimens which resemble mine most 
Closely, of all the herbarium material I have examined, were col- 
lected by Rugel in 1843 in Lake Jamony (Iamonia) and near Tal- 
lahassee, Florida, but their age makes it impossible to tell what 
the color of their petals might have been. More recent specimens, 
collected near Tallahassee by N. K. Berg, and preserved in the 
herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, show the purple 
petals quite distinctly, besides resembling mine in general appear- 
ance as much as do those of Rugel. Both of these localities are 
within forty miles of mine. 
Castalia odorata latifolia var. nov. 
Leaves floating in deep water, orbicular with narrow sinus and 
-acute lobes, 4-6 dm. broad, the veins thick and prominent beneath 
and copiously anatomosing near the slightly upturned margins ; 
flowers large, the longest petals about 1 dm. long. Otherwise 
very similar to C. odorata. (Castalia reniformis Nash: not 
Nymphaea reniformis Walt.) 
The identity of Walter’s Vymphaca reniformis * has long been 
a puzzle. His description, ‘‘foliis reniformibus, corollis poly- 
‘petalis, loculis monospermis,”’ does not fit any known plant, and 
Mr. E. G. Baker, of the British Museum, has informed me that 
there is no specimen of it in Walter’s herbarium. Willdenow, 
Pursh and Elliott took up the species on Walter’s authority, ap- 
‘parently without being themselves acquainted with it, Willdenow 
placing it in Ve/umbium, probably on account of the phrase “ locu- 
‘lis monospermis,” which may have been an error. Delessert’s 
figure, probably the only one which pretends to represent the 
‘species, shows a flower much like that of Cas¢alia odorata, anda leaf 
with the basal lobes rounded as in Nymphaea (Nuphar), but with 
the venation of Castalia. If this figure is trustworthy (and it has 
* Nymphaea reniformis Walt. Fl. Car, 155. 1788; DC. Syst. 2: 55. 1821; 
Delessert, Ic. Select. 2: 3. p/. 5. 1823; DC. Prodr. 1: 115. 1824. 
Nelumbium reniforme Willd. Sp. Pl. 2: 1260. 1799. 
Cyamus reniformis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 398. 1814; Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 
68. 1821. 
Nymphaea odorata 3 Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 57. 1838. 
XV. odorata reniformis Lehm. Nymphaea, 13. 1853 (?) 
