42 NYMPHS ACE.E. 



Nymphaeacese. 



Conspectus of the Formos:m Genera. 



(1) Sepals and petals 3 each, free. Carpels free. Ovules few. 



Seeds albuminous Brasenia 1 



Sepals and petals 4-5, petals arid stamens indefinite. (2) 



(2) Carpels confluent with one another or with the disk into 



one ovary. Ovules many. Seeds albuminous . , Euryale 2 



Carpels irregularly scattered, sunk in pits of the turbinate 



disk. (Ovules 1-2. Seeds exalbumiuous Ndumlo 3 



1. Brasenla SCHREB. 



Brasenia purpurea GASP, "in Journ. Sc. Acad. Lisb. IV. p. 312" ; 

 HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa, p. 25. 



Hydropeltis purpurea RICHARD ; DO. Procl. I. p. 112. 



Brasenia peltata PUESH. ; HOOK. f. et THOMS. in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Tnd. 

 I. p. 113 ; FRANCH. et SAY. Euum. PL Jap. I. p. 25. 



HAB. Girau : Kentozau. 



DISTRIB. Commonly found in Japan, distributed in eastern North 

 America and eastern Australia. Not yet known from China. 



OBSERV. Flowers solitary, sessile, pedunculate ; leaves peltate, elliptical, 

 10 cm. long, 6.5 cm. bror.l. 



2. Eiiryale SALISB. 



Euryale ferox SALISB. ; KONIG. et SIMS. Ann. Bot. II. p. 74 ; DC. 

 Prodi-. I. p. 114 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1447 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 33 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 17 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. 

 p. 19. 



HAB. in swamps in the vicinity of Taihoku. 



DISTRIB. Northern India and Japan. 



