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THE WATERLILIES. 



or orbicular, cleft nearly to the petiole, 2.5 to 8.2 cm. long, reddish beneath, with 

 black specks. Seed smooth. 



N. Heudelotii, Planchon 1853 b, according to the original specimen. 



N. pseudo-pygmaea, Lehmann 1853 a, according to the original specimen in hb. Kew, which con- 

 sists of a submerged leaf, with flower and fruit, much dilapidated, coll. Heudelot and 

 communicated by hb. Paris. 



DESCRIPTION. Planchon gives the following : Dwarf, glabrous ; floating leaves 

 cordate-suborbiculate, very narrowly peltate, with the sinus narrow and nearly closed 



Fio. 56. Nymphaea heitdelotii ' (a), (ft), leaves ; (c), flower; 1, 8, S, 4, sepals. From a drawing of the 

 types in the notes of R. Caspary, now in hb. Berlin, by kind permission of the Directors. Natural size. 



(in the membranous submerged leaves wide open) ; margin slightly repand ; under sur- 

 face purplish, violet spotted. Flowers small ; sepals ovate at base, becoming rather long 

 attenuate, with violet lines outside ; petals 5 to 8, bluish, appendiculate, anthers five to 

 six times longer than the rather broader filaments ; rays of the stigma 8 to 10, short, 

 triangular, acute. Fruit globose, shorter than the calyx ; seed elliptic-globose, smooth 

 (not costate). 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Senegambia, in shallow flowing streams; Fouta 

 Dhiallon. 



TYPES. Coll. Heudelot, No. 844, in 1837, seen in hbb. Delessert, Berlin, and Kew. 

 In hb. Kew I saw another specimen consisting of a half-closed flower and two frag- 



