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THE WATERLILIES. 



DESCRIPTION. Flowers 10 to 15 cm. across, sweet scented (" duftet sehr aromat- 

 isch "). Sepals 4, obovate, broadly rounded above, with numerous longitudinal veins, 

 8.3 cm. long by 2.5 cm. wide. Petals about 22, broadly obovate, with one to several 

 longitudinal veins. Stamens about 125, stout and thick, all appendaged, the innermost 

 very shortly so. Carpels about 23 ; stigma shallow, flat. Leaf orbicular-ovate, entire, 

 21 cm. wide by 25.5 cm. long; sinus margins nearly straight, lobes diverging, obtuse; 

 green on both sides; veins prominent; primary veins 7; principal area 7 cm. long. 



Fio. es.-Numpliaca stuldmannit: Flower, under side of leaf, and outer stamen. Drawn by J. Pohl, from the 

 type in hb. Berlin, by kind permission of the Directors. Seduced one-half; stamen natural size. 



DISTRIBUTION AND TYPE. Coll. Stuhlmann, No. 410, July 16, 1890, at " Uniam- 

 weni, Gunda mkali, bei Bibisande," Africa, altitude 1,200 m., in hb. Berlin. 



NOTES. A single sheet of this plant exists in the Berlin collection ; it has one leaf, 

 two separate open halves of a large flower, and one small wrinkled flower enough to 

 show that a splendid garden plant is yet to be introduced. 



