172 THE WATERLILIES. 



from other syncarpous members of the genus. Rhizome horizontal, long and creeping, 

 more or less branched. North temperate zone, south to Algeria, Cashmir, and British 

 Guiana. 



Nymphaea Candida Presl. (Plate XV; Fig. 66.) 



Leaves floating, crowded on the rhizome, phyllotaxy about 13 on 34; lowest pair 

 of veins on under side of leaf (veins of the lobes) curved toward one another. 

 Flower odorless, white, 6.4 to 7.6 cm. across. Line of insertion of the sepals angular, 

 projecting downward. All of the filaments broader than the anthers. Ovary much 

 contracted and destitute of stamens immediately below the stigmas. Fruit ovoid, seed 

 large. 



Nymphaea Candida, Presl 1822, fid. specimens coll. Topitz, Flora exsiccata austro-hungarica, No. 



1282, "in stagno Egersee ad pagum Sonnberg prope urbem Gratzen (locus classicus)." 



Reichenbach 1845. Planchon 1853 b. Schuchardt 1853. Celakovsky 1867. Caspary 1879. 



Grisebach 1882. Gerard 1892. Tricker 1897. Moenkemyer 1897. Conard 1901 a. 

 N. alba, Linnaeus 1753; 1762 (in part), and other European authors. 

 N. alba oocarpa, Caspary 1855 = A/, alba oligostigma Casp. 1863; 1865. 

 N. biradiata, Sommerauer 1833, fid. specimens coll. Sommerauer, in Tricbnersee in Styria in hbb. 



Paris, Boissier, and coll. Wettstein, Flora exsiccata austro-hungarica, No. 1281. Coll. Statzer 



in I. Dorfler's Herb. Norm., No. 3502; coll. Keller in Magnier, Fl. select, exsicc. No. 3453; 



coll. F. G. Strobl, " in aquis stagnantibus : Triebner vel Gaishornsee vallis Paltinae (locus 



classicus)." Reichenbach 1845. Fries 1846. Planchon 1853 b. Schuchardt 1853. 

 N. semiaperta, Klinggraeff 1848, fid. F. Schulz, Herb. Norm. nov. ser. Cent. 3, No. 207, and 



specimen coll. Caspary, Aug. 9, 1859, near Konigsberg, in hb. Boissier. Schuchardt 1853. 

 N. neglecta, Hausleutner 1850, fid. specimen coll. R. Fritz, July, 1870, in a pond near Rybnick, 



Ober-Schlesien, in hb. Berlin. 

 N. Kosteletzkyi, Palliardi MS., fid. Lehmann 1852 b, and specimens sent by Palliardi to Lehmann, 



from hb. Lehmann in hbb. Kew, Berlin. Schuchardt 1853. 

 N. fauciradiata, Bunge, in Meyer & Bunge 1829 = ./V. alba Patrin, fid. Meyer & Bunge, 1. c. ; fid. 



specimens coll. Ledebour, 1845, in the Altai region, in hbb. Paris, Munich. 

 N. intermedia, Weiker, in Reichenbach 1842. 

 N. Basniniana, Turczaninow 1842, fid. specimens sent by Turczaninow from hb. St. Petersburg, in 



hbb. Kew, Boissier, DeCandolle = N. basliiniatia, Steudel 1841. 

 N. Cachemiriana, Cambessedes in Jacquemont 1844, fid. original specimens in hb. Paris = N. alba 



var. Kashmiriana, Hook. & Thorns. 1855. Hooker 1872. 

 N. punctata, Kar. & Kir. 1842, fid. Casp. 1879, from Semenow 1854, and specimens coll. Kar. & 



Kir. " in Songoriae lacubus prope fluvium Lapsa," in hbb. Berlin, Paris, DeCandolle. 

 N. alba, L. var. minor DC., f.d. specimen coll. Fischer, 1819, in hb. DeCandolle. Besler 1613, cf. 



Flora 1833. Schuchardt 1853. =W. minor Reichenbach 1842; 1845. =N. permixta, 



Boreau 1859. 

 A'. Milletii, Boreau 1859, fid. specimen coll. Ed. Longeron, June 12, 1861, Maine et Loire (locus 



classicus?) in hb. British Museum. 

 N. Wenzelii, Maack in litt., fid. plate from Ruprecht 1859, in hb. British Museum. 



DESCRIPTION. Flower floating, 6 to 13 cm. in diameter. Sepals 4 (or 5) oblong 

 or ovate-oblong (3.8 cm. long by 1.3 cm. wide), narrowed at apex, acute or obtuse,about 

 /-veined, green outside, white within. Petals 12 to 20, white, oblong to oblong-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse or somewhat acute, 7-nerved, outer ones nearly as long as the sepals. 

 Stamens 32 to 70, shorter than in N. alba, grading inward from the petals, orange- 

 yellow; filaments lanceolate (outer) to linear-lanceolate (inner), long acuminate, never 

 narrower than the anthers, usually inserted only on the sides, not on the summit, of 



