TAXONOMY NYMPHAEA STENASPIDOTA. 209 



Nymphaea jamesoniana Planchon. (Plate XXIII.) 



Flower 87 to 107 mm. in diameter. Sepals green, densely marked from base to 

 apex with long narrow dark crimson lines, 3 to 7 mm. long by o.i to 0.05 mm. wide; 

 oblong-ovate, rather obtuse. Petals 16. Stamens 52 to 65. Carpels about 30; styles 

 6 to 10 mm. long, clavate, purplish-brown at apex. Leaves Mib-coriaceous, ovate- 

 cordate, cleft at base, sub-sagittate or elliptic, more or less peltate ; margins entire ; lobes 

 obtuse or acute ; under surface marked with dark purple forked and branching lines. 



Nymphaea lainrsniiiana, Planchon 1852/7; 18533 and b; fid. original specimen in lib. Delessert. 



Caspary 1878. Hemsley 1888. 

 N. sagittariaefolia, Lehmann 18530 and b; 1854; fid. specimen marked in Lehmann's handwriting 



in hh. Kew. 



DESCRIPTION.- Sepals 13 to 21 mm. wide by 40 to 46 mm. long. Petals 16, 

 oblong; those of the outer three whorls obtuse, of the inner whorl acute; all brownish- 

 yellow (in dried specimens), sub-membranaceous. Stamens like petals in color and 

 texture ; outermost with an acute triangular appendage, innermost obtuse ; outermost 

 filaments four times as wide as anther?, innermost filaments and anthers about equal 

 in width. 



Leaf thin and membranaceous ; lobes approximate or distant ; primary veins 6 on 

 each side, very slender, slightly immersed at base, elsewhere level ; principal area half 

 as long as radius of leaf. 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Savannah of Guayaquil (2n'25"S., 8o2'io"W.) 

 (Caspary 1878). Ecuador (Hemsley 1888). Ditches at Hatillo, Afiasco, Porto Rico, 

 coll. P. Sintenis, No. 5688, Dec. 7, 1886. 



NOTES. Fruit, seed, tuber and habits unknown. 



Nymphaea stenaspidota Caspary. (Plates XXI, XXIV.) 



Sepals densely marked with long slender fuscous stria?, oblong-ovate, somewhat 

 acute, never acuminate. Petals 20 to 24, short-oblong, obtuse. Stamens 60 to 67, re- 

 sembling those of N. gardneriana, but with narrower anthers. Carpels 18, clavate, 4 

 to 5 mm. long. Leaves ovate-triangular, sagittate, small, rounded at apex, entire, 

 scarcely peltate (i mm.) ; sinus margins straight. 



Nymphaea stenaspidota, Caspary 1878, fid. specimens coll. Gardner, No. 2476, and 3568, in hbb. 

 Berlin, Kew, British Museum. 



DESCRIPTION. Flower 91 to 100 mm. in diameter. Sepals 18 to 19 mm. wide 

 by 46 mm. long. Inner petals bearing abortive anthers, very short, elongate-ovate or 

 lanceolate. Stamens like those of N. gardneriana, but narrower ; outermost anthers 

 1.5 mm., innermost i mm. wide. 



Lobes of leaf acute, produced ; sinus large, triangular ; otherwise ac in N. gard- 

 neriana. 



Tuber ovate or sub-globose, small, 15 mm. in diameter, covered above with very 

 long brownish hairs. 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. In a small lake at Conceic.ao, province Goyaz, Brazil 

 (i2i5'S., 57 W.), collected by Gardner in 1841. 

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