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sepals, marked with faint purplish lines, the outer ones sepaloid on the back, with 

 broad white margins. Stamens in 4 series; outermost with anther cells 6 to 7 mm. 

 long. Carpels about 18. 



Castolia Gibertii, Morong 1893, in Morons: & Britton. 



Leticonymphaea Gibertii, Morong MS. on co-type in hb. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Paraguay, collected on the Pilcoinayo River above 

 Asuncion by Gibert in 1858 (in hb. Kew), and by Dr. Thos. Morong 1888-00, 

 in hbb. New York, etc. Flower, May and June. 



NOTES. The imperfect published description of this species does not give certain 

 evidence as to which section of the genus it belongs in ; but from the lines on the 

 sepals, the seriate arrangement of petals and stamens, and the locality in which it was 

 found, we suppose it belongs here. 



NAMES NOT ELSEWHERE ENTERED. 



Nymphaca albo-rosca, Teijsm., ex Repel. Tnd. Sem. Hort. Petrop. (1866) 101, fid. Index Kew- 

 ensis. Quid" 



N. advena, Soland. = Nuphar. 



N. arifolia, Salisb. = Nuphar. 



N. Cahlara, Donn, Hort. Cantabr. ed. vii, 159 = A', stcllata Willd.. Ad. Index Kewensis. 



A r . ceramica, Rump., Amb. 6: 173, pi. ?2 = Menyanthes indica Willd., fid. Roxburgh 1824. 



N. crenata, Amadeo, Bot. & Veg. Materia Medica of Porto Rico (Ph. J., 3 ser., vol. 18. London 

 1888, p. 761 ff-). Quid? 



N. crenulata, Raf., in Med. Repos. N. York, 5:354 (1808) name only; fid. Index Kewensis. Quid? 



N. exumbonata, Rupr., in Bull. Phys. math. Ac. Petersb. 12:219 (1854) =N. alba, fid. Index Kew. 



N. hastata, Michx. = Nuphar. 



N. hirta, Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn., in Tijds. Nedl. Indie 27: 38 (1864) ; fid. Ind. Kewensis. Quid? 



N. Kalmiana, Sims = Nuphar. 



N. longifolia, Michx. = Nuphar. 



N. lutea, Linn., Thunb., Walt. = Nuphar spp. 



N. macrophylla, Small = Nuphar. 



N. microphylla, Pers.= Nuphar. 



N. minima, Reichb. = Nuphar. 



N. nelumbo, Linn. = Nclumbo nucifera, Gaertn. 



.V. odorata, Willd., Hort. Berol. t. 39 = N. nitida, Sims, fid. Index Kewensis. 



AT. officinalis, Gater., PI. Montaub. gg = N. alba, fid. Index Kewensis. 



N. orbiculata, Harper = Nuphar. 



N. pentapetala, Wa\t. = Nelumbo lutea Willd. 



N. polysepala, Greene = Nuphar. 



N. pmnila Hoffm. = Nuphar. 



N. punctata, Kar. & Kir., in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. (1841), 376, fid. Index Kewensis. Quidf 



N. Reichardiana, Hoffm., Beitr. z. Kenntniss von Central-ostafrika. Inaug. Dissert. Tena, 1889 (not 

 seen). Quidf 



N. rubrodisca = Nuphar. 



N. rufescens, Willd. ex. Casp., in Journ. Sc. Math. Lisboa n. 16 (1873), reimpr. 8, name only, fid. 

 Index Kewensis. Quidf 



N. sagittata, Pers. = Nuphar. 



N. sagittifolia, Walt. = Nuphar. 



N. suaveolens, Dum., in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 3:7 (1864) =N. alba, fid. Inde: Kewensis. 



N. sumatraiia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 387, fid. Index Kewensis. Quidf 



N. umbilicalis, Salisb. == Nuphar. 



AT. Victoria, Schomb. Victoria. 



