94 .- MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
ping one-third, the deeply undulated margins, and promi- 
nent acuminate lobes at the base. 
Description.—F lowers 7-8 inches across, opening 4-5 
days during August, fragrant; bud ovate-acuminate, green ; 
peduncle rising 1 foot above the water, in cross-section 
showing 9 main air-canals surrounded by 17, these again 
by irregular smaller ones; receptacles light yellow; sepals 
4-wedged, lanceolate, 34% inches long, 14% inches wide, 
prominently hooded at the apex, thick and fleshy in tex- 
ture, outer surface green, yellowish green at the base, striped 
with purple markings, shaded with blue at the margins, 
inner surface pinkish white, showing 10-12 nerves; petals 
20-25; outermost whorl lanceolate-obtuse, hooded at the 
apex, 31% inches long, % of an inch wide, the outer surface 
green prominently striped with purple, thick in texture ex- 
cept along the blue margins, 7—S-nerved, inner surface 
pinkish blue; inner whorls lavender-blue; stamens 140-150; 
outermost whorl 1% inches long, with appendages ovate- 
oblong at the base, yellow, brown on the dorsal side, pinkish 
blue at the apex; the inner whorls shorter and narrower 
toward the innermost, which are linear, yellow, white at 
the apex; carpels 25-30 with carpellary styles short, obtuse ; 
fruit globose, containing very few fertile seeds; leaves of 
submerged seedling ovate to deltoid, with acute lobes, pri- 
mary leaves light green, secondary leaves light green with 
prominent brownish marmorations; first floating leaves 
suborbicular with acute lobes, dark green sparsely spotted 
with brown, brownish pink on the under side; developed 
leaves orbicular, 14 inches across, deeply obtuse, sinuate- 
dentate, green on the upper surface, pinkish green beneath; 
basal portion of the leaves overlapping one-third, terminat- 
ing in acuminate lobes, producing flowers at the insertion 
of petiole and blade when not detached. 
NOTES 
The ladies attending the National Safety Congress visited 
the Garden September 19. 
Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the Garden, has 
been elected a trustee of the St. Louis Florists’ Club. 
During an absence of two weeks from the Garden, Mr. 
Alexander Lurie visited places of horticultural interest in 
New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. 
Mrs. Katherine H. Leigh, Secretary to the Director, is now 
in France, having been granted a leave of absence to accept 
a position in the personnel department of the American Red 
Cross. 
