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many series on the receptacle. Filaments petaloid, the outer 

 broad with small anthers, the inner narrow with longer anthers. 

 Carpels immersed in the fleshy receptacle, and united with it 

 into a many-celled, half-inferior ovary. Ovules numerous, 

 pendulous from the cell-walls. Berry spongy, ripening under 

 water, and then breaking irregularly. Seeds immersed in the 

 pulp, with a sack-like aril open at the apex, and with a large 

 perisperm in addition to the small endosperm. 



Species 32, natives chiefly of the northern hemisphere and 

 tropics, but found also in South Africa and Australia. 



Flowers diurnal. Connective appendaged 1. N. ampla. 



Flowers nocturnal. Connective not appendaged. 



Leaves with entire margin 2. N. amazonum. 



Leaves with sinuate-dentate margin 3. N. litidgeana. 



1. Flowers diurnal, raised above the water ; connective of 

 outer anthers produced into an appendage ; carpels free 

 from one another at the sides ; styles short, conical, 

 narrowed to apex, stiff and fleshy. 



1. N. ampla DC. Syst. IL 54 (1821) ; Macf. Jam. i. 19 ; Griseb. 

 Fl. Br. W. Ind. 11 ; Conard Waterlilies 134, t. 5. N. ampla var. 

 Plumieri Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xix. 44 (1853) ; Casj). in 

 FL Bras, iv.pt. 2, 156, it. 28-30; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 235. N. 

 indica flore candido in ambitu serrato Sloane Cat. 120 & Hist. i. 

 '2d'2. N. foliis amplioribus &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 243. l!^. Lotus 

 L. Sp. PI. 511 (1753) (so far as regards American specimens). 



Lagoons, Caymanas, Sloane ; lagoons beyond Ferry, Broimie ; Sliak- 

 spearl Ferry & St. George, Macfadyenl "Alligator Pond, St. George," 

 Oshorne ! March ! near Spring Garden, Espeiit ! Mitcham, St. Elizabeth, 

 Key ! Ferry, Fawcett & Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7933. Central America and West 

 Indies from 14^ to 26" n. lat. 



Leaves 15-40 cm. br., roundish, peltate, sinuate-toothed or nearly 

 entire, lobes acute, under-snrface red-purple. Floicers wbite, 7-18 cm. br. 

 Sepals oblong-lanceolate, outer surface green marked with blackish lines. 

 Petals 7-21, oblong-lanceolate, outermost tinged yellowish-green, Sta7ncns 

 90-190, yellow, outermost much longer than innermost. Carpels 14-23. 

 The petals are arranged in an indefinite spiral on the receptacle, and the 

 stamens follow similarly without much interval. 



Var. speeiosa Casp. torn. cit. 158, t. 29, /. 1-9, /. 30,/. 1 : 

 of medium size ; leaves not large nor very leathery, with wavy or 

 toothed margin, the teeth obtuse, nerves beneath not prominent, 

 stamens 40-130. Urh. loc. cit. Conard op. cit. 136. N. speeiosa 

 Mart. & Zucc. in Ahh. Ahad. Muencli. i. 361 (1832). 



Dancer ! Macfadyen ; Wilscni ! West Indies and Tropical America 

 from 19 n. lat. to 23 s. lat. " This is the form cultivated in Europe as 

 N. ampla sent to Kew from Jamaica by Macfadyen in 1847 or 1848, and to 

 Caspary from Caracas by Dr. Ernst in 1869 " (Conard). 



