MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 149 
open wide the first night when the ovary is receptive. In this 
case the opening is gradual, it being three days before the 
flower is fully expanded. The first day or night the flower is 
eylindrical ; the next day the petals begin to open wider; and 
on the third day the flower is entirely open, being bell-shaped, 
and extending below the water level in the same expanded 
manner, the sepals and petals never changing their position. 
The seed pod is very small and practically sterile. Several 
seed pods were examined and in each case only one or two 
viable seeds were to be found in the carpels. 
Description.—F lowers nocturnal and diurnal, bell-shaped, 
6-7 inches across or when forcibly expanded 10-12 inches, 
hermosa pink, fading with age; stamens dark hermosa pink, 
lighter towards the base; leaves 12—14 inches across, orbicular, 
dentate, brownish green, turning dark green with age; seed 
pod small, almost sterile. 
xX NYMPHAEA “JAMES GURNEY, JR.” PRING 
The flowers and leaves of this hybrid present the darkest 
colors of any of the night-blooming varieties. The color in 
both leaf and flower is solid throughout, showing no inter- 
mediate shades as do the other forms. The flowers may be 
distinguished from those of ‘‘B. C. Berry’’ by the horizontal 
position of the sepals and petals when fully expanded. The 
plant is not a robust grower and does not reproduce readily 
from tubers. The seed pods are very small and contain very 
few fertile seeds. Nymphaea ‘‘Frank Trelease’’ is the pistil- 
late parent. 
Description.—F lowers nocturnal, 7-8 inches across, ama- 
ranth purple, very striking in view of the absence of inter- 
mediate shades; sepals and petals superimposed, taking a 
horizontal position; stamens dark amaranth purple, lighter 
towards the base; leaves 10-11 inches across, orbicular, 
denticulate, dark reddish brown, representing the darkest leaf 
coloration of the lotus type; seed pods almost sterile. 
xX NYMPHAEA “TULIPIFERA” PRING 
A seedling of unknown parentage which might be called a 
pygmy nocturnal variety. Its flowers are very striking, since 
they retain their bell shape throughout the flowering period, 
