Nymphaea NYMPHAEACEAE-RANUNCULACEAE Clematis 



1. Nymphaea tetragona Georgi MM (Shui Lien; Sleeping Lotus). (G.M.641). Aquatic 

 herb; fls. VIII-IX. Eastern Asia and North America; locally in Che., Ku. Ponds 

 and lakes. Fig. 103. 



4. Nelumbo Adans. MM (Lien Shu) 



Large aquatic herb with milky juice: Ivs. peltate, raised high above the water: 

 fls. usually pink or white, sometimes yellow; petals and stamens many; carpels 

 many, sunk in the flat top of an obconic fleshy receptacle, with smooth bony pericarp : 

 seeds edible. 2 species, one in Asia and Australia, the other in tropical America. 

 {Nelumbo, the name in Ceylon.) 



1. Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. East Indian Lotus M (Lien) (B.M.385). Coarse 

 aquatic herb; fls. pink or white, VI- VIII; fr. IX-X. Southern Asia to Australia; 

 locally in An., Che., Ki., Ku. Ponds and lakes. Fig. 104. 



60. RANUNCULACEAE Crowfoot Family =g^f4 (Mao Ken K'o) 



Mostly terrestrial plants with colorless acrid juice and alternate Ivs. (except 

 Clematis): base of the petioles often clasping or sheathing the stem: sepals often 

 petaloid; petals sometimes wanting; stamens numerous: frs. achenes, follicles or 

 berries. About 35 genera with 1,000 species, throughout the world, but less abundant 

 in the tropics; 18 genera and over 170 species in China. J /f\ft\C 



Key to the Genera ^> A C % 



A. Vines, often woody, climbing by If. stalks 1 . Clematis . -,•'#*.« 



AA. Erect herbs and shrubs. ,\^ (_!• v Y 



B. Tall herbs or shrubs with large fls. (8cm. or more in diam.).. 2. PaeoniaW , "• 



BB. Herbs with small or medium-sized fls. \A -* •• / C 



C. Fr. an achene. X^' ^^"^ ' V*t 



Fls. subtended by an involucre of bracts which may re- >v ***• 



semble a calyx 3. Anemone 



Fls. without an involucre. 



Petals present ; fls. showy 4 . Ranunculus 



Petals lacking; fls. small and numerous 5. Thalictrum 



CC. Fr. a follicle. 



D. Flowers regular. 



Petals saccate at base, but not spurred 6. Semiaquilegia 



Petals forming long spurs 7. Aquilegia 



DD. Flowers irregular. 



Upper sepals spurred, enclosing the 2 upper spurred 



petals 8. Delphinium 



Upper sepals hooded, enclosing the 2 upper petals, 



which are not spurred 9. Aconitum 



1. Clematis Linn. Virgin's Bower WiWMU (T'ieh Hsien Lien Shu) 



Perennials, mostly woody vines, v/ith opposite usually compound Ivs., climbing by 

 twining If. stalks: fls. apetalous, usually perfect; sepals petaloid; carpels many, 

 developing into achenes with long persistent plumed styles. About 230 species, 

 mostly of north temperate regions; over 90 in China. (The Greek name of a slender 

 vine.) 



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