Nymphaea. polyandrta monogynia. 577 



in the capsule. In all other respects they agree. It is by no 

 means so common as Lotus but infinitely more gaudy. 



2. N. Lotus. Willd. 2. 1153. 



Leaves orbicularly-peltate, margins sharply sinuate- 

 toothed, downy underneath. Flowers white. Berries 

 about twenty-celled, 



Teling. Tella-kalwa. 



Ambel. Rheed. Mai 11. t. 26. 



Hind. Koee. 



Sans. Koomooda. 



Beng. Shalook. 



It differs from N. rubra in the colour of the flowers 

 only. There is a beautiful rare variety with pink coloured 

 flowers. The white sort is found common in pools, &c. 

 of fresh water in every part of India ; it blossoms more 

 or less the w hole year, but chiefly during the rains. 



3. N. versicolor. R. 



Leaves oval, peltate, repand-dentate, posterior having 

 the sinus narrow wedge-shaped. Segments of the ray of the 

 stigma, fifteen, long, incurred. Berries fifteen-celled. 



A native of Bengal, where there are two varieties of it; 

 one pure white, the other pink of various shades. Flow- 

 ering time the rainy season. 



4. N. cyanea. R. 



Leaves roundish, peltate, obtuse, ma^^ins w^aved or 

 even, both sides smooth, posterior lobes overlapping each 

 other. Flowers azure ; apices of the anthers foliaceous. 

 Berries spherical, ten or twelve-seeded. 



Sans. Kahlara. 



Beng. Soond^; also Neel-pudmct. 



Teling. Neeti-kalwa. 



It is a native of similar places with the last two. 



Root the same as in rubra and Lotus. Leaves sorae- 



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