62 VI. NYMPiLEACE^. [_Nymplim. 



]the seeds in size and shape, smaller, more oYoid, and more completely enclosed in the arillus 

 in those he refers to N, siellaia, tliaa in the true N. giganiea; but in the true N, stellata 

 the seeds are nearly globular, and usnally marked with raised lonf!;itudinal costse, not men- 

 tioned by r. Mueller, I have not myself seen the ripe seeds of Australian specimens. 

 The rhizome and fruits are used as an article of food by the aborigines. 



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3. NELUMBIUM, Jiiss. 



Sepals 4 or 5, free. Petals and stamens numerous, hypogynous. Anthers 

 opening inwards, the connective produced in a club-shaped appendage. Car- 

 pels several, half-immersed in the flat top of an obconical torus, the styles 

 shoitly projecting "with somewhat dilated terminal stigmas. Ovules 1 or 3 ni 

 each carpel, suspended from the top of the cavity with a dorsal raphe. Nuts 

 nearly globular, shortly protruding from the cells of the large flat- topped tonis. 

 Seeds with a spongy testa, without albumen; cotyledons thick and fleshy, 

 enclosing a much-developed plumula, radicle veiy short. — Leaves peltate, 

 supported above the water ozi erect petioles. Plowers solitaiy, on erect scapes 

 above the water. 



Besides the following Asiatic and Australian species, there is a second one from the AVcst 

 Indies, 



1. K. speciosum, Willd, ; JD<7. Prod. 1. 113. Leaves orbicular, pel- 

 tate, somewhat concave, 1 to 2 ft. diameter, (piite entire or slightly sinuate, 

 glabrous and often somewhat glaucous. Flowers pink, 4 to 8 in. diameter, 

 appendage of the anthers lincar-clubshaped. Fruit 2 to 4 in. diameter, the 

 nuts from the size of a pea to that of a small eherrv. — Bot, Mag. t, 8916, 

 3917. 



W- Australia. Swamps in Aruhem*s Land, F. Mueller ; Lower Condamiuc river, 



COX071, 



Queensland- Mackenzie river, F. Mueller. 



The species is widely distributed over the warmer regions of Asia^ extending northwards 

 to the Caspian Sea in the west, and to Japan in the east. 



Ordee YII. PAPAVERACE^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, or, in Timtariece, irregular. Sepals 2 or 3, 

 rarely 4, free, imbricate, very caducous. Petals 4, 6, or rarely 8 or 13, hypo- 

 gynous, free, imbricate, and often cnunpled in the bud, in 2 rarely 3 scrir'^ 

 deciduous. Stamens hypogj-uous, indefinite, and fi-ee, or, in Fumarieay defi- 

 nite, with the filaments usually united. Anthers erect, the cells opening lon- 

 gitudinally. Ovary free, either 1-cclled with parietal placentas often protrud- 

 ing into the cavity, or rarely completely several-celled by the placentas meeting 

 in the axis, or 2-celled by a false dissepiment connecting 2 parietal placentas. 

 Style short or none; stigmas as many as placentas, usually conflu'ent and ra- 

 diating on the disk-like or dilated top of the ovary or style. Ovules indefi- 

 nite, anatropous, ascending with an inferior micropyle or horizontal. Yn^^^ 

 capsular, usually opening in pores or valves. Seeds globular or subrcniform- 

 Embryo minute, at the base of a fleshy albumen. — -Herbs or rarely small 

 shmbs, glabrous and often glaucous or liispid, the juice usually coloured. 

 Leaves alternate or the floral ones almost opposite, entire, lobed or dissected 



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