Cyclea.] vii. menispermace^. 115 



flowers. Calyx turbinate glabrous, white or creamy, 4-partite to 

 the middle. Petals 4 linear. Drupes white pilose obliquely 

 horseshoe-shaped obovoid compressed; endocarp with 3 tubercled 

 ridges, "2 in. long. Hab. Hedges in lowlands up to 4000 ft. altitude 

 in forests. Singapore, Changi ; Tanglin ; Pulau Ubin. Malacca 

 (Griffith, Maingay). Bindings at Lumut. Perak, Thaiping Hills 

 (Derry, Kunstler) ; Gunong Kerbau at 4000 ft. altitude (Robinson). 

 Penang Hill (Maingay). Native name: Akar Gasing Bukit. 



(2) C. elegans King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 387; Aim. Bot. 

 Gard. Calc. vii. 116, pi. 132. 



Climbing shrub nearly quite glabrous. Leaves lanceolate- 

 ovate acuminate, base cordate or peltate membranous, glabrous; 

 nerves 5 radiating from base, 3 in. long, 175 in. wide; petioles 

 I in. long. Panicles slender, solitary, axillary. Male flowers 

 crowded minute. Anthers about 4 broad. Drupe pisiform, 

 slightly compressed; endocarp boldly tubercled. Hab. Perak, 

 Thaiping Hills, 1500 to 2000 ft. altitude, not common (Kunstler). 



Order VIII. NYMPHZEACEiE. 



Aquatic perennial herbs. Leaves usually floating round rarely 

 oblong, often peltate. Scapes i-flowered, naked. Sepals and 

 petals free hypogynous or adnate to a fleshy disc surrounding or 

 enveloping the carpels. Sepals 3 to 5. Petals 3 to 5 or manj/. 

 Stamens numerous. Carpels 3 or more in i whorl, free or connate 

 or sunk in pits in the disc. Stigmas as many as carpels, peltate or 

 decurrent. Ovules few or many. Fruit of connate carpels, or 

 separate indehiscent carpels, or often an enlarged turbinate disc 

 with the carpels sunk in the crown. Temperate and tropical 

 regions. Genera 8. Species 30 to 40. 



Carpels confluent with one another ; flowers showy white, 



blue, red or yellow, patent . . . . . i . Nymph.ea 



Carpels confluent with the disc into a berry ; flowers hardly 



opening, dull brown and pink . . . . .2. Barclaya 



Carpels irregularly scattered in a turbinate disc; flowers 

 large, showy . . . . . . . .3- Nelumbium 



1. NYMPILSIA, Linn. 



Large herbs with creeping rhizome. Flowers expanded floating 

 on long radical scapes, white, red or blue. Sepals 4. Petals in 

 many series, inner passing into stamens, all adnate to disc. Stamens 

 many; filaments petaloid; anthers small linear. Ovaries many 

 in I series sunk in the fleshy disc forming a many-celled syncarp 

 crowned by connate radiating stigmas. Fruit a berry. Seeds 

 small. Species 20, whole world. 



Leaves entire or slightly sinuate ; flowers white to blue . (i) N„ stellata 



Leaves toothed ; flowers white to pink . . . . (2) N. Lotus 



