ii8 VIII. NYMPH^ACE^. [Barclay a. 



than B. Motley i, but the sepals are those of B. Motley i, as indeed is the whole 

 flower. In the Setul plant some of the leaves are lanceolate cordate. 



(3) B. longifolia Wall. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 442, t. 18; Hook, 

 fil. F.B.I, i. 115 ; Ic. PL 809, 810. 



Glabrous. Leaves narrow oblong, all deeply cordate at base, 

 lobes rounded, 6 to 8 in. long, i to 1-5 in. wide; petioles 4 to 9 in. 

 long. Peduncle 6 to 12 in. long, slender. Sepals 75 to i in. long, 

 •25 in. wide, lanceolate apiculate keeled. Petals oblong-linear 

 blunt. Fruit sub-globose. Seeds globose, apiculate. Hah. Run- 

 ning streams. Lankawi (Curtis). Disirih. Burma, Andamans. 



3. NELUMBIUM, Juss. 



A large aquatic with a stout rhizome. Leaves round peltate 

 glaucous green, on a tall petiole, high above the water. Flowers 

 large rose pink, white or yellow, fragrant. Sepals 4 or 5 caducous. 

 Petals and stamens many hypogynous, many-seriate caducous; 

 anthers with a clubbed appendage. Ovaries many one-celled sunk 

 in the flat top of a turbinate disc, ovules i or 2. Carpels ovoid, 

 loose in the fibrous spongy torus. Seed ovoid, testa leathery. 

 Species 2, i Asiatic, the other West Indian. 



(i) N. speciosum Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 1258; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 647; Wight, III. i. t. g; King, I.e. ^gi. 



Leaves i to 2 ft. across concave glaucous. Peduncles and 

 petioles 3 to 5 ft. long, smooth or prickl3^ Flowers 4 to 6 in. 

 across. Petals elliptic, rose pink (rarely white or deep rose). 

 Fruiting torus 2 to 4 in. across. Hab. Abundant in ditches in 

 Province Wellesley, and in Pahang near the Pahang River by Pekan 

 in swamps. Frequently cultivated by Chinese, who eat the rhizome 

 and carpels. Possibly not native here. Native names: Seroja; 

 Teratai. 



Order IX. CRUCIFERiE. 



Herbs, often annual, or biennial. Leaves herbaceous, mostly 

 radical, entire or lobed. Flowers bisexual, racemed terminal. 

 Sepals 4, in 2 series. Petals 4, hypogynous, arranged crosswise, 

 equal, white, yellow, or pink. Glands usually 4 (or 2 or 6) at base, 

 or forming a lobed ring. Stamens hypogynous 6; filaments sub- 

 ulate; anthers basifixed, sagittate. Ovary of 2 connate carpels; 

 ovules many (rarely few) parietal; style simple. Stigmas 2. 

 Fruit a siliqua or silicula, 2-celled. Seeds sub-globose, usually 

 exalbuminous. Whole world, rare in the tropics. 



NASTURTIUM, Br. 



Small herbs, leaves usually lobed. Flowers small, white or 

 yellow. Sepals short. Petals hardly clawed. Pod short or 



