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or many and scattered over the walls of the cells, anatropous or orthotro- 

 pous. Fruit formed of the connate carpels, or of separate and indehi'scent 

 carpels, or of the enlarged turbinate flat-topped disk with the nut-like 

 carpels sunk in its crown. Seeds naked or arilled ; albumen floury or 0; 

 embryo enclosed in the enlarged amniotic sac. — Distrib. Temperate 

 and tropical ; genera 8, species 30-40. 



Suborder I. N7jmph(Voe. Sepals 4-6. Petals and stamens inde- 

 finite. Carpels confluent with one another or with the disk into one 

 ovary. Ovules many. Seeds albuTninous. 



Sepals, petals and stamens |-Rnperior, inserted on the 



disk which is confluent with the carpels ... 1. Nymphcea. 



Sepals inferior; petals superior; carpels sank in the 



torus ... ... ... ... 2. Barclaya. 



Suborder II. Nehimhieoe. Sepals 4-5. Petals and stamens inde- 

 finite. CarpeU irregularly scattered, sunk in pits of the turbinate disk. 

 Ovules l-'l. 6^ee(i5 exalbuminous... ... ... S. Nelumbium. 



1. NvMPHiEA, L, 



Large herbs ; rootstock creeping. Floioers expanded, large, flonting 

 on long radical scapes. Sepals 4, adnate to the base of the disk. Petals 

 in many series, inner successively transformed into stamens, all adnate to 

 the disk. Filaments petaloid ; anthers small, linear, introrse. Ovaries 

 many, 1-seriate, sunk in the fleshy disk and forming with it a many- 

 celled syncarp crowned by connate, radiating, stigmas : ovules many, 

 anatropous. Fruit a spongy berry ripening under water. Seeds small, 

 buried in pulp. — Distrib. Species 20, most temperate and tropical 

 regions. 



1. N", STELLATA, "Willd. Leaves elliptic, deeply cordate, entire or 

 with obtuse shallow sinuate teeth, often blotched with purple below, 6 to 8 

 in. long. Flowers I'o to 9 in. in diam., blue (white, or pink in varieties), 

 petals 10 to 30, linear-lanceolate. Stamens 10 to 50, anthers with apical 

 appendages. Stigmatic rai/s 10 to 25. Frnit 1'5 to 2 in. in diam. Seeds 

 Bub-striate. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 1 1 4 : Hook. fil. & Th. Fl. Ind. i. 243 : 

 Wight Ic. V/ : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. ii. 90. 



Common throughout the warmer parts of the Indo-Malayan region. 

 Distrib. Australia. 



Yar. J. vijRsicoLOR, Hf. & Th. I. c. Flmver and leaves inter- 

 mediate between this and the next ; the former white, rose or blue. 

 N. versicolor, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 41 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 577 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1189; 

 Wall. Cat. 7257. N. punctata, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 29. 

 N. Edgeworthii and N. Hookeriana, Lehm. der Gatt. Nymph. 7 and 2J. 



Var. 2. PABViFLOru, Hf. & Th. I. c. Leaves and flotvers much 



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