74 NYMPHiEACE^. Cahomba. 



innermost or sometimes all of them lil^e stamiuodes. Stamens hypogynous, numerous and 

 densely imbricated over the receptacle and around the ovary, at length recurving, rigid and 

 persistent : filaments very short ; anthers linear ; apex covered by the glandular truncate 

 tip of the connective. Stigmas radiate upon the truncate summit of the 10-25-celled ovary. 

 Fruit corticate-baccate, naked. Seeds uot ariUate. 



1. CABOMBA, Aublet. (An aboriginal or unmeaning name.) — Slender, 

 mainly submersed, with capillary-dissected mostly opposite leaves, a few simple 

 peltate floating leaves and emersed flowers from their axils. — Hist. Guian. i. 321, 

 t. 124; Rich. Analyse du Fruit, 46, GO, & Ann. Mus. xvii. 230, t. 5; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 54 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 93, t. 38; Gasp. Fl. Bras. iv. pt. 2, 138, t. 37. 

 Nectris, Schreb. Gen. no. 610. — The following with three similar S. Ameri- 

 can species. 



C. Caroliniana, Gray. Floating leaves oblong-linear, obovatelinear, or elongated-oblong, 

 often witli a basal notch : flowers white, a pair of yellow spots on base of each petal : 

 stamens 6; anthers oval: seeds costate and the ribs muriculate. — Ann. Lye. N. Y. iv. 

 47 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Gardner in Hook. Ic. vii. 642 ; Gray, 1. c. 94, t. 38. C. Aubletii, 

 Michx. Fl. i. 206, as to N. Am. PI. C. aquatica, DC. Syst. ii. 36, in part. Nectris peltatn, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 239. N. aquatica, Nutt. Gen. i. 230; Ell. Sk. i. 416. — Stagnant waters, 

 N. Carolina in the low country and S. Illinois i to Florida and Texas. (Cuba ? ) 



2. BRASENIA, Schreb. Water-shield. (Unexplained, perhaps named 



for some obscure botanist.) — Gen. no. 938 ; Nutt. Gen. ii. 23 ; Gray, Gen. 111. 



i. 95, t. 39. Hydropeltis, Michx. Fl. i. 323, t. 29 ; Rich. Ann. Mus. xvii. 230 ; 



DC. Syst. ii. 37. — Single species, of wonderful distribution. 



B.* Schreberi, Gjiel. Leaves alternate, submersed (if any) unknown ; floating ones oval, 

 centrally peltate, entire (1 to 4 inches long) : flowers dull and dark purple : stems, peduncles, 

 &c. coated with a transparent jelly. — Sj-st. Veg. i. 853 ; Hook. f. & Jackson, Ind. Kew. i. 

 333. B. peltata, Pursh, Fl. ii. 389 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 55 ; Gray,l. c. 96, t. 39, and in ms. 

 of present work. The change to Gmelin's earlier name, evidently overlooked by Dr. Gray, 

 is in entire accord witli his own practice. B. Hijdropeltis, Muhl. Cat. 55 ; Eaf. Med. Fl. i. 90, 

 f. 17. B. nijmphoides, Baill. Hist. PI. iii. 82.^ Memjanthes peltata, Thunb. Nov. Act. Ups. 

 vii. 142, t. 4. M. ni/mpltoides, Tiiunb. Fl. .Tap. 82. Hydropeltis purpurea, Michx. 1. c. 324; 

 Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1147; DC. 1. c. 38. //. puUa, Salisb. Ann. Bot. ii. 74. Villursia peltata, 

 Rcem. & Schult. Syst. iv. 178. Limnanthemum peltatum, Griseb. Gent. 348, & in DC. Prodr. ix. 

 141. Cabomha peltata, F. Muell. PI. Vict. 15. — In still water. Nova Scotia and Canada, along 

 the Great Lakes to Minnesota and south to Texas; also Brit. Columbia to California; 

 fl. summer. (Mex. & Cuba, .Japan to Khasia, E. Australia, W. Trop. Africa.) 



3. NELtJMBO, Tourn., Adans. (Ceylonese name of the E. Indian species, 

 the Sacred Bean.) — Perennial by slender creeping rootstocks, some internodes 

 of which enlarge into a farinaceous propagating tuber with only a terminal bud, 

 sending up very large orbicular and centrally peltate entire leaves on long and 

 stout petioles, the upper face concave, and a scape bearing a very large flower : 

 seed and tubers edible. — Tourn. Inst. i. 261 ; Adans. P""am. ii. 76; Gtertn. Fruct. 

 i. 73, t. 19; Gasp, in Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 242, & Fl. Bras. iv. 

 pt. 2, 134. Nelumbium, Juss. Gen. 68; Turp. Ann. Mus. Par. vii. 210, t. 11 ; 

 Rich. ibid. xvii. 249, t. 5 ; DC., Endl., Benth. & Hook, (all freely adopting 

 Negundo). Cyamus, Salisb. Ann. Bot. ii. 75. — Two species, the Asiatic N. nu- 

 cifera, Goertn., with white or rose-colored flowers and 



1 Dunklin Co., Missouri, Bush. 



'^ Add syn. B. purpurea, Casp. in Engl. & Prantl. Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 2, 6. 



