NympJueaJ\ floka indica. 241 



sub-16, nppendiculis brevibus cyliudraceis, seminibus minutis. — DC. 

 Syst. i. 56; Led. FL Ross. i. 83. 



/3. Kashmiriana; ovario pubescente v. villoso. — N. Cachemiriana, 

 Camhrss. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 11. t. 10. N. Kosteletzkyi, Palliardi mss. 

 in Lei . Hamb. Garten und Blumenz. viii. 369. N. alba, var. Koste- 

 letzkyi, Planchon, Etudes snr les Nymph. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xix. 53. 



Hab. Kashmir, alt. 5300 ped., Winterbottom ! — Var. /3. Kashmir, 

 Jacquemont. — (FL Apr. Mai.) (v. v.) 



Distrib. Europ. total Sibirial Am. Bor.I 



Folia suborbiculata, coriacea, vix aut non peltala, subtus tenuiter venosa, integer- 

 rima, lobis parallelis v. subdivergentibus. Sepala liueari- v. ovato-oblouga, reticu- 

 latim nervosa. Peiala sub-10, exteriora sepalis rcquilonga, lineari-oblonga. Sta- 

 te- a perplurima, iilamentis subdilatatis. Stir/maiis appendices suberecti. Pollen 

 ecbinulatum. Sernina punctis minutis leviter striata. 



Our specimens are certainly referable to the common white Water-lily of Europe. 

 Planchoa remarks, under N. Cachemiriana, which he had not seen, that it is too 

 nearly allied to N. alba, of which we do not doubt that it is a form, though the 

 plate in Jacquemont's Voyage is in many points unlike that plant, the petals being 

 too narrow and acute, and the fruit different-looking. It is, however, impossible to 

 figure Nympha* from dried specimens. Cambessedes describ. the fruit as lanate ; 

 and we find, from a memorandum by Lehmann in the Hookerian Herbarium, that 

 the ovary of N. Kosteletzkyi is villous. Planchon has referred N. Kosteletzkyi to 

 2V". alia. 



2. N. Lotus (L. Sp. PI. 729); foliis argute sinuato-dentatis, se- 

 palis oblongis obtusis 5-7-costatis, petalis liueari- v. ovato-oblongis, 

 Iilamentis basi late dilatatis, antheris inappendiculatis, stigmatis appen- 



dicibus cylindraceo-clavatis. m 



a. Lotus; foliis subtus dense pubescentibus orbiculatis remformi- 

 busve lobis divergentibus approximatisve, floribus amphs rubris roseis 

 albidisve.— N. Lotus, Delile, Fl. jEgypt. t. lx. /. 1 ; DO. Syst. u. o3^ N. 

 rubra, Roxb. Fl. Lnd. ii. 576 ; DC. Syst. ii. 52 ; Wight et Am Prod 

 i. 17 ; Wight. III. i. t. 10 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 503 ; Bot. Mag. t 1280 

 et 1364 : Wall. Cat. 7255 ! N. Devoniensis, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4065. 

 N. edulis, DC. Syst. ii. 52; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 578; Wall, Cat 7254 ! 

 Castalia magnifica, Sal. Par. Lond, t. 14. C. mystica, Ann. Bot. u. 16. 

 N. semisterilis, Lehmann, Ueber die Gattung Nymph&a, 23. 



/3. cordifblia ; foliis subtus dense pubescentibus cordato-ovatis lo- 

 bis divergentibus, floribus mediocribus albis v. carneis. 



y. pubescent; foliis subtus puberulis pubesceiitibusve floribus mi- 

 noribus albis roseis rubrisve.— N. pubescens, Willd.^ ull. ii. 11&*J 

 DC. Syst. ii. 52, Prod. i. 115 ; Bhme 9 Bijdr. i. 48 ; Wght etAm.Prod. 



Wall 



in Linn. Soc. Trans, xx. 29. . rtLia i 



Hab. a et y. Per totam Indiam calidam vulgaris.— /3. Chittagong ! 



(Fl. per totum annum.) (v. v.) 



Distrib. Africa borealis ! et tropica! Hungana! Java! ins. Philip.! 



Folia 6-unc. ad pedalia, jnnioia snbsngittata Flares 2-10 unc. lati. Pollen 



beve. Semina elliptico-rotundata, papillosa v. subscaberula. c _; moIia 



Among the Indian varieties of this plant, we believe that we have seen spec.mens 



2 I 



