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8 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
the innermost, which is linear and white at the apex; carpels 
30-35, with styles oblong, obtuse, introrse, yellow; fruit 
globose, containing a low percentage of fertile seeds; leaves 
of submerged seedling light green, linear-ovate to deltoid, with 
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а 
Fig. 4. Nymphaea “Mrs. a, Ira a, submerged leaves of seed- 
ling; b, first floating leaf. Natural s 
acute lobes; first floating leaves ovate, light green occasion- 
ally spotted with dark green on the upper surface, dark red 
densely spotted with purplish blue on the under side; de- 
veloped leaves narrowly peltate, suborbicular, 1 foot 3 inches 
across with deeply sinuate margins, almost entire at the apex; 
sinuses overlapping, terminating into ovate, acuminate lobes, 
dark green on the upper surface, rarely spotted with brownish 
green at the base, the under surface light green densely 
spotted with purplish blue spots, becoming smaller towards 
the margin; petioles dark green, often measuring 8-10 feet 
when fully developed. 
x NYMPHAEA “MRS. EDWARDS WHITAKER” HORT. VAR. MARMORATA 
PRING, N. VAR. 
Description.—F lowers same as in the type; leaves of sub- 
merged seedling light green spotted with dark green on the 
upper surface, linear-ovate to deltoid, lobes acute; first float- 
