1922] 



PEING — A NEW HYBRID NYMPHAEA 327 



30, with styles oblong, obtuse, introrse, yellow; fruit globose, 

 well filled with fertile seeds; developed leaves narrowly peltate, 

 ovate to suborbicular, 16 inches long by 14 inches wide, with 

 sinuate margins becoming deeper at the base, almost entire at the 

 apex; sinuses overlapping, terminating into acuminate lobes, 

 green on the upper surface, faintly spotted with reddish brown, 

 fading away as the leaves develop, the under surface light green 



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flushed with pink; petioles light brown, measuring 6-8 feet whei 

 fully developed. 



Var. marmorata. — Flowers same as type; leaves light green, 

 irregularly blotched with reddish brown upon the upper surface. 



This marmoration is transfused from Nymphaea "Mrs. Edwards 

 Whitaker." 



