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specimens of Nymphaeaceae, will not fail to send them to him for 

 examination, as many of our most eminent savans have already 

 done.* 



NYMPHiEA. 



De Cand. Sj/st. Veget. vol. ii. p. 49; Endl. Gen. Plant. No. 5020 ; 

 Planch, in Flore des Serves et Jard. vol. vii. p. 293. 



Coordinatio Nympheearum, adjectis descriptionibus novarum spe- 

 cierum. 



Sect. I. APPENDICULAT^. 



Staminibus omnibus vel saltern exterioribus appendice conico elon- 

 gato colore petalorum supra antheras valde prominente instructis ; 

 foliis subpeltatis integerrimis vel subintegerrimis repandisve vel obso- 

 lete dentatis, rarius acute dentatis ; rhizomate abbreviato perpendicu- 

 lari tuberosi, vel discoideo v. subgloboso v. pyriformi v. fusiformi, 

 radicibus saepe valde incrassatis carnosis et bulbillis tuberibusve in 

 nounullis filo tenero matri alligatis. 



Trib. I. Ledcanthos (Cyanea, DC. ex parte). 



Floribus albis vel albo-virentibus. 



* Foliis integerrimis nervis tenuibus. No. 1 — 9. 

 ** Foliis amplis manifesto dentatis, nervis subtus prominentibus. 

 No. 10—15. 



Trib. II. Rhodanthos. 

 Floribus roseis. No. 16 — 18. 



Trib. III. BULBOPHYLLON. 



Foliis integerrimis inter lobos bulbilliferis, floribus albis carneis vel 

 caerulescentibus. No. 19 — 21. 



* Dr. Lehmann earnestly begs that botanists will be kind enough to allow him 

 the loan of their specimens of Nymphaeaceae. Any parcel addressed to Professor Dr, 

 Lehmann, Hamburg, Botanischer Garten, will reach its destination. « , . 



