184 FLORA OF JAMAICA NympJuxa 



Var. pulehella Cmp. torn cit. 159, t. 30, /. 2-10 ; flowers of 

 medium to small size ; stamens 30 to 50 ; leaves with margin 

 sub-entire or slightly repand-sinuate, veins slender scarcely 

 prominent.— Coj»ar<i op. cit. 136. N. pulehella DC. Syst. i. 51 

 (1821).. 



Pond half-way between May Pen and Chapelton, Harris\ Fl. Jam. 

 11,002. — Bahamas, Cuba, Vieques, St. Cruz, South America from 2° s. lat. 

 to 23° s. lat. 



Leaves 12-17 cm. 1., 9-14 cm. br. Petals 3 cm. 1. 



§ 2. Flowers floating, nocturnal ; petals in whorls of 4, 

 alternate with the sepals and with each other, the stamens 

 continue the arrangement, the outer 4 or .8 being some- 

 what petaloid ; anthers without an appendage ; carpels 

 not free from one another ; styles slider with enlarged 

 club-shaped tips. 



2. N. amazonum Mart. <f- Zucc. in Abh. Aiad. Muench. i. 363 

 (1832); leaves, margin entire, petiole bearing a ring of ^ong 

 hairs at top. — Casp. torn. cit. 165, t. 35, /. 3-15 ; Urb. loc. cit. ; 

 Conard op. cit. 200,- /. 19. N.blanda Mac/, loc. cit. (excl. syji.). 

 N. Rudgeana var. amazonum Griseb. op: cit. 12. (Fig. 73.) 



Spanish Town, Dr. D. Moore ; Montpelier, St. Thomas in the East, 

 Macfadyen. — Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Colombia, Guiana, Surinam, 

 Brazil. 



Leaves (mature), to 17 cm. 1., to 14 cm. br., roundish-ovate, peltate, 

 lobes rounded ; under surface brownish-red. Flowers yellowish-white, 

 7 "5-15 cm. br. Sepals elliptical, acuminate, about 5 cm. 1. Petals 16-20, 

 ovate to oblong, 3-4-5 cm. 1. Stamens 93 to 297 (Caspary), 2- nearly 

 3 cm. 1. Carpels 25-35. Fruit subspherical with the sepals and outer 

 petals attached loosely round it, nearly 4 cm. in diam. 



3. N. Rudgeana G. F. W. Meyer Prim, Fl. Esseq. 198 (1818) 

 (excl. syn. Sloane and Browne) ; leaves, margin sinuate-dentate, 

 petiole quite glabrous. — Griseb, op. cit. IT (excl. syn.) Casp. torn, 

 cit. 160 ; Conard op. cit. 204, t. 20. N. blanda Planch, op. cit. 47 

 (non G. F. W:' Meyer). 



Spanish Town, Dr. D. Moore; St. Elizabeth, March\ — Martinique, 

 Guiana, Surinam, Brazil. 



Leaves (mature) elliptical to roundish, to 40 cm. 1. FUnoers greenish- 

 yellow, 6 5-15 '5 cm. br. Sepals oblong-ovate, 3*6 cm. 1. Petals 12-32, 

 elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, 2 •5-3 "6 cm. 1. Stamens 40-80 inserted at 

 the summit of the receptacle, l'3-2*3 cm. 1. Carpels 11-24. Fruit 

 bearing the funnel-shaped stigma, surrounded by the persistent sepals, 

 petals and stamens, about 4 cm. in diam. 



Hemsley (Biolog. Central.- Amer. Bot. i. 25) quotes N. blanda Meyer as 

 from Jamaica, but the specimeU in Herb. Kow. (a cultivated one from 

 Hort. Glasnevin received from Jamaica), on which probably this citation 

 is based, is N. blanda Planch, (non Meyer). 



