Podophyllum.} VI. BEHBERIDE.E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 113 



middle or base; lobes cuneate, acutely serrate. Peduncle terminal in bud, then appa- 

 rently supra-axillary or inserted on the petiole of the upper leaf. Flowers 1-1^ in. 

 diara. Sepals very deciduous. Petals 6, sometimes 4 (Boyle} t obovate-oblong. Berry 

 1-2 in., ellipsoid, red, edible. 



ORDER VIL NYMPHJEACE-ffi, (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Aquatic perennial herbs. Leaves usually floating, often peltate, margins 

 involute in vernation. Scapes 1-flpwered, naked. Floral-whorls all free, 

 hypogynous or adnate to a fleshy disk that surrounds or envelops the car- 

 pels, /Sepals 3-5. Petals 3-5, or many. /Stamens many. Carpels 3 or more 

 in one whorl, free or connate or irregularly sunk in pits of the disk ; stigmas 

 as many as carpels, peltate or decurrent ; ovules few, or many and scattered 

 over the walls of the cells, anatropous or orthotropous. Fruit formed of the 

 connate carpels, or of separate and indehiscent carpels, or of the enlarged 

 turbinate flat-topped disk with the nut-like carpels sunk in its crown. 

 Seeds naked or arilled ; albumen floury or ; embryo enclosed in the en- 

 larged amniotic sac. DISTEIB. Temperate and tropical ; genera 8, species 

 30-40. 



SUBORDER I. Cabombeae. Sepals and petals 3 each, free. Carpels free. 

 Ovules few. Seeds albuminous. 



1. BRASENIA. 



SUBORDER II. Nymphaeae. Sepals 4-6. Petals and stamens indefinite. 

 Carpels confluent with one another or with the disk into one ovary. Ovules 

 many. Seeds albuminous. 



Sepals, petals and stamens ^-superior, inserted on the disk, which 



is confluent with the carpels 2. NYMPH.EA. 



Sepals inferior ; petals superior ; carpels sunk in the torus ... 3. BARCLAYA. 



Sepals, petals and stamens superior. Carpels sunk in the torus . 4. EURYALE. 



SUBORDER III. Nelumbieee. Sepals 4-5. Petals and stamens indefi- 

 nite. Carpels irregularly scattered, sunk in pits of the turbinate disk. 

 Ovules 1-2. Seed exalbuminous. 



5. NELUMBIUM. 



1. BRASENIA, Schreber. 



A slender aquatic, with a creeping rootstock. Stem branched. Leaves 

 alternate, peltate, floating; petioles and peduncles clothed with mucus. 

 Flower red, peduncles axillary. Sepals 3. Petals 3, linear. Stamens 12-18; 

 anthers linear, slits lateral. Disk small. Ovaries 6-18, cylindric ; stigma 

 dilated, villpus ; ovules 2-3, pendulous from the walls of the ovary. Carpels 

 coriaceous, indehiscent. Seeds albuminous. 



1. B. peltata, Pursh. ; leaves elliptic-oblong, peduncles pubescent. 

 //./. & 2\ Fl, Ind. i. 246. Hydropeltis purpurea, Richard ; DC. Prodr. 

 112 ; Griff. I tin. Notes, 160. 



BIIOTAN near Punaka, alt. 6000 ft., Griffith; KHASIA HILLS near Nonkreem, alt. 

 4500 ft., H.f. & T. DISTRIB. Eastern N. America; Eastern Australia. 



Leaves 2-4 in. Flowers ] in. diam. Sepals pubescent. Petals rose-red. 

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