114 vn. NYMPHJEACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.)' 



2. NY1KFHJEA, L. 



Large herbs ; rootstock creeping. Flowers expanded, large, floating on 

 long radical scapes. X<-p1* 4, adnate to the base of the disk. Petals in 

 many series, inner successively transformed into stamens, all adnate to the 

 disk. Filaments petaloid ; anthers small, linear, slits introrse. Ofiri'S 

 many, in 1 series, sunk in the fleshy disk and with it forming a many- 

 celled ovary crowned by the connate radiating furrowed stigmas ; ovules 

 many, auatropoiis. Fruit a spongy berry ripening under water, 

 minute, buried in pulp, enclosed in a sac-like fleshy aril. DISTIUB. Species 

 20 ; most temperate and tropical regions. 



1. N. alba, Linn. ; leaves cordate quite entire, flowers white, anthers 

 without appendages, stigmatic rays about 16 with cylindric appen 

 //./ <(-7'. /'/. ///</. 211. 



KASHMIR I.AKF, alt. 5."><iO ft. PISTRIR. Europe, Siberia. 



Leaves 5-10 in. diam., snborbirulate, lubes contiguous, typal* linear or ovate- 

 nerves reticulate. /' hii* about 10, cuter linear-oblong, equalling the sepals. Pollen 

 echinulate. .Srr/x minute .-tri.ite and punc' 



VAK. KaslnniriniHi, 11. f. (' T. /.<. ; ..varies pubescent or vi'Ious. X. Cachei:, 

 Comix-**, in Ja<;j. Vnif. Jlnt. ii. t. lo : N. alba, var. Kostulutzkyi, Planch. 

 Nat. tier, u, xix. 3d. Kashmir, J(n-<^'< m<>ni. 



2. N. Lotus, Linn. ; leaves sharply sinuate-toothed, flowers white rose 

 or red, sepals obtuse- ribbed, anthers without appendages, stigmatic rays with 

 clubbed appendages. //. / <( T. /'/. J ' n<l. 241. i\. nibra, Ji'n.r/,. /'/. '///'/. ii. 



; IT. <c A. Prodr. 17 ; II '<//// ///. i.t. 10; \\'<tll. Cat. 7255. N. Dev.niensis, 

 k. Jlnt. May. t/4665. JS 1 . edulis, UC. ; AW,. /'/. Ind. ii. f>7s ; \\\dl. ( ;a. 

 7254, 



Common throxighout the warmer parts of India. DISTRIB. Africa, Hungary, Java, 

 Philippine Islands. 



Luiin.s 0-12 in. broa ! /-.? 2-10 in. broad, very variable- in 



colour. &0oZft oblong, 5 lo: ' i. Petob linear or ov&te-obloug. filaments broadly 

 dilated at tli ten Miionlh. >SV< r/.s limadly ellipsnid, nui^b. 



VAK. 1 1 . I. vV 1 . ! 1 hid. iM 1 ; leaves puberulous or pubescent b< 



tlc\vei-s smaller. N. jmb. sc.-ns, II ////. ; II'. <( J . Viudr. 17 and 447 ; ll'ult. Cut . 

 N. sa^ittata, folijn-. in 'J'ni \. 29. 



3. N. stellata, WiUd. ; leaves quite entire or obtusely sinuate-toothed, 

 flowers variously coloured, petals acute or taper-pointed, anthers with long 

 appendages, stigmatic rays terminating in short horns without appendages. 

 U.f.&T.FI.iwl. i. 



Common throughout the warmer parts of India. DISTRIB. Africa. 



Leaves orbicular or elliptic,' often blotched with purple beneath, lobes acute or obtuse. 

 Flowers 1-10 in. diam., blue, white, rose, or purple, slightly odorous, tiyxtl* many- 

 veioed, not ribbed, often streaked with tine short purple lines. Petal* 1 (-,')(), linear- 

 oblong or lanceolate. Stamens 10-50; pollen smooth. Stigmatic rays 10-30. 

 eubstriate. 



VAI:. 1. ci/anea, H.f. & T. I.e.; flowers medium-sized blue scarcely odoroue. N. 

 cyanea, Roxb.FL 2nd iii. 577; W. & A. Prodr. i. 17 ; Wall. Cat. 7253, J, J>. N. 

 stellata j8, Hot. Mag. t. 



A' A u. 2. parvftora, II. f. & T. I.e.; flowers usually smaller blue. N. stellata, Willd; 

 W. & A. Prodr. i. 17 ; Wall. Cat. 7253, C <( /:. 



VAR. 3. versicolor, H.f. & T. I.e. ; flowers larger white blue purple or flesh-coloured, 

 stamens very many. N. Versicolor, lioxl. Hort. Beng. 41 ; Fl. Ind. ii.577 ; JJot. M>'<j. 

 t, 1189; Wall. Cat. 7257. N. punctata, Edyx: in Ti . Sue. xx. 29. N. 



Edgeworthii and N. Hookeriana, Lthm. der (Jatt. Nytupk. 1 and 21. 



