116 vu. NYMPH2EACE2E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [NclumUum. 



appendage. Ovaries many, 1-celled, sunk in the flat top of an obconic 

 fleshy torus, attachment lateral ; style very short, exserted, stigma terminal, 

 dilated ; ovules 1-2, pendulous. Carpels ovoid, loose in the cavities of the 

 enlarged spongy torus; pericarp bony, smooth. Seed filling the carpel, 

 testa spongy, albumen ; cotyledons fleshy, thick, enclosing the large 

 folded plumule. DISTRIB. Species 2, one Asiatic and Australian ; the 

 other W. Indian. 



1. N. speciosum, W!JIL ; Wi<fhf <{- Arn. Prodr. i. 16 ; Roxl. Fl . Iwl. 

 647; Wight III. i. t. 9 ; //. f. & T. Fl. I ml. 247. N. asiaticum, Rich, in 

 Ann. Mas. xvii. 249, t. 9. Nelumbo Indica, 7V>\ K,> :,//. iv. 453. Cyamus 

 Nelumbo, Smith Exot. B<>t. i. r>i), t. 31, 32. C. mysticus,' Salt*'*. Ann. Bot. ii. 

 75. Nymphaea Nelumbo, Linn. 



Throughout India, extending as far to the N.W. as KASHMIR. DISTKIB. Persia, 

 Malay Islands, China, Japan, Tmpiral Australia. 



Peduncles and petioles 3-6 ft. high, full of spiral vessels, smooth or j^ijj^nifill scat- 

 ftf] ^pl jJflK r Leaves 2-3 ft. diain.. membranous, glancou-, nipped. /To or 4-TTrYn'. 

 ' 



iam.' white or rose. Petals elliptic, 001 ed Frudtntj turns L'-4 in. ditiiu. 



Ripe carpel* from the size of a pea to a small cherry. 



ORDER VIII. PAPAVERACEJE. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Annual or perennial herbs; juice usually milky or coloured, fcotui 

 radical <>r alternate, stipules 0. f lowers oiten I&rge, nodding in bud, rogular, 

 hermaphroditi' : ]>crianth and stamens very caducous. >S',/,,//,< i>. liyp<igynus, 

 concavi'. I'tlnls 4, L'-scriatc, lar-c, cniinpl.Ml. Wuinm* very many, fila- 

 ments slender ; anthers erect, slits lateral. (M//-// 1 -celled, or ^-4-cclled by 

 the produced placentas; style >ln>rt or ; stigmas radiating, connate and 

 opposite the placentas, or IVee and alternating with them ; ovule.-, many- 

 seriate, parietal, anatmpMiis. ('<////.< dehiscing by porea oi- valve-. 

 many, small, albumen oily and tle>hy ; embryo minute, i-lobed or iMid. 

 DISTIUB. About 17 genera and (',:> >pocies, chiefly natives of the X. Temp. 

 Zone. 



The European genera Glauchnn and Rccmeria, both natives "of Afghanistan, have 

 not been found in the British possessions. 



* Capsule usually short, opening by short valves or pores. 



Btigmaa 4 or more, radiating on a sessile disk ....... 1. PAPAVKR. 



^ti^-nias -\ I',, radiating from the to]> <>f a depressed style . . . l.*.\ 

 fcjtigmas 4-6, decurreut on the top of the style ...... '2. 



** Capsule short or long, dehiscing throughout its length. 



Ovary 1-celled ; stigma sessile, 4-6 -lobed ........ 3. CATHCARTIA. 



Ovary 1-celled ; style erect, stigma 2-4-lobed ....... 4. STYLOI-HORUM. 



. 1. PAP A VSR, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, juice milky. Leaves lobed or cut. Flowers on 

 long peduncles. Ovary 1-celled ; stigma discoid or pyramidal with radiating 

 lobes opposite the placentas which project into the cell. ("V/y^///r short, 

 opening by small valves under the lobes of the persistent stigma. /Seeds 

 small, pitted. DISTKIB. Species about 12, temp. Europe and Asia, with an 

 Australian and a S. African representative. 



