Description of Plates. 



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Plate 21. Nymphaea blanda, N. blanda fenzliana. N. tenerinervia, N. stenaspidota. From Caspary, 

 1878, pi. 36. 1-7, N. tenerinervia, from a specimen coll. Martius at Joazeiro, Province 

 of Bahia, Brazil. 1, flower; 2, lower surface of leaf; 3, apex of outer stamen; 4, of 

 innermost stamen ; 5, carpellary style ; 6, upper surface of leaf, near the point of inser- 

 tion of the petiole, showing series of raised dot 1 ; and short raised lines; the arrow 

 points to the insertion of the petiole ; 7, outer surface of sepal showing short crowded 

 raised lines ; 8, outer surface of sepal of N. stenaspidota with raised dots between the 

 rather long raised lines; 9-12, N. blanda fenzliana, specimen from San Juan tie Nica- 

 ragua, in hb. Vienna. 9, young fruit; 10, 11, outer and median stamens, from hb. Ben- 

 tham; 12, leaf; 13-16, N. blanda. 13, flower viewed from side, coll. Parker in British 

 Guiana; 14, leaf of the same; 15, part of upper surface of same leaf, showing raphid-like 

 lines and raised dots; 16, leaf of Meyer's type, coll. Dr. Rodscheid in the Essequibo 

 River (from hb. Grisebach). 



Plate 22. Nymphaea lasiophylla and N. rudgeana, from Caspary, 1878, pi. 34. 1-7, N. lasiophylla. 



I, 2, flower from face and back; 3, leaf, showing lower side, with distant lobes; 4, part 

 of a larger leaf seen from above, lobes touching ; 5, 6, outermost and innermost sta- 

 mens; 7, part of lower surface of leaf marked with raised dots and branching lines; 8-19, 

 N. rudgeana. 8, leaf of a plant from Jamaica, cult, in Berlin Botanical Garden; 9, 10, 



II, stipules of three leaves of a Jamaica plant, cult, in Konigsberg Botanical Garden; 

 12, fruit, raised at Konigsberg ; 13, another fruit, raised at Konigsberg, with persistent 

 sepals and petals; 14, Konigsberg fruit in median section; 15, small flower, coll. Poep- 

 pig, No. 3033, 1832, in the Island of Colares of the Amazon, in hb. Berlin; 16, sepal of 

 a flower, coll. Sello at Victoria, Brazil; 17, 18, stamens of this flower; 19, apices of 

 median and innermost stamens showing a narrow rim of the connective, but no append- 

 age. 



Plate 23. Nymphaea jamesoniana, from Caspary, 1878, pi. 32. 1, 2, flower from front and back, in 

 hb. Boissier; s, sepal; 3, 4, 5, innermost, outer and outermost stamens; 6, 7, leaves, 

 from hb. St. Petersburg and hb. Lehm; 8, part of leaf from beneath, showing forked 

 branching lines and raphid-like idioblasts. 



Plate 24. Nymphaea stenaspidota and N. gardncriana, from Caspary, 1878, pi. 33. 1-3, AT stenaspi- 

 dota. 1, whole plant from type of hb. Lehm ; s, sepal ; 2, flower ; 3, part of leaf, upper 

 surface, showing raised dots, the arrow points toward point of insertion of petiole; 

 4-n, N. gardneriana. 4, flower, from hb. Vienna; s, sepal; 5, 6, 7, upper part of 

 outermost, median and innermost stamens; 8, 9, 10, leaves; 11, upper surface of leaf 

 showing series of raised dots, with raphid-like lines interspersed, the arrow as in Fig. 3. 



Plate 25. Nymphaea oxypetala, from Caspary, 1878, pi. 31. I, 2, flower, from hb. Boissier, from 

 face and back ; 3, 4, outermost and innermost stamens ; 5, three carpellary styles, with 

 surface of stigma and axile process; 6, 7, leaves from hb. Lehm. and St. Petersburg; 

 8, globose idioblasts of inner face of anther at the point of Fig. 3. 



Plate 26. Nymphaea Pennsylvania = N. caerulea X zanzibariensis. From the original plant grown 

 at University of Pennsylvania. A. Koronski del. 



Plate 27. Nymphaea capensis X zanzibariensis. Flower and under side of leaf. From plants raised 

 at University of Pennsylvania. 



Plate 28. Nymphaea elegans X zanzibariensis. Flower and under side of leaf. From plants raised 

 at University of Pennsylvania. 



Plate 29. Nymphaea Havo-vircns X zanzibariensis. Flower and under side of leaf. From plants 

 raised and bred at University of Pennsylvania. 



Plate 30. Nymphaea omarana, hybrid. Stock from Dreer Co. A. Koronski del. 



