Taxonomy Nymphaea capensis. 153 



N. caerulea, Gilg 1903. Not Savigny 1802. 

 N. calliantha var. tenuis, Conard 1903. 



Distribution and Types. Coll. H. Baum, No. 771, March 10, 1900, "an ruhi- 

 gen Stellen in der Kuito-Niederung zwischen Kutue und Sobi, 1200 m. u. M." in hbb. 

 Delessert, Berlin. Professor Gilg unites with this form Pogge's No. 560 from the 

 " Baschilangebiet " and Buchner's No. 88 from the " Malangebiet " ; I prefer to class 

 No. 88 with N. heudelotii, but I have no notes on Pogge's No. 560. Both are in hb. 

 Berlir 



Notes. This species is distinct enough, we believe, from the nearest relative, 

 N. caerulea. The color of the under side of the leaf, and the peculiar long narrow area 

 between the two primary veins nearest the sinus, are easily noted characteristics. It 

 should prove a valuable acquisition for the water-garden. 



Nymphaea capensis Thunberg. (Plate X; Fig. 60.) 



Leaves large, nearly orbicular, deeply sinuate; angles produced, acuminate ; green 

 on both sides. Flowers bright blue, large, open from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m. Buds 

 ovate. Sepals pure green, spotless. Petals 20 to 30, elliptic. Stamens about 150, 

 appendaged. 



Nymphaea capensis, Thunberg 1800, fid. original specimens, coll. Burmann, No. 491, from hb. Thunb. 



in hbb. Delessert, DeCandolle. Harvey 1838. Lehmann 1853 a. Caspary 1865, 1877. Con- 

 ard 1901 a. 

 N. caerulea, Andrews, tab. 197. Kerner 1795. Dryander 1801, fid. original specimens in hb. British 



Museum. Aiton 181 1. Spach 1846. Tricker 1897, and others. Not Savigny 1802. 

 Castalia scutifolia, Salisbury 18060 and b. 

 N. scutifolia, DeCandolle 1821 b, 1824, fid. original specimen from hb. Thunb. in hb. DeCandolle. 



Planchon 1850 c, 1853 b. Paxton 1853 c. 

 N. cyanea Hort. fid. Paxton, 1. c. 

 N. Berneriana, Planchon 1852 b; 1853 a, b; fid. original specimens, coll. Bernier, No. 158, 1835, 



" Nord de Madagascar," in hbb. Delessert, Paris. 

 N. Emirnensis, Planchon 1852 b; 1853 a, b; fid. original specimens coll. Bojer, " in ubisque paludosis 



in provinc. Emirna, insula Madagascar," in hbb. Paris, DeCandolle. 

 N. Leiboldiana, Lehmann 1853 a, as to the African plant, fid. specimens from hb. Lehmann in hbb. 



Kew, Berlin. 

 N. Petersiana, Klotsch 1862, fid. original specimen, coll. Peters, Feb. 8, 1848, Mozambique, in hb. 



Berlin. 

 N. stellata var. macrantha, Gilg MS., fid. specimens coll. F. Wilms, Flora Africae Australis, No. 10, 



Dec, 1883, Distr. Middelberg, Transvaal, in hb. Berlin, and No. 13, July, 1884, Distr. Lyden- 



burg, " zwischen Spitzkop und dem Komatiflusse," in hbb. Kew, British Museum, Berlin. 



Not. N. stellata, Willdenow 1797. 

 N. stellata of Cape collectors and (in part) of many botanists. Not Willdenow 1797. 



Description. Flower 15 to 20 cm. across, opening on 4 successive days from 

 7 a. m. to 4 p. m. (5 days, 7 a. m. to 1 p. m. ; 5 a. m. to 3 p. m. Caspary 1877), sweet 

 scented. Bud narrowly ovate, pure green. Peduncle terete, 60 cm. long, rising 22 cm. 

 above water; green; 0.8 to 1.3 cm. in diameter, main air canals 6, surrounded by 12 

 smaller ones, and these by 24 very small ones. Receptacle yellowish. Sepals 4, nar- 

 rowly wedge-ovate, breadth : length = 1 : 2.4 to 4.3, tapering above to a rounded apex, 

 opening to about 30 above horizontal ; thick and fleshy in texture ; outer surface deep 



