Taxonomy Nymphaea blanda. 207 



Description. Flower 81 to 95 mm. across. Sepals 35 to 44 mm. long by 13 to 

 20.5 mm. wide, widest below the middle. Petals 16; outer ones 38 mm. long by 15 

 mm. wide, oblong, ovate; outside sepaloid along the middle, margins and inside 

 yellowish. Inner petals gradually smaller; innermost oblong-lanceolate, acute. 

 Stamens about 65, outer 4 largest, 25 mm. long, with filaments petaloid, longer than 

 and twice as wide as anthers; inner stamens gradually smaller, the filament becoming 

 short, and narrower than the anther, innermost 14 mm. long; all the stamens are 

 yellowish. Carpels 26 ; styles 9 to 1 1 mm. long, incurved and purplish-brown at apex. 

 Peduncle clothed with septate hairs. 



Leaf small, entire, membranaceous, elliptic-orbicular, narrowly peltate, green 

 above and below ; lobes distant, sub-hastate, sub-acute ; margins of sinus gently curved ; 

 primary veins 6 on each side. Petiole clothed with long septate hairs in the upper 

 part or throughout. 



Tuber oblong or ovate, small, covered with brownish hairs. 



Geographic Distribution. Mouth of Essequibo River, Guiana, in ponds and 

 streams, collected by Rodschied about 1814. Swamps near city of Panama, coll. See- 

 man. Guatemala; Jamaica (Hemsley, 1. c). 



Notes. The description above is taken from Caspary (la), who studied Meyer's 

 type collected by Rodschied in hb. Grisebach, and Parker's collection in hb. Hooker & 

 Lindley. 



Var. fenzliana (Lehmann) Caspary. (Plate XXI.) 



Peduncles and petioles glabrous. 



N. Fenzliana Lehmann, 1. c. 



N. blanda var. Fenzliana Caspary, 1. c, lid. types in hbb. Kew, Berlin. 



Description. Flower 96 mm. across. Sepals 40 to 42 mm. long by 12 to 16 

 mm. wide, oblong, ovate, sub-acuminate, pale green outside, very densely marked with 

 slender red-brown lines 3 to 4 mm. long; inside yellowish. Petals 16, pale yellowish; 

 outermost 4 petals 38 to 40 mm. long by 13 to 15 mm. wide, acute; innermost shorter 

 and narrower, sub-lanceolate. Outer stamens lanceolate, with anthers 8 mm. long, 

 scarcely appendiculate. Carpels 23; styles about 8 mm. long, 1 mm. wide at clavate 

 apex. 



Leaf floating, coriaceo-membranaceous, entire, sub-orbicular, fissi-cordate, green 

 on both sides ; margins of sinus curved ; lobes slightly produced, sub-acuminate ; pri- 

 mary veins 5 to 6 on each side, not prominent. 



Rhizome small, ovate-globose, 20 mm. long. 



Geographic Distribution. Collected in Guatemala near San Juan de Nicaragua 

 in 1841. 



Notes. Known only from the types in hb. Vienna and hb. Bentham (now Kew), 

 from which Caspary's description was drawn. 



Nymphaea lasiophylla Martius & Zuccarini. (Plate XXII.) 



Sepals with a few large black spots, ovate-oblong, sub-acute, sub-acuminate. Styles 

 6 to 7 mm. long. Leaves large, entire, cordate to orbicular, cleft at base, broadly pel- 

 tate (i. e., 8 to 16 mm.) ; lobes rather obtuse. Flowers 9.3 to 11.8 cm. in diameter. 

 Petals 16. Stamens above 42. Carpels 15 to 20. 



