208 The Wateruues. 



Nymphaea lasiophylla, Martius & Zuccarini 1832. Planchon 1852 b (name only) ; 1853 b (name and 

 locality only). Caspary 1878. 



Description. Sepals 48 to 50 mm. long by 18 mm. wide. Petals white, oblong, 

 sub-elliptic ; outermost 20 mm. wide by 50 mm. long ; innermost 4 lanceolate, 8 mm. 

 wide by 42 mm. long; all acute. Stamens unequal; outermost petaloid, lanceolate; 

 middle and inner ones linear, with anthers wider than the filaments ; outermost slightly 

 appendiculate. Styles 6 to 7 mm. long, 1 mm. wide at apex ; stigma yellowish ; axile 

 process minute. Leaf coriaceous, sub-orbicular, entire; under side reddish, with 

 brown-purple lines; lobes distant or touching, more or less produced, obtuse; sinus 

 margins curved or nearly straight; primary veins 7 to 11. Petioles terete, smooth, 

 reddish. (Pubescence of under side of leaf mentioned by Martius & Zuccarini is a 

 layer of algae. Caspary, 1. c.) 



Geographic Distribution. Collected by Martius, No. 2377, near Joazeiro in 

 Lagodisso, province of Bahia, Brazil (9 40' S., 42 10' W.) in March and April. Other- 

 wise unknown. Type seen in lib. Munich. 



Nymphaea gardneriana Planchon. (Plate XXIV.) 



Sepals densely marked with long slender fuscous lines, oblong-ovate, distinctly 

 acute, acuminate. Petals 16 to 20, outermost oblong-ovate, innermost oblong-lanceo- 

 late. Stamens 46 to 62, outer filaments petaloid, inner filiform and short. Carpels 15 

 to 18; rays of stigma rounded at apex; styles linear-clavate, very long (12 to 16 mm.), 

 apex 1 to 1.25 mm. in diameter, dark purple; axile process minute. Leaf floating, 

 6.5 cm. long, slightly coriaceous or sub-mem branaceous, peltate (pelta 5 to 8 mm. wide), 

 ovate or orbicular-hastate, rarely orbicular, apex rounded or sub-retuse; sinus open, 

 broadly triangular ; lobes acute or obtuse ; margin entire, often crisped ; primary nerves 

 5 on each side (rarely 4) ; glabrous, irregularly marked above and beneath with dark 

 violet spots. 



Nymphaea Gardneriana, Planchon 1852 b; 1853 a and b; fid. specimens coll. Gardner, No. 2476, about 



1840, Paranagua, Brazil. Caspary 1878. 

 JV*. fragrans, Gardner MS. in hb. Bentham, now Kew. 

 N. Passiflora, Lehmann 18530 and b; 1854; fid. specimen marked in Lehmann's handwriting in hb. 



Kew. 



Description. Flower 92 to 115 mm. across. Sepals 11 to 19 mm. wide by 40 

 to 55 mm. long ; outside nerveless, greenish, with long slender fuscous lines. Petals 

 acute, usually sub-acuminate; innermost oblong-lanceolate; outermost reddish-yellow, 

 innermost reddish-brown (in dried specimens). Stamens reddish-brown; outermost 

 petaloid, innermost slender. 



Leaf small; veins slightly immersed beneath. 



Rhizome small, 16 mm. in diameter, sub-globose, covered with long gray-brown 

 hairs. 



Geographic Distribution. Paranagua, Province Piauhy, Brazil (io 45' S., 

 484o'W.) ; Plain of Mbatolio, Paraguay, coll. Balansa, No. 521. 



