42 NYMPHJKACEJE. 



Nymphaeacese. 



Conspectus of the Formos:m Genera. 



(1) Sepals and petals 3 each, free. Carpels free. Ovules few. 



Seeds albuminous .................................. Brasenia 1 



Sepals and petals 4-5, petals and stamens indefinite. (2) 



(2) Carpels confluent with one another or with the disk into 



one ovary. Ovules many. Seeds albuminous .......... Euryale 2 



Carpels irregularly scattered, sunk in pits of the turbiuate 



disk. Ovules 1-2. Seeds exalbuminous .............. Nelumbo 3 



1. Rrasenia SCHREB. 



Brasenia purpurea CASP. "in Joum. Sc. Acad. Lisb. TV. p. 312" ; 

 HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa, p. 25. 



HydropeJtis purpurea RICHARD ; DO. Pro:!. I. p. 112. 



Brasenia peltate PURSH. ; HOOK. f. et THOMS. in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Iiid. 

 I. p. 113 ; FRANCH. et SAV. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 25. 



HAB. Girau : Kentozan. 



DISTRIB. Commonly found in Japm, distributed in eastern North 

 America and eastern Australia. Not yet known from China. 



OBSERV. Flowers solitary, sessile, pedunculate ; leaves peltate, elliptical, 

 10 cm. long, 0.5 cm. brovl. 



2. Etifi/ftle SALISB. 



Euryale ferox SALISB. ; KONIG. et Sms. Ann. Bot. II. p. 74 ; DC. 

 Prodr. I. p. 114 ; Bot. Mag. t, 1447 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 33 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 17 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. 

 p. 19. 



HAB. in swamps in the vicinity of Taihoku. 



DHTRIB. Northern India and Japan. 



