Euryale. | NYMPH AACE. 213 
33. Nymphea Linn. 
Large aquatic herbs with creeping rootstock. Flowers large 
expanded, floating on long radical scapes. Sepals 4, adnate to 
the base of the disk. Petals many-seriate, inner successively 
transformed into stamens, all adnate to disk. Stamens n numerous ; 
filaments petaloid; anthers small linear ; dehiscence introrse. 
Carpels many, 1-seriate, sunk in the fleshy disk and forming with 
it a many-celled ovary crowned by the connate radiating furrowed 
stigmas; ovules numerous, anatropous. Fruit a spongy berry, 
ripening under water. Seeds very small, enclosed in a fleshy 
saccate arillus 
Leayes sharply sinuately toothed ; sepals apes anthers without appen- 
dages; stigmatic rays with clubbed appendages 
Blowers: white: ies <dcv. > cacsedconde -mobewalet-<c4gikeed> «de> SOI ENe ob RO Lotus. 
FOWOrs. FOBG OF: TO « «io ecc acidic vcsceuce bo oauonua chy ces oo0.c4 gees tear PSens a. 
Leaves entire or phew sinuate; sepals many-ve eined but not kel: 
anthers with long appendages ; stigmatic rays ending in short horns 
without appendages :— 
Flowers pale blue, 1-2 im. across ......cseererseereers tener nent stellata. 
Flowers darker blue, 4-5 in. acrOSs .....++e+eeesreeseett stellata var. major. 
54. Nympnza Lotus Mrw B,) Biidvcke 14g, Bee Dict O00, 
N. esculenta F. I. 578. 
Everywhere in ate and ditches. Beng. Kambal. Two 
forms; one with glabrous, one with pubescent leaves. 
55. Nympuama rusra Roxb.; F, I. ii. 576. 
Less common than the nar tot ace plant though 
equally widespread. Beng. Rakto-ka mbal. 
56. Nympuma srettata Willd.; F. I. ii. 579; F. B. I. i. 114; 
E. a N. 209. 
verywhere in ponds. Beng. Nil- —_ 
56/2. Ven Masor Voigt. N. cyanea F, I. ii. 
Less common than the wins 9288 ——s Beng. 
Bara nil-padma. 
34, Euryale Salisb. 
Densely prickly aquatic herbs, with thick rootstock; leaves 
orbicular, corrugate. Flowers partially submerged. Sepa als 4, 
erect, inserted on the edge of the thalamus above the carpels. 
Petals numerous, 8-5-seriate, shorter than the sepals. 
