NYMPH.EACE^E. 101 



Plate 42, 43. 

 NYMPHJEA, Tourn. 



Petala et stamina indefinita, ovario (mediante toro) pluri- 

 seriatim inserta, exteriora sepalis 4 liberis axrailonga et con- 

 formia. Stigmata linearia, circa glandulam in centro globo- 

 sam radiata. Semina indefinita arillo inclusa. — Flores sse- 

 pius suaveolentes, nunquam fiavi. 



Nvmph.ea, Tourn. Linn. (excl. spec.) Neck. Elem. 1828. Smith, 

 Prodr. Fl. Grtec. 1. p. 361. Schkuhr, Handb. 1. 142. (excl. spec.) 

 DC. Syst. 2. p. 49. Endl. Gen. 5020. 



Leuconymphjf.a, Boerh. Hort. Lugd. p. 364. 



Castalia, Salisb. in Kon. & Sims, Ann. Bot. 2. p. 71. 



Water-Lily. Lotus (Egyptian). 



Calyx of 4 oblong sepals, green outside and colored 

 within, imbricated in asstivation, free, tardily deciduous. 

 Petals numerous, distinct, imbricated in several series in 

 aestivation, inserted by means of the thin adnate torus over 

 the whole exterior surface of the ovary, upon which their 

 persistent vestiges remain in fruit ; the exterior as large as 

 the sepals and similar in form ; the inner series passing by 

 gradual transition into stamens. Stamens indefinite, insert- 

 ed on the ovary above the petals : filaments petaloid, or the 

 innermost linear-filiform : anthers introrsely adnate, the 

 cells opening longitudinally. Compound ovary many- ( 12 - 

 24-) celled, crowned with as many linear stigmas radiating 

 around its broadly umbilicate summit, which bears a globu- 

 lar knob in the centre. Ovules very numerous, inserted 

 over the whole face of the dissepiments except at the inner 

 angle of the cells, anatropous, pendulous ; the raphe external 

 (the micropyle next the wall of the carpel) ? 



Fruit baccate, globular, covered with the scaly vestiges 

 of the sepals, pulpy or gelatinous internally, many-celled, 

 many-seeded. Seeds pendulous, each inclosed in a mem- 



