N \ M I'll EACJ I 103 



Plate 44. 

 NUPIIAR, Smith. 



Petala 10-20, glandulaeformia, cum staminibus appresso- 



iinbricata, toro hypogyno sen perigyno inserta, sepalis 5-0 



liberis et stigmate peltato radiatim 12 — 20-striato breviora. 



Semina indefinita, exarillata. — Flores lutei. 



Ndphar, Smith, Prodr. Fl. Grec. 1. p. 361. DC. Syst. 2. p. 59. Deless. 

 [< .' t. (i. Endl. Gen. 5021. Trecul, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3. eer. 

 2. p. 286. t. 10-13. 



Nuirii.v ■>■ Sp., Tourn. Linn. Gajrtn. Schkubr, I c. 



Nymph ea, Boerh. 1. c. p. 363. Salisb. in Kon. & Sims, Ann. Bot. 2. p. 71. 



N i mpbosahthi :-, Rich. Anal. 1'r. p. 68 & Ann. Mue. IT. p. 230. t. '.). 



Yellow Pond-Lily. Spatterdock. 



Calyx of 5 or 6 roundish and concave coriaceous sepals, 

 imbricated in aestivation, green at the base, yellow above 

 and inside, five, persistent. Petals 10 to 20, small, usually 

 thick and glandular or stamen-like, imbricated, inserted into 

 a thickened (hypogynous or barely perigynous) torus or disk 

 at the base of the ovary. Stamens indefinite, short, insert- 

 ed on the torus within the petals in many series, closely im- 

 bricated and appressed to the pistil, at length elastically re- 

 curved, persistent: filaments very short, stout, continued 

 into a similar linear glandular-truncate connective: anther 

 adnate to its inner face (introrse); the linear cells parallel, 

 contiguous, opening longitudinally. Ovary columnar, na- 

 ked, many-striatc, 10 - 25-celled, crowned with a circular and 

 convex 10-25-crenulate and 10-25-rayed peltate sessile 

 stigma, umbilicate in the centre. Ovules as in Nymphaea, 

 but rather fewer. 



Fruit baccate with a firm rind, naked, ovoid or oblong, 

 terminated by the concave-truncate persistent radiated stig- 

 ma, pulpy inside, many-celled,*many-seeded ; the pulpy en- 

 docarps capable of being detached entire from the firmer axis 



