﻿II 
  

  

  NYMPHyEA 
  

  

  (sub-gen. 
  BRACHYCERAS 
  Casp.) 
  

  

  IN 
  

  

  BY 
  

   Honry 
  S. 
  COMARD 
  

  

  Paru 
  le 
  15 
  mai 
  1903. 
  

  

  For 
  many 
  years 
  it 
  bas 
  been 
  customary 
  to 
  include 
  ail 
  of 
  the 
  

   blue 
  water-lilies 
  of 
  Asia 
  and 
  Africa 
  under 
  tbe 
  name 
  Nymphœa 
  

   stellata 
  Willd. 
  This 
  view 
  was 
  advocated 
  by 
  Hooker 
  and 
  Tbomson 
  

   {Flora 
  indica, 
  1855) 
  and 
  followed 
  by 
  Caspary 
  in 
  1865 
  {Ann. 
  Mus. 
  

   Liigd. 
  Batav., 
  vol. 
  2). 
  But 
  after 
  cultivating 
  varions 
  types, 
  and 
  

   Crossing 
  tbem, 
  Caspary 
  came 
  to 
  recognize 
  four 
  distinct 
  species 
  

   {Bot. 
  Zeit., 
  1877), 
  N. 
  stellata 
  Willd. 
  inhabiting 
  India 
  and 
  sur- 
  

   rounding 
  parts 
  of 
  Soutbern 
  Asia, 
  N. 
  cœridea 
  Sav. 
  of 
  Egypt, 
  

   N. 
  capensis 
  Thunb. 
  (= 
  N. 
  sciitifolia 
  DC.) 
  of 
  the 
  Cape 
  of 
  Good 
  

   Hope, 
  and 
  bis 
  iV. 
  Zanzibar 
  iensis 
  from 
  the 
  Island 
  of 
  Zanzibar. 
  

   The 
  writer 
  also, 
  after 
  similar, 
  tbough 
  shorter^ 
  expérience, 
  is 
  satis 
  

   fied 
  that 
  the 
  African 
  and 
  Asiatic 
  species 
  are 
  quite 
  distinct. 
  The 
  

   A^. 
  cœrulea-tjpe 
  is 
  especially 
  well 
  marked, 
  and 
  is 
  easily 
  recognized 
  

   by 
  its 
  almost 
  entire 
  leaves, 
  the 
  black 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  of 
  

   the 
  leaf 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  sepals, 
  the 
  small 
  number 
  of 
  petals 
  (14-20) 
  and 
  

  

  