308: 
at the top, containing several nuts: flowers white, or rose-coloured, 
very large. 
Common everywhere in tanks. Flowering nearly all the year. 
GENUS Il. ‘NYMPHAA. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the Greek term for a water-nymph, in allusion to- 
the habitat of the plants. 
Gen. Cuar. Floating plants with cordate or peltate leaves: 
sepals usually 4: petals numerous: stamens numerous, inserted 
with the petals on the torus, but above them: torus bottle-shaged,. 
surrounding the ovaries: carpels 16-20, many-seeded. 
(1) N. stezzata. ( Willd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 17.—Dee. prod. I. p. 115.—Roxb. 
fl. Ind. TI. p. 579.—Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 243. 
Syn. N. cyanea, Road. ft. Ind. IL. p. 577.—N. versicolor, Roxb, 
1.-¢.—N. punctata, Edgew. in’ Linn. Trans.—N. Hookeriana, Leh-. 
mann. i: 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. XI. t. 27.—Wight’s Icon. t. 178.—Bot. 
Mag. t. 2058.—Sim’s Bot. Mag. t. 1189. 
Spec. Cuar. Perennial: leaves quite entire, margins waved = 
lobes diverging at the base:. petiole attached within the margin = 
stigma 8-12-rayed: flowers blue. ; 
Throughout India, flowering all ‘the year. 
(2) N. ruBra. ( Roxb.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 17.—Dee. prod. I. p. 115.—Roxb. 
fi, Ind. TT. p. 576. 
Syn. N. Lotus, Linn. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. 1. p. 241.— 
N. Devoniensis, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4665.—N. edulis, Roxb. 1. c. p.. 
578.—N. pubescens, Willd. Dec. l. c.—W. § A. prod. l. c.—N. 
sagittata, Edgew. in Linn. Trans. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. I. t. 10.—Bot. Mag. t: 1189, 1280 and. 
1364.—Rheede Mal. XJ. t. 26. oo r : 
Srec. Cuar. Perennial: leaves sharply toothed, downy be- 
neath: lobes diverging: petiole within the margin: connectivum 
not prolonged into an appendage: stigma 10-20-rayed : flowers. 
large, intensely red‘or rose-coloured. = a ; 
“Throughout India, flowering all the year. 
