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(3) N. pvemma. (4it.) 
Ident. Ait. Hort. Kew. III, 293.—Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind, 
I. p. 244.—Dee. prod. I. p. 116. 
Engrav. Bot. Mag. t. 1525. 
Sprec..Cuar. Rhizome woolly with white hairs: leaves oblong- 
orbiculate, quite entire: lobes acute, diverging: sepals linear-ob- 
long: petals somewhat longer: stamens in 3-4 rows: filaments 
broadly dilated: rays of the stigma short, obtuse, paar shell- 
shaped: flowers white, not fragrant. 
Assam. Khasia hills. Flowering in August. 
GENUS II. EURYALE. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Euryale, one of the Gorgons, alluding to the 
thorny and formidable appearance of the plant. 
Gen. Cuan. Leaves peltate: sepals 4, inserted in the torus; 
petals numerous, in sevéral rows: carpels 16-20: fruit appearing 
half inferior, from the sepals and petals adhering half-way up. 
; (1) E, rgrox. (Salisb. ) 
-Adent.. Dec. prod. I, p. 114.—Salisb. Ann. Bot. II. p. 73. 
Syn. Anneslea spinosa, Andr. Roxb. fl. Ind. IL. p. 573. 
Engrav. Bot. Rep. t. 618. 
Srzc. Cuan. Stemless, floating plant: leaves about a foot in 
diameter, from orbicular to oval, entire, dark-green above, with 
rusty-coloured veins, armed with few slender prickles above, spi- 
nous beneath : ‘petioles and calyx hispid with stiff prickles : carpel 
the size of a pea, inclosed within the torus: flowers bluish-purple, 
small. 
Chittagong, Lucknow. Flowering nearly all the year. 
GENUS IV. BRASENIA. 
: Polyandria Polygynia, Sez :, Syst: 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals 3: petals 3, sessile, linear, alternate with 
the -sepals : stamens “12-18: anthers ‘linear, laterally dehiscing : 
ovaries 6-18, cylindric, shortly narrowed at the apex, afterwards. 
somewhat dilated into stigmas which are villous within. 
(1) ‘B. rexrata. (Pursh.) 
Ident. Pursh. fl, Bor. Ann, II, p. 389.—Hook, & Thoms. Flor, 
Ind. I, p. 246, 
