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NYMPHACEiE. 



Sepals and petals 3 each. Carpels 6 or more, free, on a small torus. Ovules 

 few. Flowers small. — 2. Brasenia. 



Sepals 4 to 6. Petals and stamens numerous, the outer ones free, the inner 

 more and more adnate to the torus. Carpels immersed in the torus in a ring 

 round a central conical projection. — 3. Nymphaea. 



Sepals 4 or 5. Petals and stamens numerous, hypogynous. Carpels half 

 immersed without order in the flat top of the torus, no albumen. — 1. 

 Nelumbo. 



1. NELUMBO, Adans. 

 (NELUMBIUM, Juss.). 



1. N. nucifera Gaertn. {Nelumbiwn specioaum. Willd.). — G. P. Hill, 

 1911/1912. 



Recorded. Swamps in Arnhem's Land, F. v. Mueller ; Lower Condamine 

 Eiver, Coxon. Pink Water-Lily. Sacred Lotus. 



2. BRASENIA, Schbbb. 



1. B. peltata, Pursh. — ^North Austraha, R. Brown. Water Shield. 



3. NYMPH^A, TouBN. 1700. 



(CASTALIA, Salisb. 1805). 



1. N. stellata, Willd. {N. gigantea, Hook).— To^p Spring, G. F. ffill (No. 

 548), 31/8/1911. Frequently cultivated. 



Lakes and marshes throughout tropical Austraha, R. Brown ; F. v. Mueller. 



ANONACEAE^. 



Petals spreading. — 1. Uvaria. 



Petals concave, not spreading, valvate. — 2. Popowia. 



1. UVARIA, Linn. 



1. U. membranacea, Benth. — Scrub at Cape York, M'GiUivray. 

 U. Holtzei, F. v. M., recorded in National Herbarium Census from North 

 Austraha. 



2. POPOWIA, Endl. 



1. P. austrcdis, Benth. — Barrow Bay, Port Essington, Armstrong. 

 Polyalihia HoUzeana, F. v. M. ; Saccopetalum Brahei, F. v. M., recorded 

 in National Herbarium Census from North Austraha. 



MYRISTICEffi, 



1. MYRISTICA, Linn. 1742. 



{Comacum, Adans., 1763; Horsfieldia, Willd., 1805; Knema, Lour., 

 1790 ; Pyrrhosa, Endl, 1839 ; Sebophora, Neck., 1790 ; Virola, Avbl., 1775). 



1. M. insipida, R. Br. — ^Near Darwin, Gilruth and Spencer, July -August, 

 1911. 



Recorded. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Brunswick 

 Bay, A. Cunningham ; Melville Island, Eraser ; Port Essington, Armstrong. 



Queensland Nutmeg. Wood of a pinkish grey, easily worked. 



