TodophylUm.] vi. berberide^, (Hobk. f. & Thoms;) 113 



middle or base;_ lobes ouneate, acutely aerrate. Peckmch terminal in bud, then appa- 

 fently supva-axiUary or inserted oa the petiole of the upper leaf. Flowers 1-1 4 m. 

 diam. Sepals very deciduous. Petah 6, sometimes 4 (5oJffe), obovate-oblong. Bttry 

 1-2 in., ellipsoid, red, edible. 



ORDER VII. NVMPHAACE.a:. (By Hooker f. & Thothaon.) 



Aquatic perennial herbs. Leaves usually floating, often peltate, margins 

 involute in vernation. Scapes 1-flowered, naked. Florahwhorh all free, 

 hypogynous or adnate to a fleshy disk that surrounds or envelops the car- 

 pels. Sepals 3-5. Petals 3-^5, or many. Stamens many. Carpels 3 or more 

 in one whorl, free or connate or irregularly sunk in pits of the disk ; stigmas 

 as many as carpels, peltate or decurrent ; ovules few, or many and scattered 

 over the walls of the cells, anatropous or orthotropous. Fruit formed of the 

 connate carpels, or of separate and indehiscent carpels, or of the enlarged 

 turbinate flat-topped disk with the nut-like carpels sunk in its crown. 

 Seeds naked or arilled ; albumen floury or ; embryo enclosed in the en- 

 larged amniotic sac. — Disteib. Temperate and tropical ; genera 8, species 

 30-40. 



SiTBOEDEE I. Cabombeae. Sepals a,ni petah 3 each, bee. Carpels iiee. 

 Ovules few. Seeds albuminous. 



1. Bbasenia. 



SUBOEDER II. ZTympliaeee. Sepals 4-6. Petals and stamens indefinite. 

 Carpels confluent with one another or with the difik into one ovary. Chides 

 many. Seeds albuminous. 



Sepalsi petals and stamens J-superior, inserted on the disk, which 



18 coniliient with the carpels 2. Ntmph.«ia.. 



Sepals inferior ; petals superior ; carpels sunk in the torus ... 3. Bakclata. 



Sepals, petals and stamens superior. Carpels sunk in the torus . 4. Edetale. 



SuBOEDEE III. Nelumbieae. Sepals 4-5. Petals a,nd stamens indefi- 

 nite Carpels irregularly scattered, sunk in pits of the turbinate disk. 

 Ovides 1-2. Seed exalbuminous. 



5. Neltjmbiom. 



1. SRASEMXA, Schreber. 



A slender aquatic, with a creeping rootstock. Stem branched. Leaves 

 alternate, peltate, floating ; petioles and peduncles clothed with mucus. 

 .^0M«r red, peduncles axillary. Sepals 3r Petals 3, Imenr. Stamens 1^18 ; 

 anthers linear, slits lateral. Z>isA small. Ovaries 6-18, cylindric ; stigma ■ 

 dilated, villous ; ovules 2-3, pendulous from the walls of the ovary. Carpels 

 coriaceous, indehiscent. Seeds albuminous. 



1. B. peltata, Pursh. ; leaves elliptic-oblong, peduncles pubescent. 

 S.f. <fc T.- Fl. Ind. i. 246. Hydropeltis purpurea, Eichard ; DC. Prodr. 

 , 112 ; Griff. Itin. Notes, 160. 



Bhotan near Punaka, alt. 6000 ft., Griffith; Khasia hills near_ Nonkreem, alt. 

 4600 ft., E.f. & r.— DisTBiB. Eastern N. America; Eastern Australia. 



Leaves 2-4 in. Mowers \ in. diam. Sepals pubescent. Petals rose-red. 

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