NymphtBa.'\ vii. nymph^ace^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 115 



4. N. py^meea, AUon ; very small, leaves oblong-orbicular or quite 

 entire, lobes acute, flowers white, stamens, without appendages, stigmatic 

 rays 4-8 broad ovate spoon-shaped. Bot. Mag. t. 1525 ; H.f. diT. Fl. Ind 



244. 



Khasia hills, Jenkins, in marshes at Nonkreem, alt. 5600 ft., H.f. & T. — ^Distkib. 

 Siberia, N. China. 



Bootstock woolly with soft black hairs. Leaves 1-2 in. long, lobes diverging. 

 Flowers 1^-2 in. diam. Calyx base square ; sepals 4, obtuse. Petals about 10, obtuse. 

 Stamens 3-4-seriate ; pollen subgranular. 



3. BARCZiA,VA, Wallich. 



I 

 An aquatic herb ; rootstock short, viUous. Leaves linear-oblong, hastate, 

 floating. Peduncles extra-axillary. Flowers red or purplish. Sepals. b, in- 

 serted at the base of the ovary. Petals numerous, 3-seriate, united into a 

 tube that is confluent with the carpels. Stajnens many-seriate, inserted on 

 a ring within the corolla-tube ; anthers pendulous from recurved fila- 

 ments, outer imperfect. Ovaries about 10, confluent, top conical ; styles 

 conniving into a 10-rayed cone, stigmatiferous within ; ovules many, ortho- 

 tropous, parietaUy scattered. Berry globose, pulpy, crowned with the 

 corolla-tube and annular torus. Seeds spheric, echinate, albumen floury ; 

 embryo minute. 



1. B. long'ifolia, Wall, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 442, t. 18 ; Hook. Ic, 

 PL t. 809, 810; Griff. Notul. 218, t. 57 ; H.f.& T. Fl. Ind. 246. 



BiKMA and from Pegu to MEKaui. 



Leaves 6-8 by 1-1 J in., membranous, smooth or pubescent beneath ; petiole as long, 

 slender. Flowers J-IJ in. long, dull green outside, red or purple within, inodorous.' 

 Fruit as large as a cherry. 



4. I:TTB,VAZ.Z:, Salisb.' 



A densely prickly aquatic ; rootstock thick. Leaves orbicular, corrugate. 

 Flowers violet, partially submerged. Sepals 4, erect, inserted on the edge 

 of the torus above the carpels. Petals numerous, 3-5-seriate, shorter than 

 the petals. Stamens many, many-seriate, fascicled in eights ; filaments 

 linear ; poUen spheric, 3-nucleate. Ovary 8-celled, sunk in the dilated top 

 of the torus; stigma discoid, depressed, concave; ovules few, parietal. 

 Berry spongy, crowned with the persistent sepals. Seeds 8-20, arU pulpy ; 

 testa tMok, black, albumen mealy, embryo small. 



1. E, ferox, Salish. ; Boxb. Cor. Plant. iiL t. 244 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1447 ; 

 H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 245. E. indica and E. ferox, Planch. Modes Nymph. 29. 

 Anneslia spinosa, Rosi>. Fl. Ind. ii. 573. 



Odde ; Jheels of Eastebn Benoal, and Kashmir Lake. — Disteib. China. 



Mootstock short. Leaves 1-4 ft. diam., elliptic or orbicular, green above, downy and 

 red or purple beneath, with strong spin;^ ribs. Flowers 1-2 in. long, bright red inside, 

 green and shining outside. Berry 2-4 in. diam. Seeds from a pea to a cherry in,size, 

 much eaten roasted. 



5. NEliVnXBXVnX, Juss. 



An erect large, water herb with milky juice ; rootstock stout, creeping. 

 Leaves raised high above the water, peltate. Flowers rose-red white or 

 yellow. Sepals 4-5, inserted on the top of the scape, caducous. Petals and 

 stamens many, hypugynous, many-seriate, caducous. Anthers with a clubbed 



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