116 VII. NYMPH^ACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) {NelnmUnm. 



appendage. Ovaries many, 1-celled, sunk in the flat top of an obconic 

 fleshy toras, attachment lateral ; style very short, exserted, stigma terminal, 

 dilated ; ovules 1-2, pendulous. GarpeU ovoid, loose in the cavities of the 

 enlarged spongy torus; pericarp bony, smooth. Seed fiUing the carpel, 

 testa spongy, albumen 0; cotyledons fleshy, thick, enclosing the large 

 folded plumule.— DiSTKiB. Species 2, one Asiatic and Australian ; the 

 other W. Indian. 



1. M". speclosum, WUld. ; Wight & Am. Prodr. i. 16 ; Roai). Fl. Ind. 

 647 ; Wight III. i. t. 9 ; H. /. & T. Fl. Ind. 247. N. asiaticum, Ridi. in 

 .dnn. lf«5. xvii. 249, t. 9. Nelumbo Indica, PoiV. J'recyc?. iv. 453. Cyamus 

 Nelumbo, Smith Exot. Bot. i. 59, t. 31, 32. C. mysticus, Scdisb. Ann. £ot. ii. 

 75. Nymphssa Nelumbo, Li7in. 



Tbroughout India, extending as far to the N.W. aa Kashmib. — Disteib. Feroia, 

 Malay Islands, China, Japan, Tropical Australia. 



Peduncles and petioles 3-6 ft. high, full of spiral vessels, smooth or with small scat- 

 tered prickles. Leaves 2-3 ft. diam., membranous, glancouft, cupped. Flowers 4-10 in. 

 diam., white or rose. Petals elliptic, concave, veined. Fruiting torus 2-4 in. diam. 

 £ipe carpels from the size of a pea to a small cherry. 



Order VHI. PAPAVERACCS:. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Annual or perennial herbs ; juice usually mUky or coloured. Leaves 

 radical or alternate, stipules 0. Flowers often large, nodding in bud, regular, 

 hermaphrodite ; perianth and stamens very caducous. Sepals 2, hypogynous, 

 concave. Petals 4, 2-seriate, large, crumpled. Stamens very many, fila- 

 ments slender ; anthers erect, slits lateral Ovary 1-celled, or 2-4-ceUed by 

 the produced placentas ; style short or ; stigmas radiating, connate and 

 opposite the placentas, or free and alternating with them ; ovules many- 

 seriate, parietal, anatropous. Carpels dehiscing by pores or valves. Seeds 

 many, small, albumen oily and fleshy ; embryo minute, 2-lobed or 2-fid. 

 — DiSTRiB. About 17 genera and 65 species, chiefly natives of the N. Temp. 

 Zone. 



The European genera Glaucium and Scemeria, both natives of Affghanistan, have 

 not been i'ound in the British possessions. 



* Capsule usually short, opening by short valves or pores. 



Stigmas 4 or more, radiating on a sessile disk 1 . Papatee. 



Stigmas 4^6, radiating from the top of a depressed style . . 1.*Aegemone. 



Stigmas 4-6, decurrent on the top of the style ...... 2. MecokopsiSi 



** Capsule sbort or long, dehiscing throughout its length. 



Ovary 1-celled ; stigma sessile, 4^6-lobed 3. Cathcaetia. 



Ovary 1-celled ; style erect, stigma 2-4-lobed 4. Stylophoeum. 



1. FAFAVSR, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, juice milky. Leaves lobed or cut. Flowers on 

 long peduncles. Ovary 1-celled ; stigma discoid or pyramidal -witb radiating 

 lobes opposite the placentas whicb project into the cell. Capside short, 

 opening by small valves under the lobes of the persistent stigma. Seeds 

 small, pitted.— DiSTiiiB. Species about 12, temp. Europe and Asia,, with an 

 Australian and a S. African representative. 



