Nymphma.\ floha indica. 241 



sub-16, appendiculis brevibus cylindraceig, seminibus minutis. — BO. 

 Syd. i. 56 ; Led. M. Ross. i. 83. 



ji. Kashmiriana; ovario pubescente v. villoso. — N. Cachemiriana, 

 Cambess. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 11. t. 10. N. Kosteletzkyi, Palliardi mss. 

 in Lehm. Hamb. Garten und Blumem. viii. 369. N. alba, var. Koste- 

 letzkyi, Planchon, Etudes sur les Nymph. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xix. 53. 



Hab. Kashmir, alt. 5300 ped., Winterboitom! — Var. ^. Kashmir, 

 Jacquemont.- — (PL Apr. Mai.) {v. v.) 



DisTRiB. Europ. total Sibiria ! Am. Bor.! 



Folia suborbiculata, coriacea, vix aut non peltata, subtiis tenuiter venosa, integer- 

 rima, lobis paralldis v. subdivergentibus. Sepala lineari- /. ovato-oblonga, reticu- 

 latim nervosa. Peiala sub-10, exteriora sepalis Eequilonga, linearl-oblonga. Sta- 

 mina perplurima, filamentis subdilatatis. Stigmatis appendices suberccti. Pollen 

 ecbinulatum. Semina punctis tniuutis leviter striata. 



Our specimens are certainly referable to the common white Water-lily of Europe. 

 Planchon remarks, under N. Cacliemiriana, which he had not seen, that it is too 

 nearly allied to N. alia, of which we do not doubt that it is a form, though the 

 plate in Jacquemont's Voyage is in many points unlike that plant, the petals being 

 too narrow and acute, and the fruit differcDt-lookiug. It is, however, impossible to 

 figure Symphmm from dried specimens. Cambessedes describes the fruit as lanate ; 

 and we find, from a memorandum by Lehraann in the Hookerian Herbarium, that 

 the ovary of N. Kostelelzlcyi is villous. Planchon has referred JV. Kosteletzkyi to 

 N. alia. 



3. W. Lotus (L. Sp. PI. 739) ; foliis argute sinuato-dentatis, se- 

 palis obloiigis oblusis 5-7-costatis, petalis lineari- v. ovato-oblongis, 

 filamentis basi late dilatatis, antlieris inappendiculatis, stigmatis appen- 

 dioibus cylindraceo-clavatis. 



a. Lotus ; foliis subtus dense pubescentibus orbiculatis reniformi- 

 busve lobis divergentibus approximatisve, floribus amplis rubris roseis 

 albidisve.— N. Lotus, Belile, Fl. Mgyft. t. Ix. /. 1 ; DC. Syst. ii. 53. N. 

 rubra, Roxb. M. Ind. ii. 576; BG. Syst. ii. 53; mght et Jrn. Prod. 

 i. 17 ; TFiffht. III. i. t. 10 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 503 ; Bot. Mng. t. 1380 

 et 1364 ; Wall. Cat. 7355 ! N. Devoniensis, EooTc. Bot. Mag. t. 4665. 

 N. edulis, BC. Syst. ii. 52; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 578 ; Wall. Cat. 7354 ! 

 Castalia magnifica, Sal. Par. Lond. t. 14. C. mystica, Ann. Bot. ii. 73. 

 N. semisterilis, Lehmann, Ueber die Oattung Nymphcea, 33. 



p. cordifolia; foliis subtus dense pubescentibus cordato-ovatis lo- 

 bis divergentibus, floribus mediooribus albis v. carneis. 



y. pubescens; foliis subtus puberulis pubescentibusve, floribus mi- 

 noribus albis roseis rubris ve. — N. pubescens, Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 1154; 

 BC. Syst. ii. 52, Prod. i. 115 ; Blume, Bijdr. i. 48 ; Wight et Am. Prod. 

 i. 17 et 447 ; Wall. Cat. 7356!; Planclion, I.e. 35. N. sagittate, Edgew. 

 in Linn. Soc. Trans, xx. 39. 



Hab. a et y. Per totam Indiara calidam vulgaris. — /i. .Chittagong ! 

 — (F\. per totum annum.) (v. v.) 



DiSTRiB. Africa borealis ! et tropica! Hungaria ! Java! ins. Philip.! 

 Folia 6-unc. ad pedalia, juniora subsagittata. Flores 2-10 unc. lati. Pollen 

 laove. Semina elliptico-rotundata, papillosa v. subscaberula. 



Among the Indian varieties of this plant, we believe that we have seen specimens 



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