1889.] G. Kiag— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Femnsula. 389 



or many and scattered over the walls of the cells, anatropous or orthotro- 

 pous. Fndt 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 0 ; 

 embryo enclosed in the enlarged amniotic sac. — Distrib. Temperate 

 and tropical ; genera 8, species 30-40. 



Suborder I. Nymphmce. Sepals 4-6. Petals and stamens inde- 

 finite. Carpels confluent with one another or with the disk into one 

 ovary. Ovules many. Seeds albuminoiis. 



Sepals, petals and stamens ^-superior, inserted on the 



disk which is confluent with the carpels ... 1. Nymplicea, 



Sepals inferior ; petals superior ; carpels sunk in the 



torus ... ... ... ... 2. Barclay a. 



Suborder II. Nelumbiem. Sepals 4-5. rctals and stamens inde- 

 finite. Carpels irregularly scattered, sunk in pits of the turbhiate disk. 

 OuaZes 1-2. /SeecZsexalbuminous... ... ...3. Nelumbitim. 



1. Nymph J!A, L. 



Large herbs ; rootstock creeping. Flowers expanded, large, floating 

 on long radical scapes. Sepals 4, adnate to the base of the disk. Petals 

 in many series, inner successively transformed into stamens, all adnate to 

 the disk. Filaments petaloid ; anthers small, linear, introrse. Ovaries 

 many, 1- seriate, sunk in the fleshy disk and forming with it a many- 

 colled syncarp crowned by connate, radiating, stigmas : ovules many, 

 anatropous. Fruit a spongy berry ripening under water. Seeds small, 

 buried in pulp. — Distrib. Species 20, most temperate and tropical 

 regions. 



1. N. STELLATA, Willd. Leaves elliptic, deeply cordate, entire or 

 with obtuse shallow sinuate teeth, often blotched with purple below, 6 to 8 

 in. long. Flowers I'S to 9 in. in diam., blue (white, or pink in varieties), 

 petals 10 to 30, linear-lanceolate. Stamens 10 to 50, anthers with ajiical 

 appendages. Stigmatio rays 10 to 25. Fruit rS to 2 in. in diam. Seeds 

 sub-striate. Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. i. 114 : Hook fll. & Th. Fl. Ind. i. 243 : 

 Wight lo. W : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. ii. 90. 



Common throughout the warmer parts of the Indo-Malayan region. 

 Distrib. Australia. 



Var. 1. VEKSICOLOB, Hf. & Th. I. c. Flower and leaves inter- 

 mediate between this and the next ; the former white, rose or blue. N. 

 versicolor, Roxb. Hort Beng. 41; Fl. Ind. ii. 577; Bot. Mag. t. 1189; 

 Wall. Cat. 7257. N. punctata, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 29. N. 

 Edgewortliii and N. Ilookeriana, Lehm. der Gatt. Nymph. 7 and 21. 



Var. 2. PAEYIFLORA. Hf. & Th. I. o. Leaves and flowers much 



