300 G. Kiucf—Ma/erialu for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



smaller tliau In tlie last, the latter usually blue and sometimes not more 

 thau 1 to 2 in. in diam. N. stellata, WiUd. W. & A. Prod. i. 17. 



2. Baeclaya, Wallicb. 

 Aquatic herbs with short villous root-stocks and floating leaves. 

 Peduncles elongate, sometimes extra-axillary. Flowers pink or claret- 

 coloured. Sepals 5, inserted at the base of the ovary. Petals numerous, 

 S-seriate, united below into a tube wHcli is confluent with the carpels. 

 Stamens in many series inserted within the corolla tube, filaments slender, 

 short, reflexed ; the anthers pendulous, the outer imperfect. Ovaries 

 about 6 to 8, confluent, the apex conical ; styles tri-angular, connivent 

 into a 10-rayed cone, stigmatiferous within : ovules numerous, ortho- 

 tropous, parietal. Berry globose, pulpy, crowned with the corolla-tube 

 and annular torus. Seeds elliptic, albumen floury, embryo small. 



1. B. MOTTLETi, Hook. fil. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 167, t, 21. 

 Leaves rotund, the apex sometimes bluntly apiculate, the base deeply 

 cordate, glabrous on the upper surface, otherwise tomentose as are the 

 peduncles ; length 3 in., breadth 8-5 in., petiole 3 to 7 in. Sepals tomen- 

 tose externally with long glabrous sub-apical tails. Petals linear, pink 

 or red. Seeds echinate. 



In ponds at low elevations in the Forest. Malacca, Griffith ; Maingay, 

 Perak, Scortechini, Wray, King's collector. Distrib. Borneo, Motley, 

 liobb. 



Var. KuNSTLEBi, King. Leaves ovate-rotund, cordate, the under 

 surfaces and petioles pubescent or glabrous, as are the peduncles : petals 

 claret-coloured ; seeds rugose, occasionally echinate. 



In similar situations with the last. Perak ; King's collector, Scor- 

 techini, Wray. The leaves of this are thinner in texture than those of 

 the typical form. 



2. B. LONGIFOLIA, Wall, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 442, t. 18. Leaves 

 oblong, obtuse, the base cordate, glabrous or glabrescent, length 6 to 8 

 in,, breadth 1 to 1-5 in., petiole 4 to 8 in. Sepals glabrous or glabrescent 

 with short apical tails. Petals oblong, reddish within, green externally. 

 Seeds echinate, Hook. fil. Fl, B. Ind. i. 115 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 809, 810 ; 

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



Audamans. Distrib. Burmah. 



3. Nelumbidm, Juss. 

 An erect large water herb with milky juice ; rootstock stout, creep- 

 ing. 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, hypogynous, many-seriate, caducous. Anthers 



