smaller than in the last, the latter usually blue and sometimes not more 
thau 1 to 2 in. in diam. N. strilata, Wiild. W. & A. Prod. i. 17. 
2. B arc lata, Wallich. 
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, 
3-seriate, united below into a tube which is confluent with the carpels. 
Stametis in many series inserted within the corolla tube, h" laments slender, 
short, reflexed; the anthers pendulous, the onter 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. U. mottleyi, Hook, lib in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 157, t. 21. 
Leaves rotund, the apex sometimes bluntly apiculate, the base deeply 
cordate, glabrous on the upper surfaco, otherwise tomentose as are the 
peduncles ; length 3 in., breadth 3 5 in., petiole 3 to 7 in Sepals tomen- 
tose externally with long glabrous sub-apical tails. Petals linear, pink 
or red. Seeds echinato. 
In ponds at low elevations in the Forest. Malacca, Griffith ; Ma in gay, 
Perak, Scortechini, Wray, King's collector. Distrib. Borneo, Motley, 
Lobb. 
Var, Kusstleri, King, Leaves ovate-rotund, cordate, the under 
surfaces and petioles pubescent or glabrous, as are the peduncles : petals 
claret-coloured ; seeds rugose, occasionally echinato. 
In similar situations with the last. Perak ; King's collector, Scor- 
techini, Wray. The leaves of this are thinner in texture thau 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 glabresccnt, length 6 to 8 
in., breadth 1 to 1"5 in., petiolo 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 ; 
Gritr. Nottil. 21s, t. 57; 11. f. & T. FL Ind. 2it3. 
Andamans. Distrib, Barmah. 
3. Nelumbium, Juss. 
An erect large water herb with milky juice; rootstook 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. 
Petuls aud stamens many, hypogynous, many-seriate, caducous. Anthers 
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