or many and scattered over the walls of the cells, anatropous or orthotro- 
pous. Fruit formed of the connate carpels, or of separate and indehiscont 
carpels, or of the enlarged turbinate flat- topped disk with the nut-Iiko 
carpels sank in its crown. Seeds naked or aril led ; albumen floury or 0 j 
embryo enclosed in the enlarged amniotic sac. — Diatrib. Temperate 
and tropical; genera 8, species 30-40. 
Suborder I. NympKasce. Sepals 4-6. Petals and stamens inde- 
finite. Carpels confluent with one another or with the disk into oue 
ovary. Ovules many. Seeds albuminous. 
Sepals, petals and stamens f -superior, inserted on the 
disk which is confluent with the carpels ... 1. Nymph tea* 
Sepals inferior ; petals superior ; carpels sunk in the 
torus ... ... ... ... 2. Barclaya. 
Suborder II. Nelumbiem, Sepals 4-5. Petals and stamens inde- 
finite. Carpels irregularly scattered, sunk in pits of the turbinate disk. • 
Ovules 1-2. Seeds oxalbuminous... ... ... 3. Nelumbium. 
1. Nymphs a, L. 
Large herbs ; rootstock creeping. Flowers expanded, large, floating 
on long radical scapes. Sepals 4, adnatc to the base of tho 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- 
celled syncarp crowned by connate, radiating, stigmas : ovules rnanj-, 
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/O to 9 iu. in diam,, blue (white, or pink in varieties), 
petals 10 to 30, linear-lanceolate. Stamens 10 to 50, anthers with apical 
appendages. Stigmatio rays 10 to 25. Fruit 1*5 to 2 in. in diam. Seeds 
sub-striate. Hook. fil. PI. B. Ind. i. 114: Hook (11. & Th. PI, Ind. i. 243 ; 
Wight Ic. V£ : Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. ii. 90. 
Commou throughout the warmer parts of the Indo-Malayan region. 
Distrib. Australia. 
Var. L versicolor, Hf. & Th. I. c. Flower and leaves inter- 
mediate between this and the next j the former white, rose or bine. N. 
versicolor, Roxb. Hort Beng. 41; PL Ind. ii. 577; Bot. Mag. t, 1189; 
Wall. Cat. 7257. N. punctata, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 29. N. 
Edijeworthii and N. Hookeriana t Lohm. dor Gatt. Nymph. 7 and 21. 
Var. 2. parviflora. Hf. & Th. I. c. Leaves and flowers much 
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