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II. Nymph.® a. Water-lily. 
Carpels 16-20, polyspermous, included within the 
enlarged torus, with the stigmata radiating over a 
berry-like fruit. Nectary 1, in the centre of the 
stigma, sessile, ovato-globose. Sepals 4, surrounding 
the margin of the torus. Petals 16-28 adnate on an 
elevated torus which covers the ovary. 
Name, given to this genus from the circumstance of the 
plants, of which it is composed, growing in water, the resi- 
dence ascribed by the poets of antiquity to the Water-Nymphs. 
1. Nymphaea. Large Water-lily. 
Leaves peltate sinuato-dentate very glabrous, nerves 
beneath very prominent and areolately reticulated. 
Sloane, Hist. I. 252. — Broivne, 243 — J)e Cund. Syst. II. 54* 
HAB. Lagoons, and ponds of water. Near the Ferry. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Leaves peltate, cordate, sinuato-dentate, with the under sur- 
face of deep purple colour, and traced with prominent reticula- 
ted nerves : petiole terete, coloured. Sepals 4, lanceolate, 
nerveless, externally green marked with purple dots, upwards 
of an inch in length. Petals 12-20 (the two outer ones sepal- 
oid,) oblong, slightly narrowing towards the base, obtuse, thin, 
white, longitudinally veined. Stamens numerous, in about 4 
rows, inserted (as also the petals) on the under surface of the 
elevated torus. Stigmata 15-20, peltately rayed. Nectary in 
the centre of the shield of the stigmata, sessile, hemispherical. 
Carpels of the same number as the stigmata, many-seeded : seeds 
attached to the sides of the carpels, arillated. 
There is a variety common in the ponds near the sea-shore 
in St George’s, in which the leaves are duplicalo dentate. 
2. Nymphaea blanda ? Marsh-lily. 
Leaves cordate very entire, nerves on the under 
surface channelled, petals 12-16 acuminate. 
N. alba, major, Sloane, I. 252. — Lunan, Hort. Jam. II. 271 — 
N. blanda, Meyer, Prim. FI. Esseq. 201. — De Cand. Syst. II. 59. 
HAB. Ditches and marshy land, not common. Marsh, on 
the road from Montpelier estate to the Penn, St Thomas in 
the east. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Calycine sepals 4, lanceolate, marked externally with purplish 
streaks or dots. Petals in my specimens 12, (the 4 outermost, 
sepaloid), shorter than the sepals, but twice the length of the 
