!x6 viii. nYMPH jEACEiE . [Nymphcea. 
(i) N. stellata Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 1153; Hook, pi F.B.I. i. 114; 
King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lviii. (2), 389. 
Leaves elliptic deeply cordate, entire or shortly toothed, purple 
beneath, 6 to 8 in. long. Flowers 1*5 to 6 in. across, white or 
tinted pale blue. Petals linear lanceolate, 10 to 30. Stamens 
10 to 50, with long appendages. Common in ditches and back¬ 
waters of rivers. Flowers very variable in size from little more 
than an inch across to about 4 or 6 in., according to depth of water. 
Hab. Malacca, Sungei Rambei. Dindings, Pangkor (small form). 
Pahang, Lake Chenei (Fox) large form. Province Wellesley. 
Perak, Perlis, and Setul. Kelantan, near Kota Bharu. Distrib. 
Indo-Malaya, Australia. Native names : Ati-Ati Payah; Kelipoh; 
Teratei Kechil. . 
,. i (2) N. Lotus Linn. Sp. PL 511: Hook. fil. F.B.I. 1.114; Bot. 
&*'**««* * Mag. t. 4665, var. pubescens. 
Leaves peltate deeply cordate, edge distinctly sinuate, toothed, 
purple and pubescent beneath, 9 in. across. Flowers 2 to 5 in. 
wide. Sepals blunt. Petals white to dark pink. Anthers without 
appendages. Stigmatic rays with clubbed appendages. Hab. 
Ponds. Malacca (Griffith)*; Durian Tungul (Burkill), flowers 
white. Patalung (Gwynne Vaughan), flowers reddish pink. 
Distrib. India, Malaya. 
Often cultivated by Chinese and others for ornament; easily known when 
white-flowered by its strongly toothed leaves. Our form is the variety 
pubescens with leaves pubescent beneath. /* 
2 . BARCLAYA, Wallich. 
Small aquatic herbs with long villous rootstocks, and floating 
or erect leaves. Flowers hardly expanding, pinkish. Sepals 5, 
narrow apiculate, inserted at the base of the ovary. Petals 
numerous biseriate connate below in a tube confluent with the 
carpels. Stamens many in many series inserted in the corolla 
tube; filaments short; anthers pendulous. Ovaries 6 to 8, confluent 
pink, apex conical; styles triangular connate into a 10-rayed cone. 
Berry globose pulpy. Seeds elliptic spiny, albumen floury. 
Species 4, Burma to Borneo. 
Leaves rounded cordate, tomentose beneath ; sepals 
tomentose narrow with long glabrous tails . . (1) B. Motleyi 
Leaves thin, oblong ovate broad glabrous, base round; 
sepals narrow. ( 2 ) B. Kunstleri 
Leaves oblong obtuse, base cordate glabrous; sepals broad, 
glabrous tails short ( 3 ) B, longifolia 
(1) B. Motleyi Hook. fil. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 147, t. 21; 
King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 390. 
Leaves rather thick, round cordate, blunt or apiculate, glabrous, 
except the nerves above, tomentose beneath, 3 in. long, 3 to 5 in. 
