. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 148 THE WATERLILIES. or orbicular, cleft nearly to the petiole, to cm. long, reddish beneath, with black specks. Seed smooth. N. Heudelotii, Planchon 1853 b, according to the original specimen. N. pseudo-pygmaea, Lehmann 1853 a, according to the original specimen in hb. Kew, which con- sists of a submerged leaf, with flower and fruit, much dilapidated, coll. Heudelot and communicated by hb. Paris. DESCRIPTION.—Planchon gives the following: Dwarf, glabrous; floating leaves cordate-suborbiculate, very narrowly peltate, with the sinus narr
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 148 THE WATERLILIES. or orbicular, cleft nearly to the petiole, to cm. long, reddish beneath, with black specks. Seed smooth. N. Heudelotii, Planchon 1853 b, according to the original specimen. N. pseudo-pygmaea, Lehmann 1853 a, according to the original specimen in hb. Kew, which con- sists of a submerged leaf, with flower and fruit, much dilapidated, coll. Heudelot and communicated by hb. Paris. DESCRIPTION.—Planchon gives the following: Dwarf, glabrous; floating leaves cordate-suborbiculate, very narrowly peltate, with the sinus narrow and nearly closed. Fio. 56.—Nymphaea heitdelotii•' (a), (ft), leaves; (c), flower; 1, 8, S, 4, sepals. From a drawing of the types in the notes of R. Caspary, now in hb. Berlin, by kind permission of the Directors. Natural size. (in the membranous submerged leaves wide open) ; margin slightly repand ; under sur- face purplish, violet spotted. Flowers small; sepals ovate at base, becoming rather long attenuate, with violet lines outside; petals 5 to 8, bluish, appendiculate, anthers five to six times longer than the rather broader filaments; rays of the stigma 8 to 10, short, triangular, acute. Fruit globose, shorter than the calyx; seed elliptic-globose, smooth (not costate). GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.—Senegambia, in shallow flowing streams; Fouta Dhiallon. TYPES.—Coll. Heudelot, No. 844, in 1837, seen in hbb. Delessert, Berlin, and Kew. In hb. Kew I saw another specimen consisting of a half-closed flower and two frag-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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