*Nymphaea caerulea Savigny*
Leaves entire or slightly wavy at base, orbicular or ovate-orbicular, narrowly peltate, becoming 30 to 40 cm. in diameter; green above; under surface green with small dark purple spots, purplish all round near margin. Flowers 7 to 15 cm. across, open from 7.30 a. m. to 12 m. Buds conical. Sepals thickly marked with black lines and dots. Petals 14 to 20, lanceolate, light blue above, lower half dull white. Stamens 50 to 73; appendage long (0.5 cm. on outermost stamens), slender, pale blue *Nymphaea micrantha Guillemin & Perrottet* Leaves small, round-cordate, peltate, entire, petiolate ; petioles very long, slender ; lobes divaricate, acuminate ; under surface reddish, marked with violet-black dots ; upper surface glabrous, pale green, in mature plants bulbiferous at the summit of the petiole ; stigmatic rays 15. Notes. — Hooker & Thomson record, and the herbaria bear them out, that no sharp line could be drawn between the varieties of this species as it occurs in India, but they were certainly wrong in including the African plants. The three extreme Indian forms are themselves fairly recognizable. The margin of the leaf may be al- most entire. The pustules so evident on the leaf of our N. versicolor cultivated from seeds sent by Mr. Gollan of Saharanpur, India, may be present at times in the other varieties. Our plant also had a great number of bulbils on the caudex, as shown in several herbarium specimens both of blue and pink forms. https://archive.org/stream/waterliliesmonog00cona/waterliliesmonog00cona_djvu.txt On Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:49:09 PM UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote: > > How to differentiate *Nymphaea micrantha* Perr. & Guill. from *Nymphaea > caerulea* Savigny? > Thank you > Regards > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
