Nymphoides forbesiana (Griseb.) Kuntze

Nymphoides forbesiana (Griseb.) Kuntze
- Kuntze, O. 1891. Revisio Generum Plantarum. p. 429.

Nymphoides nilotica (Kotschy & Peyr.) Leonard
- Leonard, J. 1951. Especes congolaises nouvelles ou interessantes. Bulletin de la Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique (Belgian Journal of Botany) 84:47-60.
Nymphoides forbesiana (Griseb.) Hand.-Mazz.
- Handel-Mazzetti, H.R.E. 1938. Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 87:126.
Limnanthemum kirkii N.E.Br.
- Brown, N.E. in Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. ed. 1904. Flora of Tropical Africa 4(1):584-585.
Limnanthemum thunbergianum N.E.Br.
- Brown, N.E. in Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. ed. 1904. Flora of Tropical Africa 4(1):584-585.
Limnanthemum whytei N.E.Br.
- Brown, N.E. in Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. ed. 1904. Flora of Tropical Africa 4(1):584-585.
Menyanthes campestris α part Macrae & Wight ex C.B.Clarke
- Clarke, C.B. in Hooker, J.D. 1884. The Flora of British India. vol. 4. p. 130-132.
[see Nymphoides parvifolia (Wall.) Kuntze]
Limnanthemum niloticum Kotschy & Peyr.
- Kotschy, T., Peyritsch, J.J. 1867. Plantae Tinneanae. p. 28.
Limnanthemum forbesianum Griseb.
- Grisebach, A. 1839. Genera et Species Gentianearum. p. 336-348.
Villarsia simsii G.Don
- Don, G. 1837. A general system of gardening and botany (General history of dichlamydeous plants) 4:167-169.
Menyanthes indica Sims
- Sims, J. 1803. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 18:658.

status	collector	date	locality
type (Limnanthemum forbesianum)	Forbes		Mozambique.
type (Limnanthemum forbesianum)	Macrae		Ceylon [Sri Lanka].
type (Limnanthemum kirkii)	Kirk 2 Hildebrandt 1995		Mozambique. Dist. Zanzibar
type (Limnanthemum niloticum)	de Heugliin	Dec 1868	Grows at Bongo [Tanzania: Dar es Salaam] in the river Djur, which flows into the Nile.
type (Limnanthemum whytei)	Whyte 40		Nile Land. British East Africa: north of Mombasa [Kenya], to Lamu and Witu.

Limnanthemum kirkii N.E.Br.
- Brown, N.E. in Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. ed. 1904. Flora of Tropical Africa 4(1):584-585.

Leaves 1¼-2 in. [3.2-5.1 cm] long, 1¼-2¾ in. [3.2-7.0 cm] broad, orbicular or reniform, with a deep acute or very broad obtuse sinus at the base. False petioles ½-1 lin. [1-2 mm] thick, bearing 4-18 flowers in a cluster 1-3 lin. [2-6 mm] below the leaf-blade. Pedicels ½-1¼ in. [1.3-3.2 cm] long, ¼-½ lin. [0.5-1.0 mm] thick. Sepals 2-2½ lin. [4-5 mm] long, oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse. Corolla-tube with 5 tufts of hairs above the middle; lobes oblong, acute, with numerous hairs on their inner face. Hypogynous glands subquadrate, very minutely ciliate. Fruit ellipsoid or globose, as long as the calyx, 6-10-seeded. Seeds ¾ lin. [1.5 mm] in diam., rather more than ½ lin. [1 mm] thick, slightly compressed-globose, densely covered with minute papilla-like tubercles.

Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk, 2! Hildebrandt, 1995!

Limnanthemum thunbergianum N.E.Br. auct. non
- Brown, N.E. in Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. ed. 1904. Flora of Tropical Africa 4(1):584-585.

Leaves 1-5 in. in diam., orbicular, with a deep acute sinus at the base, coriaceous. False petioles ¾-2 lin. thick, bearing 10-25 flowers in a cluster, close to or from ¼-1 in. below the leaf-blade. Pedicels ¾-2 in. long, ½-⅔ lin. thick. Sepals 2-3 lin. long, lanceolate or oblong, acute or obtuse. Corolla white; tube with 5 tufts of hairs above the middle; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, ciliate, and with long hairs on the inner face. Hypogynous glands subquadrate, very minutely ciliate. Fruit ellipsoid, 6-18-seeded, equalling or shorter than the calyx. Seeds ¾ lin. in diam., ½ lin. thick, compressed globose, subcarinate, smooth, slightly shining, greyish, mottled with darker.
Lower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; Mashonge stream, near Napalanka, Baum, 592, and in swamp by the River Kubango, Baum, 397 (ex Gilg). Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Forbes! Quilimane, Scott! Also in South Africa.
L. forbesianum, Griseb., according to the type specimens at Kew, was founded upon the above-quoted specimen collected by Forbes (which has two leaves, respectively 1 and 2½ in. in diam., with pedicels as described above,) and an utterly different plant collected in Ceylon by Macrae, in which the leaves are ⅓-1¼ in. in diam., and the flowers in pairs at the nodes of an elongated stem, or, in small plants grown in very shallow water, among the axils of the leaves. Macrae's dried specimens (No. 87) do not differ in any way from those of L. aurantiacum Dalz., although the flowers are stated to be white on the label. See Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 132. Two very different plants having thus been combined by Grisebach under one description, which agrees with neither of them, it appears better to discard the name L. forbesianum altogether.

Limnanthemum whytei N.E.Br.
- Brown, N.E. in Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. ed. 1904. Flora of Tropical Africa 4(1):584-585.

Leaves 2¾-4¼ in. in diam., otherwise as in in L. Rautaneni. False petioles 1-1⅓ lin. thick, with 15-30 flowers in a cluster, 1-3 lin. below the leaf-blade. Pedicels 1-¼-2-¼ in. long, ¼-⅓ lin. thick. Sepals 2½-3 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse. Corolla yellow; lobes ciliate and covered with long hairs. Fruit globose, shorter than the sepals, about 5-9-seeded. Seeds almost globose, ¾ lin. in diam. and almost as thick, rather densely covered with very numerous small tubercles, whitish.

Nile Land. British East Africa: north of Mombasa [Kenya], to Lamu and Witu, Whyte, 40!

Limnanthemum niloticum Kotschy & Peyr.
- Kotschy, T., Peyritsch, J.J. 1867. Plantae Tinneanae. p. 28.

Foliis cordato-orbiculatis palmatim 5-7-nervibus utrimque ad nervos imprimis subtus punctato-asperiusculis, calycis laciniis bis et dimidio quam corolla brevioribus lanceolato-oblongis obtusis, corollae segmentis margine fimbriatis intus ad basin squamula subsessili rotundata plumoso-fimbriata auctis, stylo abbreviato, stigmate bilobo, lobis lobulatis, capsula polysperma (7-10), seminibus subcompresso-globosis carinatis muricatis.	Leaves cordate-orbiculate, palmately five- to seven-veined, [utrimque ad nervos imprimis], punctate-roughened beneath. Calyx lobes shorter than the corolla by half, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse. Corolla segments fimbriate at the margin, with subsessile, round, plumose-fimbriate scales within at the base. Style abbreviated, stigma two-lobed, lobes with lobules. Capsule many-seeded (7-10). Seeds subcompressed-globose, keeled, muricate.
Crescit apud Bongo in flumine Djur, qui in Nilum influit; ibi m. Decombri 1868 legit de Heugliin. Herb. Caesar. Palat. Vladob. Exp. Tinn. n. 85.	Grows at Bongo [Tanzania: Dar es Salaam] in the river Djur, which flows into the Nile. There de Heugliin described it in December 1868 (Herb. Caesar. Palat. Vladob. Exp. Tinn. n. 85).
[extensive description]
Affine L. Thunbergiano, quod differt foliis laevibus, corollae segmentis intus fimbriatis, glandula stipitata, seminibus laevibus. L. orbiculatum eo differt, quod corollam albam, coronam fimbrianum, semina non carinata habet.	Affinity with L. thunbergianum, which differs in smooth leaves, corolla segments fimbriate within, stipitate glandules, smooth seeds. L. orbiculatum differs from this species because it has a white corolla, a fimbriate corolla, seeds not keeled.

Limnanthemum forbesianum Griseb.
- Grisebach, A. 1839. Genera et Species Gentianearum. p. 336-348.

Sepalis corolla 2plo brevioribus, capsulam subaequantibus, corollae albae lobis intus pilosis margine fimbriatis, versus basin glandula solitaria pedicellata auctis, stylo abbreviato crasso 2lobo, seminibus numerosis opacis tenuissime punctatis nec muricatis obtuse carinatis globosis.	Sepals two times shorter than the corolla, sub-equaling the capsule. Corolla lobes white, hairy within, fimbriate at the margin, with a solitary, pedicellate glandule at the base. Style abbreviated, thick, two-lobed. Seeds numerous, opaque, thinly punctate, not muricate, obtusely keeled, globose.
Adumbr. Seminibus ab omnibus recedit, foliis parvis 1" longis latisque facile decognoscitur: varietate parvifoliae L. Humboldtiani simile, sepalorum longitudine, stylo brevi, corollae colore et seminibus dignoscitur. Petioli communes numerosi ex eodem rhizomati; proprii breves. Pedunculi numerosi folium aequantes l. superantes. Folium supra laeve, subtus asperiusculum l. glandulis ipsarum diametro 4plo dissitis conspersum, nervis obsoletis, auriculis distantibus. Pili corollae disci inordinati.	Adumbr. Differs from all in the seeds; easily distinguished by the small leaves, 1 in [2.5 cm] long and broad. Similar to L. humboldtianum in the variety of small leaves, diagnosed by the length of sepals, by the short style, by the color of the corolla and seeds. Common petioles numerous from the same rhizome; [proprii] short. Peduncles numerous, equaling or surpassing the leaf. Leaf smooth above, slightly roughened with glandules beneath ... veins not visible, auricles distant. Hairs of the corolla disc inordinate.
Patria. Mozambique (Forbes!). Ins. Zeylon (Macrae!).

Villarsia simsii G.Don
- Don, G. 1837. A general system of gardening and botany (General history of dichlamydeous plants) 4:167-169.

Natant; leaves reniformly cordate, subcrenated: hind lobes rounded, divariacate; pedicels elongated, umbellate, rising from the tops of the petioles; calycine segments lanceolate; segments of corolla bearded their whole length.
Native of Nipaul. Flowers yellow. Wallich states this plant to be a native of Nipaul, and that the young stalks are there employed in making curries. Sir James Smith describes his V. Indica as having yellow flowers, and as being a native of the Cape of Good Hope; it is probably the same as the present plant, or a new species.
Fl. May, Aug. Pl. floating.