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appendage. " Ovaries many, 1-celled, sunk in the flat top of an obconic 

 fleshy torus, attachment lateral ; style very short, exserted stigma terminal, 

 dilated ; ovules 1-2,. pendulous. Carpels ovoid, loose in the cavities ot tiie 

 enlarged spongy torus; pericarp bony, smooth. Seed filling the carpel, 

 testa spongy, albumen 0; cotyledons fleshy, thick, enclosing the large 

 iblded plumule.— DiSTRiB. Species 2, one Asiatic and Austrahan; tne 

 other W. Indian. 



\f 1. K. speclosum, Willd. ; Wight d: Am. Prodr. i. 16; Roxb. Fl. hil 



^ 647 ; Wight IlL i, t. 9 ; H. /. & T. Fl. Ind. 247. K asiaticum, Rick m 



Ann. Mus. xvii. 249, t. 9. Nelumbo Indica, Poir. Encycl iv, 453. Cyamus 



Nelumbo, Smith Exot. Bot. i. 59, t. 31, 32. C. mysticus, Salish. Ann. Bot a 



75. Nymphsea Nelumbo, Linn, 



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Throughout India, extending as far to the N. W. as Kashmir.— Distrib. Persia 



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Malay Islands, China, Japan, Tropical Australia. . . 



Peduncles &nd petioles 3-6 ft. high, full of spiral vessels, smooth or with ^m^^^. " - 

 tered prickles. Leaves 2-3 ft. diam., membranous, glaucous, cupped. Flowers '*"J. J^' 

 diam., white or rose. Petals elliptic, concave, veined. Fruiting torus 2-4 in. uia 

 Ripe carpels from the size of a pea to a small cherry. * 



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Order VHI. PAPAVERACEiE. (By Hooker f. & Thoms^.)^ 



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Annual or perennial herbs; juice usually milky or coloured. Leav& 

 radical or alternate, stipules 0. Flowers often large, nodding in bud, reguiarj 

 hermaphrodite ; perianth and stamens very caducous. Sepals 2, bypogyn^u^, 

 concave. Petals 4, 2-seriate, large, crumpled. Stamens very many, "j^' 

 ments slender; anthers erect, slits lateral. Ovary 1-celled, or 2-4-cellea Dy 

 the produced placentas; style short orO; stigmas radiating, connate anu 

 opposite the placentas, or free and alternating with them ; ovules ^i"^ 

 seriate, parietal, anatropous. Carpels dehiscing by pores or valves. ^^^ 



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— DiSTEiB. About 17 genera and 65 

 Zone. 



The European genera Glaucium and . 

 not been found in the British possessions. 



t, both natives of Affghanistan, hate 



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Capsule usually short, opening by short valves or pores. 



1. Papaver/^- 



Stigm 



Stigmas 4-6» radiating trom the top of a depressed style ... 1.* Akg£MONE' 

 Stigmas 4-6, decurrent on the top of the stjle 2. Meconopsxs. 



** Capsule short or long, dehiscing throughout its length. 



Ovary 1-celled; stigma sessile, 4-6-lobed 3. CathCABTIA-^ 



Ovary 1-celled ; style erect, stigma 2-4-lohed 4. STyLOPH0BC»; 



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1. PAP AVER, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, juice milky. Leaves lobed or cut. ^^^^^tla 

 ^ long peduncles. Omry 1-celled ; stigma discoid or pyramidal with ^'''^^v'^-^ 

 Globes opposite the placentas which project into the cell. Cap^^^^ ^fi^J] 

 ■ opening by small valves under the lobes of the persistent stigma, vr^ 

 \smgJl, pitted. "^Distrib. Species about 12, temp. Europe and Asia, witii 

 » Australian and a S. African renresentative. 





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