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Nelumbium Speciosum. Sacred Bean 

 of India, 



POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic Characler. 



Cat. 4 feu 5-phyllus. Cor. polypetala. Nuces t-fpermse, ftylo 

 perfiftente coronatae, receptaculo truncato immerfae. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



NELUMBIUM fpeciofum ; foliis peltatis, orbiculatis integer- 

 rimis, pedunculis petiolifque muricatis, co- 

 rolla polypetala. Willd. Sp. PL v. 2. p. 1258. 



NELUMBO nucifera. Gatrt. Frucl. 1. p. 73. /. 17./. 2. 



NYMPHvEA Nelumbo ; Sp. PL 730. Reich. 2. p. 579. 

 Lercbc in Nov. Aft. Nat. Cur. v. 5. app. 

 p. 191. Thanh, yap. 223. Lour. Cochinch. 

 340. Pluk. Aim. 267. /%/. /. 322. /. 1. 



CYAMUS Nelumbo. Smith Exot. Bot. /. 31 & 32. 



CYAMUS myfticus. Salijb. in Ann. of Botany t v. 2. p. 73. 



TARATTI. Rumph. Amb. 6. p. 168. /. 73. 



TAMARA. Rheede Malab. v. n. p. 59. /. 30. 



REN. Kcempf. Am<en. Exot. 880. 



In the courfe of our botanical purfuits, we have long been 

 in the habit of looking up to the learned Prefident of the 

 Linnean Society, and have ever been happy to fhelter our- 

 felves under his authority ; it is not without reluctance there- 

 fore, that, in this inftance, we think ourfelves obliged to 

 forfake his banners, and adhere to thofe principles by which 

 *e have been hitherto governed, in our choice of names. 



Lin n^ us 



