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393. CYAMUS. Salisbury. (Water Chinquepin.) 
Calix petaloid, 4 or 5-leaved, Petals many. 
Fruit turbinate, with a truncated disk excava- 
ted with numerous cells, each containing a sin- 
gle seed. Seed an ovate nut crowned with the 
persistent style. 
The most magnificent of aquatic plants; leaves alter- 
nate, peltate, orbicular, ample; peduncles extremely long 
and axillary, rising considerably above the water, more or 
less scabrous; flowers very large, yellowish white or ro- 
saceous. Petioles and peduncles giving out on incision 
a milky fluid. 
Species. 1. C. luteus. (Nelumbium luteum. Willd.) 
Petioles and peduncles partly muricated, as well as in C. 
indicus. Flower larger than that produced, by any other 
plant in North America except Magnolia macrophylla. 2. 
pentapetalus. A very doubtful plant as well as the follow- 
ing. 3. reniformis. 
Of this genus there is another species indigenous to the 
waters of India and Persia. 
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