646 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nelumbium. 
ed. Stigma simple. Follicles three, polished, size of a 
field bean. Seeds several, generally from three to five, 
round, smooth, enveloped in a large quantity of orange~ 
coloured wool, growing from the eye of the seed. 
3. T. Euryandra. Willd. 2, 1242. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves elliptic, scabrous, lineate, 
with the margins a little waved. Panicles terminal, large 
and ramous. Flowers trigynous. Calyx and corol of about 
seven leaflets and petals. Germs very hairy. 
A native of the Moluccas. 
POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
NIGELLA. Schreb. gen. n. 935. 
Gey. Cuar. Calyx none. Corol five-petalled. Nec- - 
taries within the corol. Capsules five, connected. 
N. indica. R. 
Annual. Petals entire. Germs five, length of the sta- 
mina. Leaves decompound. Exterior lip of the necta- 
ries ovate, and deeply two-cleft, interior entire and acute. 
~ Beng. and Hind. Kalla-jeera. 
A native of Hindoostan. It appears, flowers and rip- 
ens its seed during the ws Are Season, Beacon “et esta N. 
arvensis. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
NELUMBI UM.* Tas: 
Gen: Cuar. Calyx none. Corol inferior, many-pe- 
talled. Germs many, distinctly immersed in the turbi- 
* Dr. Carey considers this name to be derived from two Sung- 
skrit words. viz. Neel, blue; and Umboja, generated in water. Al- 
though we have not yet found a blue Nelumbium in these — 
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