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^Y.MPH^ACE^ 



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NELUMBO Adans. 



Leaves and flowers raised out of the water. Leaves not 

 cleft, peltate. Sepals, petals and stamens inserted at the base 

 of the receptacle. Connective of anthers produced into a blunt 

 appendage. Carpels enclosed singly in pits scattered irregularly 

 on the flat top of the obconical fleshy receptacle. Ovules 1 or 2 

 in the carpels, pendulous from the apex. Nuts projecting from 



Fig. 74. Nelumho jamaicensis DC. 



A, Leaf X \. 



B, Flower cut lengthwise x i. 



C, Anther, nat. size. 



D, Carpel detached with the ovary cut 



lengthwise x :. 



E, Eeceptacle in ripe fruit, x I. 



F, Fruit cut lengthwise, nat. size ; p, 



cotyledon ; e, plumule. 

 (A, B, C, E after Bull. Bot. Dep. Jamaica.) 



the pits in the receptacle. Seeds without perisperm and endo- 

 sperm ; cotyledons enclosing a well developed plumide. 



Species 3, one N. American, another Jamaican, and the third 

 Old World. 



N. jamaicensis DC. Syst. li. 47 (1821) (Xelumbium) : Mac/. 

 Jam. i 18 ct Descr. (ined.). N. lutea Casp. in FI. Bras. iv. 

 pt 2, 133 (in part). Nelumbium luteum Wilhl Sj). PI. li. 1259 

 (1799); Grisch. FI. Br. W. Inch 12. Xymphi^a foliis orbicu- 

 latis t^'c. Browne Hist. Jam. 243. (Fig. 74.) 



