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16 NYMPH HACER. NELUMBIUM. 
52. (1) B. tinetoria (Lesch.:) spines deeply divided into three sharp rigid 
segments: leaves simple, oboval, quite entire, or with distant small spiny 
teeth, glaucous with the principal nerves and veins prominent beneath, but 
not above : racemes stalked, longer than the leaves; pedicels slender: petals 
distinctly biglandular: filaments without teeth.—Lesch. mem. mus. 9. p. 306; _ 
DeLess. ic. 2. p. 1. t. 2; Wall.! L. n. 1476; Wight! cat. n. 51.——Neel- 
gherries. 
53. (2) B. Leschenaultii (Wall.:) leaves pinnate; leaflets about six pair, 
ovate, nearly equal in size, slightly cordate at the base, repand with 6-8 
thorny teeth at each side, about 5-nerved at the base ; lower pair of leaflets 
close to the stem: racemes elongated, slender; bracteoles at the base of the 
pedicel oblong, obtuse: petals with two distinct glands; filaments without 
teeth: berry globose, crowned with the evident style and stigma.—Wall.! L. 
n. 1479; Wight! cat. n. 50.—Mahonia Nepaulensis, var., DC. regn. veg. 2. 
p. 713.—Neelgherries, at an elevation of about 8000 feet. 
Perhaps not distinct from B. Nepaulensis, but that species has more lanceo- 
late leaflets which are longest towards the top of the leaf, and the fruit is de- 
scribed and figured as oblong with a sessile stigma. 
ORDER VIL—NYMPH/EACE/E. Sal. 
Sepals 4-5. Petals and stamens numerous in several rows: filaments 
petaloid: anthers adnate, introrse, opening by two longitudinal clefts. 
Torus large, fleshy, elevated, bearing in its substance, or enclosing, nu- 
merous ovaries and carpels.. Carpels 1-2- or many-seeded. Albumen 
of two kinds: a perisperm which is either present or absent; and an 
endosperm, immediately surrounding the embryo.— Aquatic herbs, with 
peltate or cordate leaves. 
I. NELUMBIUM. Juss. ; Lam. ill. t. 458. 
Torus containing in its substance the numerous separate ovaries, which 
have each a simple style and stigma. Nuts inserted, but loose, in the hollows 
of the torus, 1-2-seeded. Perisperm none. Endosperm conspicuous. Em- 
bryo large, with two fleshy cotyledons.—Leaves orbicular, attached by their 
centre. 
54. (1) N. speciosum (Willd.:) corolla polypetalous: i 
Fiet «hee the cells o the waht oe into x obese iN DC. po^ 
I. p. 113; Spr. syst. 2. p. 634; Lam. ill. t. 453; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p.047; 2 
Wall.! L. n. 7259; Wight! cat. n.52.—Nelumbo nucifera, Gertn. J*. 1. 1. 19: 
J. 2.—Nymphsea Nelumbo, Linn.—Pluk, t. 207. f. 5.—— In tanks in Tanjore, 
frequent. 
IL NYMPHJEA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 458; Gertn. fr. t. 19. 
Calyx usually of 4 sepals girding the base of the torus. Petals numerous 
(16-28), attached to the torus. Stamens numerous, inserted with the petals, 
but higher up. Torus bottle-shaped, indehiscent, surrounding ovaries, styles, 
and stigmas. Ovaries attached to the inside of the torus, on the top of which 
are the adnate radiate stigmas. Carpels 16-20, membranaceous. Seeds very 
numerous in each carpel, attached to spongy placentee that form false dissepi- 
ments to the fruit. Endosperm fleshy, and with the enclosed embryo, seated - 
on the inside, at the base, of the farinaceous perisperm: cotyledons foliace- — 
ous.—Leaves cordate, peltate or with the petiole attached to the edge. 
