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G-ENUS VI.— NELUMBO, Tournefort. 



Tonniefort, lust. Rei. Herb., p. 261. Adanson, Famille.s des Plantes, II, p. 16. 

 Gœrt. Poir. Lamarck. Persoon, Synops. PI., II, p. 92. Greoue, I.e. Nymphœa, Liun., in 

 part. Nelumbium, Jiissieu, Gen, PL, p. *76, (1Y90). Benth. & Hook., I, p. 4t. Cymnus, Smith, 

 Exotic Botany, (1804). Salisb. Ann. Bot., I.e., (1805.) Bentham & Hooker recognised 



two species. 



List of Species : — 



1. N. speciosa. | 2. N. Intea. 



1. — N. SPECIOSA. 



Nelumbium speciosum, "Willd., Sp. PL, II, p. 1258. Bot. Mag., t. 903. 



Nymphœa Nelumbo, Linn., Sp. PL 



Cyamm Nelumbo, Smith, Exot. Bot., I, p. 59, t. 31, 32. 



C. viystims, Salisbury, Ann. Bot., II, p. V5. 



Nelumbo Indica, Persoon, I.e. 



India, Ceylon, Java, China, Egypt, &c. 



2.— N. LUTEA, Persoon, I.e., (180V) " Bâillon, Hist. PL III, p. 79, (18*72)." Greene, 

 Torrey Bulletin, Oct., 188t, p. 215. 



Nelumbium luteum, Michaux, Fl. B.-A.,, I, p. oil. Willd., Sp. PL, I.e. Grisebach, El. 

 W. I., p. 12. 



Cyamiis Jlavicomus, Salisbury, Ann. Bot., I.e. 



Nymphœa Nelumho var. ji., Linn., Sp. PL, I.e. 



Jamaica, Carolina, Florida etc., extending north to the southern side of Cape Cod, 

 its most easterly point, and to Lake Ontario in the west. 



Smith remarks, in Ilees's Cyclopœdia, in reference to the name Nelumbo ; " The name 

 given by the natives of Ceylon to the sacred bean of India. Adanson, who first, with 

 unquestionable propriety, separated this plant from Nymphœa, having no objection to barbar- 

 ous names, retained Nelumbo i'or a generic appellation, and he is followed by Gsertner. 

 It is not easy to say why they preferred a very confined and local appellation, for a plant 

 known throughout India by the name of Tamara, by which it is distinguished in the 

 Hortus Malabaricus, and celebrated in Hindoo poetry and mythology. Jussieu intended 

 as an improvement the alteration into Nelumbium. We wish to adhere, as much as possible, 

 to the Linufean rejection of barbarous generic names, and have no desire to establish 

 either Nelumbo or Tamara, greatly preferring Cyamus. It is much to be wished that 

 botanists not totally illiterate and tasteless, would advert a little to the propriety of keep- 

 ing their nomenclature under some regulations of sense and uniformity, which those who 

 read the writings of Linnseus, will find already established, and abundantly supported 

 by reason and convenience." Smith and Salisbury adopted the generic term Cyamus, 

 which was also used by Pursh and Nuttall ; but in Persoou's Synopsis, pars secuuda, 

 published two years later than Salisbury's paper, (1807), the original name of Tournefort 

 was reverted to, and in its original form, Nelumbo ; it had been so retained earlier in 

 Lamarck's Dictionary, Vol. IV, published six years after Jussieu's proposed modification 



Sec. IV, 1888. 16. 



