PLATE XXXVIII. 



1. NELUMBIUM SPECIOSUM. 



CHINESE WATER-LILY. 



See NYMPHCEA. 



2. NOLANA PROSTRATA. 



TRAILING NOLANA. 



THIS genus contains a plant of the herbaceous trailing annual 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria Monogynia, and 

 ranks in the natural order of Aspcrifotia, or Lutid#. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one-leafed peiianthium> 

 turbinate at the base, five-parted, five-cornered: segments cordate, 

 acute, permanent: the corolla is one-petalled, bell-shaped, plaited, 

 spreading, somewhat five-lobed, twice as large as the calyx : the 

 stamina have five awl-shaped filaments, erect, equal, shorter than 

 the corolla : anthers sagittate : the pistillum is as five roundish 

 germs: style among the germs, cylindric, straight, the length of the 

 stamens: stigma capitate: the pericarpium properly none: (drupes 

 five, decumbent, three or five-celled:) the seeds five, with a succu- 

 lent rind, roundish, with the inner base naked, immersed in the 

 receptacle, two-celled and four-celled (solitary). 



The species is N. prostrata, Trailing Nolana. 



It has an annual root, simple, filiform, often three feet long, 

 blackish: the stem a foot long, herbaceous, prostrate, roundish, very 

 smooth, with while dots scattered over it the branches alternate, 

 the lower ones the length of the stalk: the leaves alternate, two to- 



