Nelumbo 



HYUPHMACEM 



185 



NELUMBO Adans. 



Leaves and . flowers raised out of the water. Leaves not 

 cleft, peltate. Sepals, petals and stamejis 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. — Nelumbo jamaicensis DC. 



A, Leaf X !. * 



B, Flower cut lengthwise x i. 



C, Anther, nat. size. 



D, Carpel detached with the ,ovary. cut 



lengthwise X f. 



E, Receptacle in ripe fruit. X J. 



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 plumule. 



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

 Old World. • 



N. jamaicensis DC Syst. ii. 47 (1821) (Nelumbium) ; Mac/. 

 Jam. i. 18 ik Descr. (ined.). N. lutea Gasp, in Fl. Bras. iv. 

 pt. 2, 133 (in part). Nelumbium luteum Willd. Sp. PI ii. 12.59 

 (1799); Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 12. Nymphsea foliis orbicu- 

 latis &c. Brotone Hist.. Jam. 243. (Fig. 74.)- 



