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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Nelumbo 



Water Bean. 



Lagoons, near Ferry, Brovme ; McNab ! Macfadyen ! Hartweg ! Dutidas 

 (fide Macfadyen) ; near Lacovia and Ped"ro, St. Elizabeth,/?. K. Tomliiison ! 

 Cornwall, Britton ! 



Rhizome horizontal, cylindrical, 8 mm. br. Leaves to 6 dm. br. when 

 yotuig and flat on water, later raised above water — still larger and concave. 

 Sepals about 2-5 cm. 1. Petals more or less obovate, about 30, outer 

 smaller and calyx-like, inner about 9 cm. 1., and 4 5 cm. br., of a primrose 

 colour. 



Very near thp N. American N. lutea, and possibly not ' specifically 

 distinct. 



Family XXIV. CERATOPHYLLACE^. 



Aquatic submerged herbs with Iqng leafy branches. Leaves 

 whorled, 2-cleft or dichotomously divided, with linear 'divisions, 

 often toothed. Flowers solitary, monoecious, sessile in the axils 



A, Portion of plant x j. 



B, Male flower, magiiifled. 



C, Stamen, niaffnifled. 



D, Female flower cut lengthwise sliowiiijt 



the ovule, magnifled. 



Fiji. "ib.— Ceratophxilhimdeinemim L. 



E, Fruit, magnifled. 



F, Fruit cut lengthwise ; c, cotyledonii ; 



p, plumule. (B-E after K. .Scfiiiniann, 

 F, after Baillon.) 



of the whorls. Perianth with 6-\2 nirrow equal divisions. 

 Male flowers; stamena 10-20; anthers almost sessile, slightly 

 exceeding the perianth ; cells 2, extrorse ; connective produced 

 into a thick coloured appendage generally 2- or 3-toothed. 

 Female flowers: ovary 1, sessile, ovoid, 1 -celled; style long, 

 stigmatose ; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit an indehiscent nut. 



