XV. NYMPH^ACE^. 



I. NELUMBO SERIES. 



Nelumbtf (figs. 74-81) has regular hermaphrodite flowers. The 

 lower part of the receptacle forms a depressed cone, bearing the 



Nelumbo nucifera. 



Fia. 74. 

 Habit (^). 



perianth and androceum. The former is like that of our Water- 



1 T., Inst., 261. — Adans., Tarn, des PL, ii. Gen., 68.— Lamk., Bid., iv. 453 ; Suppl., iv. 



76>— G^etn., Frvct., i. 73, t. 19.— Mieb., in 78; III., t. 463.— Tuep., in Ann. Hits., vii.210, 



Ann. Mus., xiii. 465, t. 34; xvi. 448, t. 19. — t. 11.— Poit., in Ann. Mus., xiii. 359, t. 29. — 



H. Bn., in Adansonia,x. i. t. 3. — Nelumbium J ., Cokeea, in Ann. Mas., xiv. 74, t. 8. — Eich., in 



