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Is THE NELUMBIUM AN 
EGYPTIAN PLANT? 
F the Dawn Ae da v . 
Chaldea, = Pro 
Professor Say 
l'Egypte, Hist, Nat., pl. 61. 
Professor Maspero says: — Two 
pecies of Lotus which grew in the Nile, the 
white and the blue, have se ete similar 
“hese are evidently 
Nymphwas. th 
Nymphwa. The Professor, quoting from 
Herodotus, ii., 92, goes on to say, the fruit of 
the pink Lotus “ grows on a different stalk from 
that of tae flower (!), and springs directly from 
form,” 
Prof take a more prossio 
Aale . the rove of & eig — 
part has twenty or thirty cavities, “ each con- 
big as an Olive stone, and 
or dried.” Besides j 
as 
the Lotus, nebo 
a Nelumbium. An ays, 
„This is what the ancients called the Bean of 
Egypt.“ With regard to this Bean, he refers 
Diodorus Siculus, i, 10,34; Theophrastus, Hist. 
Pl. iv., 105 and Strabo, xvii., 799, 
It is curious that Herodotas should have 
noted that the ripe fruit“ grows on ‘a different 
stalk from that of the flower,” and should have 
overlooked the fact that the same thing though 
much smaller, occupied the centre of the flower. 
In spite of this error, he was undoubtedly 
describing a Nelumbium. 
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, in her Pharaohs, 
‘ellahs, and Explorers, says, “ Of the three varie- 
ties [of Lotus] which ee, enen in the 
of whi 
time 
rose Lotus, only the ae Net 0 
has ed.” 
„ O. Nihol 
Nymphæa! On the other hand, Mr. G. Nichol- 
ymphæa ee e i 
genus (Nelumbium) comprises only a couple of 
` of which one is American, the ot 
Asiatico or Australian.“ Bat he does 
not mention that the Nelumbium is, or ever 
has been, an Egyptian plant. In “pst 
N. p however, he calls it Egyptian 
Bean of Pythagores. a 
Peik ee cine r bg Nicholson 
gives two as . Lotus 
