Ord. NELUMBIACE^E. 



Herbae aquaticse insignes, Nymphaeoideas ; at ovariis intra 

 alveolos tori obconici segregatis, uniovulatis, fructu nucifor- 

 mibus; embryone exalbuminoso, plumula maxime evoluta. 



Plate 40, 41. 

 NELUMBIUM, Juss. 



Character ut ordiais monotypici. 



Nelumbicm, Juss. Gen. p. 68. Turp. in Ann- Mus. 7. p. 210. 1. 11. Rich. 



Ibid. 17. p. 249. t. 9. DC. Syst. 2. p. 43. Wight, 111. Ind. Bot. 



t. 9. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3753. Endl. Gen. 5026. 

 Nelumbo, Tourn. Inst. 261. Adans. Fam. 2. p. 76. Ga?rtn. Fr. t. 19. 

 Cyahds, Salisb. -in Ann. Bot. 2. p. 75. Smith, Exot. Bot. 1. p. 59. t. 31, 



32. Barton, Fl. N. Am. t 63. 



Nelumbo. Sacred Bean. Water Chiuquepiu. 



Calyx and corolla confounded, consisting of numerous 

 sepals (the exterior) and petals imbricated in 5 or 6 series 

 in aestivation, oblong or oval, the exterior shorter and less 

 colored, early deciduous. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous 

 in several series below the enlarged torus, very deciduous : 

 filaments short and slender : anthers linear, elongated, in- 

 trorsely adnate to the connective, which is prolonged at the 

 apex into a conspicuous appendage ; the cells contiguous, 

 opening longitudinally. Torus much enlarged above the 

 stamens, obconical. Ovaries numerous (12 to 25), separate- 

 ly immersed in hollows of the flat upper surface of the dilat- 

 ed torus, ovoid, one-celled, one-ovuled (1-2-ovuled, Endl.), 

 marked with a dorsal gibbosity: style a short and thick 

 neck : stigma peltate, umbilicate. Ovule suspended from 

 the summit of the cell, anatropous ; the raphe dorsal. 



