ORDER 9.—THE WATER LILIES, 155 
NELUM’BIUM. Nelumbo. 
The character of the genus the same as that of the order. 
N. luteum. Yellow Nelumbo. A magnificent flowering plant, frequent in the stag- 
nant waters of the South and West, rare in N. Y. and Conn. The leaves are 
1-2f. broad, round, entire, peltate in the centre, which is concave, and elevated 
above the water more or less on the long petioles, Flowers several times 
larger than the White Water Lily, but without fragrance. Petals concave, of 
a brilliant white at edge, becoming yellow towards the base. Nuts (called 
Water-beans) about as large as acorns, eatable. June, July. 
Orver IX.—NYMPH#ACEH. The Water Lilies. 
Herbs aquatic, with roundish leaves from a prostrate rhizoma; 
Jlowers large and showy, the sepals, petals, and stamens gradually passing 
into each other, imbricated and arranged in many rows; 
sepals few, colored inside, persistent ; stigmas radiating and crowning the 
ovary, which in fruit becomes a capsule compound and 5-celled ; 
seeds minute, numerous, with the embryo at the end of the albumen. 
Analysis of the Genera. 
Petals large as the sepals, white, red, 
or blue. Nympaz’a. 1 
Petals smaller than the sepals, stamen- 
like, yellow. Frog Lily, Nuruar. 
Fig. 881. Nymphza odorata: a, the leaf; ¢, 
the flower; 6, the bud; d, e. fg, stamens grad- 
ually changing into petals; A, a seed cut open, 
showing the embryo ina little sac. Fig. 383, 
the many-rayed stigma ; 384, cross-section of the 
many-celled ovary. 
