30" 
(3) B. Wanricntana. (Dez.) 
Ident. Dec. prod, I. p. 107.—Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind.. fT. 
p. 225.—Don. prod. 204. 
Engrav. Wall. Pl). As. Rar. TIL t. 243.—Paxt. fl. Gard. I. f. 
58. 
Srec. Cuar. Spines slender 3—5-cleft: branches angled or deep- 
ly furrowed: leaves fascicled, broadly-orbicular or oblong-elliptic 
or lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, variously and coarsely ser- 
rated with spines or sometimes quite entire, shining on both sides: 
pedicels many aggregated, short: berries small, elliptic-oblong, 
scarcely pulpy, terminated by the short style and small stigma. 
Khasia hills, flowering in April and May. 
ORDER VII. NYMPHZACEZ. 
Aquatic herbs, with peltate or cordate leaves: sepals 4-5: 
petals and stamens numerous, arranged in several rows: an- 
thers adnate, opening lengthwise: torus large, bearing numerous 
ovaries and carpels, or enclosing them: carpels 1-2, or many- 
seeded. 
GENUS I. NELUMBIUM. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Nelumbo, the Singhalese name of the plant. 
Gen. Cuar. Torus containing within itself the separate ova- 
ries; each of the latter have a simple style and stigma: nuts loose 
in the cavities of the torus, 1~2-seeded. 
(1) N. speciosum. (Willd. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I.-p. 16.—Dec. prod. I. p. 113.—Roxb. 
fl. Ind. Il. p. 647. 
Syn. Nelumbo nucifera, Gaertn.—Nymphxa Nelumbo, Linn. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. XI. t. 30, 31.—Rumph. Amb, VI. t. 73. 
—Wight’s Il. I. t. 9.—Bot. Mag. t, 903. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves orbicular, 1-2 feet in diameter, peltate, 
paler beneath, margins slightly waved: anthers drawn out beyond 
the cells into a club-shaped appendage: fruit turbinate, flattened 
