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muricate. Plotters large. Petals of a pale yellow colour. Pericarp 
woody, 3 — -4 inches in diameter, with a truncated disk, perforated with 
15 or 20 cells, each containing an oval nut, about the size of an acorn. 
This plant seems capable of growing in deeper water than either the 
Nymphsea or the Nuphar. Its leaves appear late in the spring, and its 
flowers do not expand until mid-summer. The upper surface of the leaves 
possess in a greater degree, than the leaves of any other plant with which 
I am acquainted, the power of repelling water. 
2 . Pentapetalus. 
C. foliis peltatis or-i 
biculatis integerrimis; 
calyce pentaphyllo; 
corolla pentapetala. — 
Wait. 
Cyamus pentapetalus Pursh 2. p. 389. 
Nelumbium pentapetalum. Sp. pi. 2. p. 1259* 
Nymphsea pentapetala. Walt. p. 155. 
This species and the succeeding, still rest on the authority of Walter, 
No botanist, has recently seen them. They should probably be sought 
for in the lagoons, along the Santee-river. 
3. Reniformis. 
C. foliis reniformi- [ Leaves reniform'; 
bus, corolla polypeta- corolla polypetalous. 
la. W alt. | 
Cyamus reniformis. Pursh. 2 p. 398. 
Nelumbium reniforme Sp. pi. 2. p. 1260, 
Nymphsea reniformis. Walt, p. 155 
Leaves peltate, or. 
bicular, entire, calyx 
5-leaved •, corolla 5- 
petalled, 
