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which are acrimonious when fresh ; but are 
easily deprived of their dangerous juice by 
washings, as those of the Jatropha , and of 
which the Indians are very fond. The petiols 
are cylindrical with a furrow inside, they rise 
from six to nine feet, are thick in proportion, 
and grow thicker towards the top. The leaves 
reach over six feet in circumference, and two feet 
in diameter, they are shining inside, nearly fring¬ 
ed on the edge by the down of the outside, which 
is longer than the edge, the nerves are radiated 
and ramified. Scape cylindrical, covered with 
acute and rough tubercles, like the petiols of the 
leaves, flowers yellow, larger than those of the 
Nelumbium luteum* The fruit contains about 
20 nuts good to eat; it is obconical, flat above 
with a raised margin., and above three inches ija 
diameter. 
