CYAMUS LUTEUS.
SACRED BEAN OF INDIA. EGYPTIAN-BEAN. WATER CHINQUAPIN.
Polyaridria Polyginia, Linn. Hydrocharides, Juss. Nymphyxa, Salisbury.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix petaloid, 4 or 5-leaved. Petals many. Fruit turbinate, with a truncated disk
excavated with numerous cells, each containing a single seed. Seed an ovate
nut, crowned with the persistent style.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Leaves peltate, orbiculate, very entire ; corolla polypetalous ; anthers linear above.
Salisbury. Peduncles and petioles muricate. Barton. Prod. FI. Ph. p. 59.
SYNONYMS.
C yamus flavicomus, Salisbury.
C. nelumbo, Smith, Exot. Bot.
N elumbium speciosum, Willd. and Ait.
N. luteum, Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 1259.
N. luteum, Mich.
N ymphjEA nelumbo, /3. L. Sp. pi.
N elumbo Indica, Persoon.
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