P L A T E CXCVII.
N Y M P H Y E A C C E R U L E A.
Blue Water-Lily.
CLASS XIII. ORDER I.
P OLYA NDR IA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointal.
C A L Y X . Perianthium infernm, tctraphyllum,
magnum, tup ra coloratum, perfiflens.
C O R O L L A . Pétala numeróla (quindecem faspe,)
germinis lateri iníidentia, ferie plus quam
fimplici.
S t a m i n a . Filamenta numero fa (feptuaginta
fa,*pe,) plana, curva, obtufa, brevia. Antheras
oblonga-, filameiitornm margini adnata;.
P I S T I L L V M . Germen ovatnm, magnum. Stylus
nullus. Stigma orbiculatum, planum, peltato
feflile, radiis notatum, margine crcnatum,
perfiflens.
P E B I C A R P I U M . Bacca dura, ovata, carnofa, rudis,
ooUo angultata ápice corónala, multilocularis
(decern ad quindecem loculis,)
pulpa plena.
S E M I N A plurima, fubrotunda.
EMPALBMF.NT. Cup beneath, four leaved, large,
coloured above, permanent.
BLOSSOM. Petals numerous (often fifteen,)
placed on the fide of the feed-bud, in more
than one row.
C H I V E S . Threads numerous (often feventy,)
flat, curved, blunt, Ihort. Tips oblong,
fixed to the margin of the threads.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud egg-lliaped, large. Shaft,
none. Summit round, flat, central, fitting,
marked in rays, fcollopcd at the edge, remaining.
SEED-VESSEL. Berry hard, cgg-fliaped, flefhy,
rough, narrowed at the neck, crowned at
the top, many-celled (from ten to fifteen
cells,) full of pulp.
SEEDS many, roundifh.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
, - r • u VvmnhEea with between heart-lliaped and round
N y m p h s * foliis cordato-orbienlans, fen.oribus ^"g^ he o l d o n e s f c o U o p e d , lobes iharp,
y
Cr e n a t i s , l o b i , a c u t i s i m b r i c a t . s acuminata; £ET and tapered; petals fharp, lancepetalis
acutis, lanceclatis, ca:ruleis. ;i &a£d, and blue.
R E F E R E N C E TO T H E P L A T E.
A M O N G S T aquatic or water plants, the Nympha.as are undoubtedly the molt deferable in cullivation;
although, we fliould agree to the exclufion of N . Nelumbo, fire, now forming a dillinci genus in the
8p. Plant, o f Willdenow; taken from I'lUri's Ed. of Juflicn's Gen. Plant, clafled from the natural
characters, under the tiile of Nelumbium's. This plant may be kept in I lie green-houfe, or hot-houfc,
in a large tub filled with water and a fmall portion of mud at the bottom. It propagates by the
root, and the flowers, which are extremely fragrant, zre produced in Augull, in which month, this
year, our drawing was made, from a large plant in the Hibbertian collection; but, from an omiflion
in the figure, w e were obliged to finiih the plate from a plant, in the collection of J . Vere. Efq. Kenfington
Gore, Hill in flower, the beginning of October. The leaves of this fpecies are moll beautifully
fcolloped, and near a foot in diameter; but the indent it ion* are fearcely to be perceived in the younger;
one of which, as we could not introduce the larger, is fhewn on the plate of the natural fize.
It is a native of the Cape o f Good Hope, and was introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr.
F. Maflbn, about the year I^G?.