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P L A T E DHL
N Y M P H ^ A RUBRA.
Hed^/^owered Nymphcea,
C L A S S XIIL ORDER L
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointai
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
BLOSSOM many-petalled. Empalement 4- or 5 - COROLLA polypetala. Calyx 4- seu 5-phylJus.
Bacca multiJoculaiis^ loculis polyspermis. leaved. Berry many-celled^ with many seeds
in each cell.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
N y m p h é a foliis sub-orbic\ilatis, irregulariter
dentatis, glaberrimis : lobis approximatis :
corollis rubris: radice battatis assimilata,
et multiplicante in modum istius vegetabilis.
Nymphsea rubra. Roxh. MSS:
N Y M P H É A with nearly round leaves irregularly
toothed, and very smooth, with the lobes
approximating : blossom red : root resembling
that of a potatoe, and increasing like
that vegetable.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A chive,
1. Seed-bud and pointai.
T H I S fine red aquatic is so nearly aUied to the Nymphaea Lotus, that many consider it as only a va.
nety; but it certainly is specifically distinct in the colour of the flowers, as the term variety can only
be applicable to those lighter or darker shades of colour that may occasionaliy vary by culture or climate.
This Nympha^a is no doubt, like the N . Lotus, considered as a sacred plant; but probably that
species may be more highly estimated, from the emblematical purity of its fine white petals- As four
or five more figures will include every species of this fine section of aquatics at present known we
shall not omit any of them, and intend, in the course of the ensuing summer, to give a fi<rure o / t h a t
most magnificent of aU the species the N. Nelumbo. "
Our figure was made fi-om a plant in the collection of J. Vere, esq. raised in a tub of water placed in
a common hot-bed; where, notwithstanding its circumscribed situation, it flowered for the first time
m this kingdom, under the care of Mr. Anderson the botanic gardener, who informs me that this
spec.es IS capable of great increase from the root, whilst the N, Lotus affords only one solitaiy plant