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the ripe fruit of Victoria lies at the bottom of a regularly 

 truncated cup, ^vhich stands high above the water, while 

 the blossom of Euryale sinks into the water after flowering, 

 and the fruit when ripe is invested with the irregular decayed 

 remains of the calyx and corolla. 



In drawing up the following account, I have still been 

 obliged to take my description of the leaves from Mr. 

 Schomburgk's papers, that of the fructification is derived 

 from the specimens already referred to. 



VICTORIA. 



Calyx campanulatus limbo 4-partito deciduo. Petala indefinita, fauce calycis in- 

 serta, exteriorapatentissinia, interiora incurva mult6 minora- Stamina plurlma 

 petaloidea, fauce calycis inserta ; exteriora fertilia libera, interiora sterih'a 

 cornuta stigmatibus a tergo adnata. Ovarium inferum multiloculare; locuHs 

 polyspermis: ovulis parietalibus ; stylis in campanulam sulcatam tubum 

 calycis vestientem connatis; stigmatibus maximis reniformibus, carnosis. 

 Fructus campanulatus, truncatus, carnosus, intra basin capsulam gerens 

 medio longe rostratam^ polyspermam. 



Species unica. Victoria Regia, Ltndl. memoir^ Sfc, cum zc, 



Nympbsea Victoria, Schomburgk in litteris, 

 ? Euryale amazonica, P'uppig reise in Chile^^c. voL 2./?- 432. 



Habitat in fluvio Berbice Guianae Britannicae, ubi inventa est eel. R. H. Schom- 

 burgk. 



Planta natans Nymphaese aspectu. Folia plantarum omnium maxima, Palmis 

 exceptis, saepe diametro sexpedali, orbicularia, hinc emarginata, supra atro- 

 viridia, plana, margine elevato, subtus sanguinea, costis maximis a centro 

 radiantibus inter se venis parallelis transversis culligatis, cum petiolo spi- 

 nosis. Flores speciosissimi, fragrantes, quindecim uncias lati, pedunculis 

 spinosis super aquam elevati. Calyx sanguineus, coriaceus, campanulatus ; 

 tubo et pedunculo aculeis rigidis horridis, limbo 4-partito, deciduo, laciniis 

 dorso spinulosis, ovato-triangularibus, carnosis, obtusis, 6 poUices longls. 

 Petala indefinita, oblonga, coriacea, fauce calycis inserta, exteriora patentis- 

 sima ; interiora minora, incurva, acuminata, mucronata, sensim in stamina 

 abeuntia ; petala exteriora Candida, post boras quasdam rubescentia, inte- 

 riora sanguinea. Stamina sanguinea, lineari-triangularia, camosa, incurva; 

 fertilia libera seriebus sex fauce calycis intra petala inserta: anthera; 

 loculis 2, linearibus, parallelis, immersis; sterilia cornuta, camosa, incurva, 

 biseriata, basi subtus sulcata, dorso stigmato^um adnata. Ovarium calycis 

 tubo omnino adnatum ; stylis in campanulam tubum vestientem circa axin 

 centralem elevatum conicura connatis ; loculis tot quot stigmata polysper- 



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mis ; ovulis plurimis reti dissepimentorum spongiosorum succulentorum 

 affixis cuique loculo circlter 28 ; stigmatibus 36, carnosis, compressis, reni- 

 formibus, verticalibus a tergo staminibus sterilibus adnatls. Fructus cyathi- 

 formis, truncatus, carnosus, viridis, aculeatus, margine piano truncato, intra 

 basin capsulam gerens, medio long^ rostratam polyspermam. 



Since the foregoing remarks were put in type, I learn 

 from the last number of the Comptes rendus, that a copy of 



