Tab. 6917. 

 NYMPHJEA flava. 



Native of Florida. 



Nat. Ord. !Nysipbleace.s:. — Tribe Nymph;e.e. 

 Genus Nymph.ea, Linn; {Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. i. p. 46.) 



NYMPHjEA^/Zava; rbizomate oblongo v. cylindraceo, foliis ellipticis late oblongis 

 rotundatisve subtus rubris marginibus integerrimis v. subrepandis lobis subacutis 

 obtusisve, floribus flavis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis petalis concoloribus intimis 

 sensim minoribus, filamentis exterioribus medio dilatatis antheris obtusis 

 multo longioribus, intirnis linearibus brevioribus, stigmatis radiis 8 brevibus 

 incurvis obtusis inappendiculatis. 



N. flava, Leitner in Chapman Flora of the Southern United States Suppl. 

 p. 604 ; W. Watson in " The Garden" vol. xxvii. (1885), p. 439 and 599. 



This is a very rare plant, having been comparatively 

 recently made known to Botanists by the researches of Dr. 

 Leitner in Florida, though it was much earlier recognized 

 by a Naturalist; for, according to Chapman's "Flora," it 

 is figured in Andubon's great work on the Ornithology 

 of the United States, published upwards of half a century 

 ago. As a species it is quite unlike any other, though 

 belonging to the northern section Gastalia, and not very 

 far removed from the American N. odoraia, from -\v hich the 

 colour of the flowers at once distinguishes it. 



N. flava is a very elegant plant ; it was flowered in the 

 Water Lily House of the Royal Gardens in July of this 

 year. The Kew plants were received from Prof. Sargent, 

 of Brooklin, Boston, in 1877, and again in 1880 from Mr. 

 Sturtevant. The plant flowered for the first time in the 

 Water Lily House at Kew in July, 1882. Mr. Watson, in 

 his excellent remarks on this species, notes especially the 

 form of the elongated rootstock, which becomes covered 

 with scale-like tubercles, and forms successive apical crowns 

 of foliage and flowers subtended by a ring of roots, whilst 

 the lateral tubercles develop stolons from which the plant 

 is reproduced. Mr. Watson further remarks that it has 

 jax. 1st, 1887. 



