Tab. 4275 - 4278 . 
VICTORIA REGIA. 
Victoria Water-Lily. 
Nat. Ord. NyMPHjEACEiE. § Eueyale.e.—Polyandria Polygynia. 
Gen Char. Victoria, Lindl. Calycis tubus subglobosus, ovario adhserens, 
ad oram in torum expansus, limbo 4-partito deciduo colorato. PetaJa numerosa, 
fauci sen toro calycis inserta; exteriora patentissima, calycem superantia, inte- 
riora sensim angustiora acuminata rigida staminiformia ; omnia basi in annulum 
V. torum connata. Stamina plurima, subdupbci serie inserta, fertilia ; filamenta 
subulata petaloidea, sed rigida firma basi monadelpba, demum erecta: antherce 
introrsae, infra apicem insertae, Uneari-elongatae, adnatae. Pilamenta interiora 
subbiserialia sterdia, basi monadelpba. Ovarium inferum globosum, vertice con- 
cavo-campanulatum radiatum centro rostratum, multiloculare, loculis uniseriatim 
regulariter in circulum dispositis, pluriovulatis, ovulis parietalibus, funiculis reti- 
culatis affixis: stylu nuUis (in campanulam sulcatam tubuin calycis vestientem 
connatis, Lindl.')-, stigmatibus maximis tot quot loculis, ad marginem verticis 
campanulati quasi articulatim insertis, lato-lanceolatis compressis camosis erectis, 
medium versus ad angulum inflexis deciduis dorso stigmatosis. Fructus bacca- 
tus globoso-campanulatus v. cyathiformis, truncatus, supr^ campanulatus, intus 
rostratus, plurilocularis, loculis polyspermis. Semina ovali-^obosa, nucamentacea. 
Herba ingens, aquatica, Jluvios placidos Cisandvws AinericcE australis habitans. 
Eadix perennis ? foHis gigayiteis, natantibus, orbiculatis, ,peltatis, planis, margine 
ubique elevatis, radiatim atque reticidatim nervosisy ne^is subtus valde elevatis; 
floribus maximis speciosis albo-roseis, pedunculis longe extantibus ; petiolis, peduU' 
culis, ovariis, nervisque subtus insigniter aculeatis. 
Victoria regia. (Tab. nostr. 4275-4278.) 
Victoria regia, Lindl. Monogr. Viet. 1837, itied. cuniic. Pot. Reg. Misc. 1838. 
p. 9. P'Orbigny, in Ann. des Sc. Nat. v. 13. p. 57. Walp. Report. 1. p. 106, 
Schomburgk, in Views in the interior of Guiana, p. fmntisplece, 
Victoria Regina, Gray in Mag. of Zool. and Pot. v. 2. 1838. p. 440. 
Nymph^a Victoria, Schomburgk in litt. 
Euryale Amazonica, Poepp. in Froriep, Notizen, 35. p. 9. Reise, v. 2. p. 432. 
Victoria Cruziana, P'Orbigny, 1. c.p.h'l (“ folds utrinque concoloribus, petalis 
cunctis concoloribus roseis,”) 
It has always been our endeavour to commence a New Year 
in this Magazine with some eminently rare or beautiful plant; 
but never had we the good fortune on any occasion to devote a 
Number to a production of such pre-eminent beauty, rarity, and 
we may add celebrity, as that now presented to our Subscribers; 
worthy, as we have no doubt they will agree with us in thinking, 
JANUARY 1st, 1846. B 
