Tas. 6736. 
NYMPH A axa var. rubra. 
Native of Sweden. 
Nat. Ord. Nympozacex.—Tribe NymMPHEz. 
Genus Nympuma, Linn; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol.i. p. 46.) 
NympuZa alba, Linn. Sp. Pl. n. 729; DC. Prodr. vol. iv p- 115; Cuspary in 
App. Ind. Hort. Berol. 1855, 
Var. spherocarpa-rubra ; floribus roseis, fructu subgloboso. 
N. alba (spherocarpa) rubra, Caspary in Bot. Zeit. 1871, p. 874; Lonnroth in 
_ Bot. Not. 1856, p. 124; Herb. Norm. vol. xvi. p. 32; Liebm. et Lange in 
#1. Dan. Suppl. fase. iii. p. 7, t. 141. 
N. alba var. rosea, Masters in Gard. Chron. 1878. 
N. spheerocarpa var. rubra, Duchartre in Journ. Soc. Hort. 1877, p. 817. 
‘N. Caspary, Carriere Rev. Hortic. 1879, p. 230, cum ic. pict. 
At Plate 6708 was figured and described the rose-coloured 
variety of the American White Water Lily (N. odorata, 
var. minor, floribus roseis), which in point of both size 
and brilliancy of colour falls far behind the subject of 
the present plate, which has of late attracted more 
attention by far amongst horticulturists, due to its larger 
size and the more vivid colour of its flowers. Hitherto 
_ only one native locality is known for it, a Lake Fagertarn 
in the parish of Hammar, in Nerika (in the N.W. of Oster- 
_ Gothland, Sweden), where it was discovered in 1856 by 
_ B.E. Kjelmark. It was first published by Dr. Caspary, 
_ and referred to the variety spherocarpa of N. alba, dis- 
_ tinguished by the globose form of the fruit, and it has been 
» figured in the “ Flora Danica” (cited above), where however 
_ the leaves are represented as very small, only three to four 
_ inches in diameter, and with acute or subacute basal lobes ; 
whilst those of the Kew plants are a foot in diameter. 
_ They are, however, small in the'figure given by Carriere in 
_ the “Revue Horticole,” where the colour of the flower is 
well represented. In this latter respect, however, there 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1884. 
