Tas. 4469. 
NYMPHAEA ampta. 
Broad-leaved Water-Lily. 
Nat. Ord. NympH®AacEa—PoLyaNnpRIA MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4257.) 
Nympy#a ampla; foliis cordato-rotundatis peltatis grosse dentatis glaberrimis 
reticulatis maculatis superne minute tuberculatis subtus coloratis nervis 
prominentibus sinu profunde angustissimo, sepalis lineato-maculatis, pe- 
talis albis, antheris exappendiculatis exterioribus longissimis, stigmate con- 
. cavo sub- 26-radiato. 
Nympu@a ampla. De Cand. Syst. 0.2. p. 54. Prodr.v.1.p.115. M‘Fad. dn 
Jam. p.19. 
CasTaxia ampla. Salisb. Ann. Bot. v. 2. p. 73. 
Nympuma Rudgeana. Meyer, Fl. Prim. Esseq. p. 198. 
Nympn#a Lotus. Lunan, Jam. p. 271. 
Nympna Indica flore candido, &e. Sloane, Jam. v. 1. p. 252. 
Nympua foliis amplioribus, &c. Browne, Jam. p. 243. 
At p. 3. of the Companion to the Bot. Mag. vol. 74. 1s given 
an account of the re-discovery of the long lost Nelumbium 
Jamaicense. Together with tubers of that noble plant, those 
of the present little known but very handsome species of 
Water-Lily were sent to us by our valued friend Dr. M‘Fadyen. 
We shared them with Mr. Silvester, of North Hall, Chorley, Lan- 
cashire, a most successful cultivator of Nymphaacee, and he had 
the good fortune to flower the plant in May 1849. From the 
specimen sent by that gentleman our figure is taken. Its nearest 
ally is the W. versicolor (Bot. Mag. t. 1189), whose flowers vary 
to white; but the leaves in this are more deeply toothed, almost 
lobed, the colour on the underside is much deeper, the young 
leaves are wholly and deep red, there are copious linear dark 
spots on the foliage and sepals, and the tubers are very different. 
Descr. Zubers about the size of a chestnut, rounded, but 
* We are rejoiced to know that Dr. M‘Fadyen is engaged in continuing his 
‘Flora of Jamaica,’ 
OCTOBER Isr, 1849. _ * 
