Tas. 4535. 
NYMPHAEA MICRANTHA. 
Small-flowered proliferous Water-Lily. 
Nat. Ord. NyMpH#ACE®.—PoLyYANDRIA MonoGyYNIa. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4257.) 
Nympnma micrantha ; foliis parvis rotundatis cordiformibus peltatis integerrimis 
petiolatis, petiolis longissimis gracilibus, lobis divaricatis acuminatis subtus 
rubescentibus violaceo-punctatis superne glabris pallide viridibus inter lobos 
sepius bulbiferis, stigmatibus 15 subsessilibus radiatis. Guillem. et Perott. 
NyMpuxa micrantha. Guillem. et Perott. Fl. Seneg. Tent. p. 16. Walp. Repert. 
Bot. v. 1. p. 107. 
The very pretty Water-Lily, here represented, was obligingly 
communicated from the Tropical Aquarium of E. Silvester, Esq., 
the successful cultivator of Mympheacee at North Hall, Chorley, — 
Lancashire, in August 1850. It was received by him from 
Chatsworth, but it appears to have been imported by Lord — 
Derby, from the River Gambia, to Knowsley Gardens. The “ 
long acuminated points of the leaves, and the viviparous axils 
of the lobes, are its most striking character ; and in these two 
important particulars, as well as in some others, this species: 
agrees with a Senegambian one to which I have referred it, viZ., 
the V. micrantha of Guillemin and Perottet. If it does not 
coincide in all points—such as the number of stigmatic rays— 
it must be remembered that aquatic plants are very variable, 
and we must not lay too much stress on differences of that kind. 
It is true the authors describe the flowers as blue, or pale blue, 
but native authentic specimens in my herbarium appear to ~ 
be white. 
Descr. The Petioles and Scapes appear to be both much 
elongated (influenced, probably, by the depth of water in sion 
they have grown), tinged with red, terete, glabrous. Leaves a 
quite glabrous, elliptic, rotundate in outline, partly entire, see 
irregularly toothed, the lower portion cut into two deep, muc 
acuminated, moderately spreading lobes, at the sinus of which, 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1850. 
