as it were from the top of the petiole, gemma, or little bulbs, 
appear and develope themselves into young plants! The under- 
side of the leaf is pale green, tinged with pale purplish-brown 
and minutely dotted. 2owers smaller than our common White 
Water-Lily, the size of WV. stellata. Calyw of four sepals, pale 
yellow-green, and the numerous white or whitish petals are lan- 
ceolate and very acute, not gradually passing into stamens, though 
the outer stamens are more petaloid than the inner ones. Stigma 
in our plant with eleven incurved obtuse yellow rays. W. J. H. 
Curt. This Water-Lily, being a native of Western Africa, 
requires to be grown in a warm stove, and will thrive if treated 
in the way mentioned for Nymphaea ampla, at Tab. 4469. This 
species is remarkable from the circumstance of its producing 
a viviparous bud at the sinus of the leaf on the upper surface, 
which bud ultimately becomes a separate plant. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Outer stamen. 2. Pistil :—magnified, 
"Sea foie 
