Tas. 4823. 
NYMPHAAA Amazonvum. 
Amazon Water-Lily. 
Nat. Ord. NyMpH#ACEEZ.—PoOLYANDRIA MoNnoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4257.) - 
Nyuenwa blanda; glaberrima, foliis suborbiculato-cordatis integris vel magis 
minusve sinuato-dentatis lobis obtusis subincumbentibus petiolis infra fo- 
lium annulo villoso instructis, filamentis exterioribus subpetaloideis omnibus 
fertilibus, antheris exappendiculatis, sepalis petalisque eequilongis obtusis, 
stigmatis processubus (tot quot radii) longissimis teretibus clavatis erecto- 
incurvis. 
Nympnaea Amazonum. Mart. et Zuccar. Abhandl. der Math.-Phys. Classe der 
Bayersch. Akad. v.1. p.363. Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst.v.1.p.107. Lehm 
iiber die Gattung Nymphéer, n. 48. Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me série, 
tom. 19. p. 48. 
Nympnma Lotus. Lunan, Jam. v. 2. p. 271. 
Nympuaa blanda? Macfad. Fl. Jam. p. 19. 
Nympuma fetida. Garda. MSS. in Herb. Braz. n. 2477. 
ene et 
A very pretty night-flowering species of Water-Lily, which 
has been sent by W. T. March, Esq., of Spanish Town, Jamaica, 
to Mr. Moore, of the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, Dublin, under 
the name of WV. nocturna. It was not surprising that that gen- 
tleman should consider it to be a new species, seeing that it 
possessed so remarkable a structure, as seén in the large club- 
shaped processes of the stigma, and which till lately seem to 
have been altogether unnoticed,* or most imperfectly described. 
I‘at once saw that the specimens obligingly sent by Mr. Moore 
corresponded with Guiana ones in my Herbarium, which I had 
with some doubt referred to WV. dlanda, Meyer, FI. Essequeb., a 
species of the same locality, but miserably described,—for he 
* Lunan, in his very imperfect ‘ Hortus Jamaicensis,’ describes his NV. : Lotus 
(assuredly not of other authors) as having “ from each erena of the stigma a 
short, compressed, incurvated filament, with a clavated summit ; whence I have 
been led to infer he here intends our plant rather than NV. ampla, which it has 
been generally. considered to be. 
DECEMBER Ist, 1854. 
