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Nymph^ea Cerulea. Blue Water-Lily, 



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Clafs and Order. 



POLYAXDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. polypetala. Cal. 4 — 5-phyllus. Bacca multilocularis, 

 loculis polyipermis. 



Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 

 NYMPH jEA cterulea-, foliis peltatis inferne bilobis obtufe 



dentato-finuatis utrinque glabris. Dryand. tnedit. 

 NYMPH^EA cxrulea. Bot. Repof. 197. 



* A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Calyx four-leaved. 

 " Petals twenty in three ranks. Stigmas twenty. I do not 

 «* know if the blue- flowered Eau-India one be the fame; 

 " the leaves feem to be entire, and the flowers fmaller Wiw 

 *' acute petals. — N. B. I have fmce had it with entire leaves. 

 Dryand. Mff. 



We are proud to have it in our power to offer any thing not 

 before communicated from fuch a fource as Dr. Drya nd£R ' 

 The (ketches of a mailer's hand are of more value than 

 the finiflied labours of other men. The leaves are truly pel- 

 tate, though divided to within half an inch of the footftajK 

 into two lobes, which terminate in a curved point a little 01- 

 t varicate, fo as to give it a fomewhat fagittate appearance. 

 In this form of the lobes it differs from Nymph tea lotus* as 

 well as that in the latter the margin of the leaf is acute y 

 dentated and tomentofe on the under fide. But there are pro- 

 bably feveral fpecics as yet undefcribed. This is certainly one 

 of the moft beautiful of aquatic plants, and appears to be 

 more eafily cultivated than moft of them, flowering readuyi 

 and continuing to bloffom through great part of the Summer. 

 It has the additional recommendation of being very fragran • 

 Is ufually kept in the ftove planted in a pot of loamy eart , 

 and immerfed under water in the ciftern, but would P erna P 

 fucceed as well in a good greenhoufe. Our drawing was ma 

 from a fpecimen that flowered laft May in the collection 

 the Right Hon. Charles Greville, at Paddington, and 

 to be met with in feveral collections in the neigh bourhooa 

 the metropolis. 



