This is certainly not a plant of much beauty, but will re- 

 commend itfelf to the Botanift by the very fingular conftruc- 

 tion of its flowers. It is truly, as the name imports, a lover 

 of water, and will not thrive at all unlefs the pot containing 

 it is plunged deep in water; but fo treated and kept in an airy 

 part of die ftove, it grew to a very great fize and produced 

 plenty of ripe feeds, at Mr. Woodford's at Vauxhall, where 

 our drawing was taken in June laft. 



It is a native of New-Holland, of China, and Cochinchina, 

 and from the latter place fpecimens were fent into Europe by 

 Loureiro in the year 1774. 



