C 1189 1 



Nymph^a Versicolor. Changeable 

 Water-Lily. 



Oafs and Order. 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Characler. 



Cor. 4-petala. Cal. 4- feu 5-phylIus. Bacca truncata, muhi- 

 locularis, loculis polylpermis. 



CASTALIA. Saiifbury in Annals of Botany, v. 2. p. 71. 



Specif c Characler and Synonym. 



NYMPHiEA verf color / foliis fuborbiculatis dentato-finuatis 

 puftulatis : lobis approximatis rotundatis finuatis, 

 ftigmate quindecim-radiato. 



NYMPHS A diverf color. Roxb. MSS. 



This very rare plant, which we believe has never been be- 

 fore figured, is readily diflinguiftied from Nymphaea Lotus % 

 and from every other fpecies that we are acquainted with, 

 by the lobes of the leaves being rounded, obtufe, approxi- 

 mating, and finuated even to the bottom of the fiffure, as 

 well as by the glandular puftules on both furfaces. 



Mr. Salisbury has, in the Annals of Botany, feparated 

 the fpecies hitherto arranged under Nymphs a, into two 

 diftinft genera ; leaving the original name to N. lutea, advena t 

 and fagittifolia, and applying that of Castalia to N. alba, 

 odorata (No. 819) carulea (No. 552) Lotus .(No. 797) Sec. 

 * l is to this lait genus that our prefent plant belongs, but 

 having already publifhed feveral fpecies under the name of 

 Nymphs a, we think it belt ftill to continue it, efpecicilly as 

 we are not yet certain how far the change will be acceptable 

 t0 Botanifts in general. To us there appears to be a fuffi- 

 cient generic difference between the yellow-Uowered fpecies 



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