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nymphiea rubra. r.ed-flowered 

 Water Lily. 



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C7tf/} #»*/ Order, 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character, 



Cal, 4 — 5-phyllus. Petala plurima, germini fub ftaminibus 

 inferta. Bacca fupera, multilocularis, polyfperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



NYMPHIEA rubra; foliis peltatisdentatis fubtuspubefcentibus 



immaculatifque. Dry under in Hort. Kew. inedit. 

 NYMPHIEA rubra. Bot. Repof. 503. 

 CASTALIA magnifica j foliorum laminis fuborhicularibus, 



dentatis, fubtus pubefcentibu* immaculatifque; 



petalis puniceis, parum incequdibus. Satijb. in 



Farad. Lond. 14. 



From the genus Nymph^ea, as conftituted by Linnaeus, 

 Nelumbium has been long fince feparated. 



We have made mention in the 29th volume, No. 1189, of 

 the further divifion of this genus by Mr. Salisbury into 

 Nymph^a and Castalia, and bore our teftimony to the 

 propriety of this feparation. Dr. Smith, in the Prodromus 

 Florae Graca?, in adopting this divifion, has w ? think very 

 properly, retained the ancient name of Nymph/Ea for the 

 genus which contains the raoft numerous and fplendid fpecies, 

 ar »d annlied tn th** v^llrmr-flnurprprl Wafer-1 .ilies that of 



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