This magnificent fpecies is a native of the Eaft-Indies. We 

 learn from Dr. Roxburg's manufcript, that this fpecies is not 

 unfrequent in Indoftan, growing in pools of frefh water, and 

 in rivers, where there is little current. And that the feeds 

 are eaten both raw and boiled, and efteemed wholefome ; and 

 in times of fcarcity the roots alfo. Introduced into the Kew 

 Gardens by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, and K. B. 

 Our drawing was taken -from a plant which flowered in Auguft 

 1808, at Mr. WooDFOkD's, late of Rickmanfworth in Hert- 

 fordshire. We have feen it repeatedly in flower at Mr. Vere's, 

 Kenfington-Gore, where, with feveral other fpecies, it is cul- 

 tivated in a ciftern, placed on a common hot-bed. 



