present plant ; we have nevertheless very little doubt but that 

 the latter is a mere variety of the Nymph^a stellata of Hortus 

 Kewensis and of the Botanist's Repository ; as well as of 

 Roxburgh's Flora Indica, not yet published. It diners from 

 NymphjEa carulea (No. 552) in having smaller leaves, purple 

 coloured on the under side, with their margins quite entire 

 and divergent lobes ; in the petals being fewer in number, 

 sharper pointed, and of a paler blue; in having fewer stamens, 

 and a stigma with fewer rays : though all these organs were 

 more numerous in our plant than as described by Dr. 

 Roxburgh. The flowers are entirely destitute of the fragrance 

 of ccErulea. 



Our drawing was made from a plant communicated by Mr. 

 William Kent, of Clapton, who informs us that he raised it 

 from seeds he received from Mr. M e Nab, of Edinburgh. It 

 grows readily from seeds, and if kept in the cistern of the stove, 

 blooms most part of the summer ; but appears to be only 

 annual. Native of the East-Indies. Introduced in 1803 by 

 Mr. William Anderson, now curator of the Botanic Garden 

 at Chelsea. 



