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NYMPH/EA PYGMiEA. PlGMY WATER-LILY. 



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Clqfs and Order, 



PoLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 4 — 5-phyllus, inferus. Petala plurima germine fub 

 ftaminibus inferta. Bacca mukilocularis, polyfperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms* 



NYMPH j£ A pygmaa; foliis cordatis integerrimis, ftigmatc 

 7 — 8-radiato. HorL Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 293. 



CASTALIA pygmaa. Salijb. Paradif. 68. 



NYMPHiEA "tetragona. Georgia Reife im Ruff. Reich, v, I. 

 p. 220. 



NYMPHS A foliis cordatis integerrimis, calyce quadrifido. 

 Gmel. Sib. 4. p. 183. /. 71. quoad iconem, male, ni fallimur, 

 in Horto Kewenfi ad noftram N. nitidam (1359) relatam. 



Nymph a a pygmaa was certainly brought to this country from 

 China, where, on the authority of Mr. William Ker, it is in- 

 digenous; yet, upon comparing it with Pallas's own fpecimens, 

 now in the pofleflion of A. B. Lambert, Efq. it appears to us 

 to be decidedly the fame as his tetragonantbos, the tetragona 01 

 M. Georgi, above quoted. Native of Eaftern Siberia; and," 

 we miftake not, the figure in Gmelin's Flora Sibirica rather 

 belongs to this than to our nitida, to which- it is referred in the 

 new edition of Hortus Kewenfis. The charaBer of the finking 

 of the veins on the under, as well as upper, fide of the leaf is 

 common to both thefe fpecies. 



The name of tetragona was given to the Siberian plant, from the 

 receptacle being exaclly fquare, which gives in fome degree the 

 fame form to the bafe of the flower. We did not advert to this 

 circumftance when we had the living plant before us, but, from 

 the drawing, it appears to have been the fame in ours; and Mr* 

 Salisbury, in defcribing this part, fays it is (lightly quadran- 

 gular. 



Treated as a ftove plant, bloiToms freely, not always at the 

 fame feafon. Our fpecirncn flowered in the elegant collection 

 of Mr. Kent, at Clapton, in Auguft laft, and it was in bloom 

 about the fame time in the royal gardens at Kew. 



