13 



the ripe fruit of Vietoria lies at the bottom of a regularly 

 truncated cup, which stands high above the water, while 

 the blossom of Euryale sinks into the water after flowering, 

 and the fruit when ripe is invested with the irregular decayed 

 remains of the calyx and corolla. 



In drawing up the following account, I have still been 

 obliged to take my description of the leaves from Mr. 

 Schomburgk's papers, that of the fructification is derived 

 from the specimens already referred to. 



VICTORIA. 



Calyx campanulatus limbo 4-partito deciduo. Petala indefinita, fauce calycis in- 

 serta, exteriora patentissima, interiora incurva multo minora. Stamina plurima 

 petaloidea, fauce calycis inserta ; exteriora fertilia libera, interiora sterilia 

 cornuta stigmatibus a tergo adnata. Ovarium inferum multiloculare; loculis 

 polyspermis : ovulis parietalibus ; stylis in campanulam sulcatam tubum 

 calycis vestientem cunnatis ; stigmatibus maximis reniformibus, carnosis. 

 Fructus campanulatus, truncatus, carnosus, intra basin capsulam gerens 

 medio longe rostratam, polyspermam. 



Species unica. Victoria Regia, Lindl. memoir, fyc. cum ic. 

 Nymphsea Victoria, Schomburgk in litteris. 

 ? Euryale amazonica, Poppig reise in Chile, SfC. vol. 2. p. 432. 



Habitat in fluvio Berbice Guianae Britannicae, ubi inventa est eel. R. H. Schom- 

 burgk. 



Planta natans Nymphaeee aspectu. Folia plantarum omnium maxima, Palmis 

 exceptis, saepe diametro sexpedali, orbicularia, bine emarginata, supra atro- 

 viridia, plana, margine elevato, subtus sanguinea, costis maximis a centro 

 radian tibus inter se venis parallelis transversis colligatis, cum petiolo spi- 

 nosis. Flores speciosissimi, fragrantes, quindecim uncias lati, pedunculis 

 spinosis super aquam elevati. Calyx sanguineus, coriaceus, campanulatus ; 

 tubo et pedunculo aculeis rigidis horridis, limbo 4-partito, deciduo, laciniis 

 dorso spinulosis, ovato-triangularibus, carnosis, obtusis, 6 pollices longis. 

 Petala indefinita, oblonga, coriacea, fauce calycis inserta, exteriora patentis- 

 sima • interiora minora, incurva, acuminata, mucronata, sensim in stamina 

 abeuntia ; petala exteriora Candida, post horas quasdam rubescentia, inte- 

 riora sanguinea. Stamina sanguinea, lineari-triangularia, carnosa, incurva; 

 fertilia libera seriebus sex fauce calycis intra petala inserta : anthera; 

 loculis 2, linearibus, parallelis, immersis ; sterilia cornuta, carnosa, incurva, 

 biseriata, basi subtus sulcata, dorso stigmatorum adnata. Ovarium calycis 

 tubo omnino adnatum ; stylis in campanulam tubum vestientem circa axin 

 centralem elevatum conicum connatis ; loculis tot quot stigmata polysper- 

 mis ; ovulis plurimis reti dissepimentorum spongiosorum succulentorum 

 affixis cuique loculo circiter 28 ; stigmatibus 36, carnosis, compressis, reni- 

 formibus, verticalibus a tergo staminibus sterilibus adnatis. Fructus cyathi- 

 formis, truncatus, carnosus, viridis, aculeatus, margine piano truncato, intra 

 basin capsulam gerens, medio longe rostratam polyspermam. 



Since the foregoing remarks were put in type, 1 learn 

 from the last number of the Comptes rendus, that a copy of 



