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las altas diviso, vernatione involutiva; stipulis folii cujusvis 
in unam intrapetiolarem amplam, membranaceam, apice bifidam 
connatis: pedunculis extraaxillaribus, ebracteatis,. petiolo adulto 
multo brevioribus, unifloris; flore amplissimo, vespertino-nocturno, 
bis sese explicante, prima vice, petalis serierum exteriorum. an- 
tum expansis, pure niveo, odoremque suavissime fragrantem 
spirante, secunda vice petalis omnibus patentissime reflexis, co- 
lore pallide roseo suffusis, serie interna purpureo pieta, ligulis 
sterilibus in coronam purpureo- roseam pulchre. assurgentibuss 
fructu, nuptiis, sub aqua semina numerosa, propter albumen fari- 
nosum edulia maturante. i 
Victoria, Lindley, Monograph: Lond. 1837 c. icon. fol 
max. Bot. Reg. ann. 1838. Append. pag. 13 Endl. Gener. 
N. 1509. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4275—78. Rob. Brown, proce- 
dings of the Linn. Soc. Mag. 7, (1850), fide. Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, May 18, 1850. Henfrey, in the Gardeners’ 9 
of botany, May 1850, p. 225 (cum icon.) 
Euryales spec. Poepp. 
Nymphaeae sp. Schomburgk olim. 
Charact. specif. — Victoria regia — - foliis discoloribus 
(subtus vinoso — v. violaceo-purpureis ), calycis tubo hemispherice 
campanulato, bacca: diametro: ad extremum (in caldario) 8 — 
centimetrali, seminibus recentibus viridibus, postea obscurioribus _ 
subbrunneis. 
Victoria regia Lindl. (ann. 1837). 
Victoria Regina Gray, Magaz. of zool. and bot, Novemb. 
1838, et in Ann. of nat. hist. ann. 1850, p. 146. 
Vietoria regalis, Aliquor. ex Hook. 
Victoria Reginae, Hook. Lond. journ. of Bot. and Kew. 
Gard. Miscell. Octob. 1850, pag. 314. 
Victoria amazonica, Sowerby, in Ann, of nat. hist. ann, 
1850, ex the Gardeners' and Farmers' Journal, Octob, 1850, 
p. 662. 
