104 GEOEGE LAWSON 



Nymphsea, Linnœus. 1762 ) 

 TImnberg, 1784 S 



Nelumbo, Tonrnefort, 1700 = (Cyamus, 



Salisbury.) 

 Castalia, Salisbury, 1805. 

 Nymphsea, " " 



Nymphœa, Smith, 1808-9) ,. „ ,. , ^^n- 



•' ^^ i = Castalia, Salisbury, 180o. 



Benth. 8ç Hook., 1862 ) 



Nymphrea, Salisbury, 1805 J _ ^ ^^^ ^,^^.^ ^^^^_^^ 



Britten, 1888 S 



Of plants that come within the genns Castalia, Salisbury, only two nominal species 

 were described by Linnseixs, in his genus Nymphaa, in the second edition of the " Species 

 Plantarum" (Vol. I, published in 1762). "We have seen that the genus itself, as defined 

 and ftirnished with species by Linnaeus, was a composite one, including plants that, both 

 before and after his time, were referred to separate genera. In like manner, the two 

 Liunœan species of Nymphœa that are now referred to Castalia were both composite 

 species, as we glean from the cited references to authors and the indications given of 

 geographical range. The first, N. alba, included not only the "White "Water Lily of Europe — 

 Nymphœa alba, Camerarius (1586), — but also, as indicated by the phrase " habitat in Europâ 

 et America," at least one other plant, which we assume to have been the common "White 

 Water Lily of the American continent, now known as odorata. The second species, N. 

 Lotus, included the Lotus Mgyptia of Pliny, a name adopted by Alpinus (1672), and also 

 the Jamaica species of Brown and Sloane, — " habitat in calidis Indiœ, Africa?, Americœ." 

 The two original Linncean species of the genus, then, were : — 



1. Nymphœa alba, ) 



> Liuna3us, Species Plantarum, 1762. 



2. N. Lotus, ) 



In the first edition of Alton's " Hortus Kewensis " (1789), Dryander described, under 

 name of N. odorata, a North American species that had been introduced to England by 

 "William Hamilton in 1786, and was identified with the N. alba flore plena odorata of 

 Clayton, in " Gronovii Flora Virginica" (1762) : — 



3. N. odorata, Dryander, Hortus Kewensis, 1789. 



.T. F. G-melin, in the third edition of the Systema Naturœ of Linnycus (Leipzic, 

 1791), i^nserted the N. reniformis of "Walter's Flora Carolina. "Willdenow, in liis ampli- 

 fied edition of the Species Plantarum, (P799), without recognising "Walter's plant (then 

 unknown in Europe except by the description in his work), increased the number of 

 species to five by describing, (1) under name of N. stellata, the plant called Citambel in 

 Van Eheede's Hortus Malabaricus ; (2) as N. pubescens, another East Indian species, with 

 large toothed leaves, hairy beneath, characterised by Plukenet in the " Almagestum" as 

 " N. Indica," etc. : — 



4. N. stellata, ) 



[ "Willdenow, Sp. Plantarum, 1799. 



5. N. pubescens, ) 



