ON NYMPHE ACB^. 109 



Part III. 



Synopsis of NYMFHiKACEJ!;. 



Nat. Ord. Njjpmplumcetc, DC, " Prop. Med., od. 2, p. 110." Syst. Nat. II, p. 30. Bentham 

 & Hooker, Genera Plantarum, I, p. 45. Nymphicm, Salisbury, Aun. Bot., (1805), II, p. 60. 



Genus I— VICTORIA, Lindley. 



Liudley, Bot. Register Misc., 1838-0, p. 13. Eudlieher, Genera Plantarum, No. 1510- 

 Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PL, I, p. Té. 



Victoria regia, Lindleij., I.e. Hooker, Bot. Mag., tt. éSTô-éô'ZB, and separate Mono- 

 graph, fol., with coloured plates. R. Brown, Proc. Linn. Soc. Loud., May *7, 1850. 

 Heuirey, Gardeners' Mag. of Bot., May, 1850, p. 225, (coloured plates by Fitch). Lawson, 

 Water Lilies, pp. 24-80, t. 1. Planchou, in Van Houtte's Flore des Serres, March, 1851. 

 Walpers, Annales Botanices Systematicse, (185*7), IV, p. 152. Garden and Forest, pp. 

 308-300, with fig., (1888). Mr. Gray has argued that Reginu not regia is the proper 

 specific name. See Annals of Natural History, ser. 2, Vl. p. 14(3. The form regalis has 

 also been vised. 



Euryale Amazonica. Froriep's Notizen, 1832. Poeppig, ex Endlicher. Planchou, 

 Revue Horticole, Feb., 15th 1853, (Walpers). 



Nymphœa Victoria. Schomburgk, MSS. 



Victoria Amazonica. Planchou, Revue Horticole, Feb. 15th, 1853 (Walpers). 



V. Cruziana. D'Orbigny. Planchou, Ann. des Se. Nat., Ser. 3, XIX, p. 21. Flore des 

 Serres, VI, p. 210 ; VII, p. 35. Walpers I.e. 



Bolivia, district Moxos, near River Mamore, 1801. — Hœnke. Rio das Madeiras, 

 1832. — D'Orbigny. Near Ega, 1832. — Poeppig. British Guiana, in Rivers Berbice and Rou- 

 pounoum, 183*7-42. — Schomburgk. Jacouma, 1846. — Bridges. Amazon River, near Santa- 

 rem, (Para.), April, 1850. — R. Spruce. Brazil, prov. Matto-Grosso, in Rio de Barbado. — 

 Walpers, I.e. Paraguay (V.Cruziana). — D'Orbigny, who derives the native name, Yrupé, 

 from y, water, and riipe, a dish. 



The Royal Water Lily of South America, the most magnificent of all the Nympluc- 

 aceœ, was first raised at Kew from imported seeds, and has now been in cultivation in 

 some of the principal public and private gardens of Europe and America for about forty 

 years, having first blossomed at Chatsworth in November, 1840. In its native lagoons, 

 it appears to present considerable variation (as is not uuusiral in aquatic plants), and two 

 of the most striking forms have been described as separate species ; one of them is well 

 marked, and pending further observation, is retained here as a variety, viz. : — 



Var. Cruziana, distinguished by its uniform green leaves (not purple on the under 

 surface) and larger black seeds ; it may be distinct, but the description is imperfect. 

 First found by M. A. D'Orbigny in 182*7, on the river Parana, 000 miles from its junction 

 with the Rio Plata. 



