116 GEOEGB LAWSON 



N. scutifolia, DC, Syst , II, p. 50., Prod., I, p. 114. 

 Cape of Grood Hope, {Masson, Tliunberg). 



10.— C. STELLATA, W. Sç W., Rees's Cyc, VI. 



Nymphœa stellata, Willd., Species Plautarum, II, p. 1153. DC, Syst., II, p. 51., Prod. 

 I, p. 115. 



Castalia stellaris, Salisb., Auu. Bot., II, p. Y2, exclude the Australian plant, which is 

 gigantea. Britteu, Jour. Bot., XXVI, p. 9. N. Madagascarensis, DC, Syst., II, p. 50. Prod., 

 I, p. 114, is also referred to this species, together with forms iu cultivation known as 

 ccerulea, Capensis, parviflora, versicolor, cyanea, scutifolia, micrantha, and Daubenei/ana, — the last 

 a reputed garden hybrid. 



Nymphœa Zanzibarensis, Oaspary, which first flowered at Kew in 1883, is referred, iu 

 The Garden, as a variety of sleUala. It is figured and described in that work (1883) 

 as having flowers nine inches iu width. The flowers are described as blue or violet- 

 purple in tint, and as having a delicate primrose scent. The descriptions given are not 

 very assuring as to its place : — " Possibly this noble plant is an unusually fine form of 

 the Cape species, N. slellala.'" " Only a form of the common African species, N. stellata.'" 

 "Doubtful if it ditfers at all from the plant known as N. scutifolia:' (The Garden, 

 XXIII, p. 128.) iV. Zanzibarensis, var. ft. rubro, " Siber., Gartenflota, jahr. XXXVI, heft 3, 

 GrEebener, ibid., jahr. XXXVI, heft 9."— Balfour, Vines and Farlow's Annals of Bot., 

 I, p. Ixxx. 



A writer in the London Gardeners' Chronicle notices, under date JvTue 9th, 1888, the 

 flowering at Kew of a Water Lily obtained through seeds, iiuder name of N. Ortigiesiana 

 var. Adele, from M. Todaro of Palermo, but which proved to be not related to Ortigiesiana, 

 which is a supposed hybrid of continental origin, so near N. Lotus var. rubra as to be 

 scarcely distinguishable from it. N. ''Adele " is regarded as a form of the African stellata : 

 leaves irregularly notched and mottled, flowers three inches across, sweet scented, with 

 narrow pointed petals. The same writer (presumably) in a subsequent number of the 

 same periodical says : — " Under these three names [Nymphœa Zanzibarensis flore-rubro, N. 

 Ortigiesiana var. Adele, and N scutifolia rosea] there are three plants iu the collection at Kew, 

 which are in flower and which are not distinguishable from each other. The first-named 

 came from Karlsruhe, reputedly as a cross between N Zanzibarensis and N. dentata ; the 

 second came through seeds from Palermo ; and the third was obtained from Glasgow. 

 "Whatever the origin of the plant which has somehow been named three times, it is cer- 

 tainly a variety of the well-known African species, N. stellata, and, so far as I can make it 

 out, it is the form which has been named iV. stellata var. purpurea. The flowers are five 

 inches across, with purple filaments and yellow anthers ; open before noon and remain 

 expanded till evening."— W.W., Gardeners' Chronicle, June 30, 1888, ser. 3, III, p. 800. 



11. — C EDULis, Salisbury, I.e. Eees's Cyc, VI. Britteu, Jour. Bot., XXVI, p. 9. 

 Nymphœa Coteka, Roxb. MSS. N. edulis, DC, Syst., II, p. 52 ; Prod., I, p. 52. 

 India. 



12. — C MAGNIFICA, Salisbury, Paradisus Loudineusis, t. 14. Britten, Jovir. Bot., XXVI, 

 p. 9. 



