ON NYMPH^ACE.E. 117 



Njjmphœa rubra, Koxb. MSS. (Salisbury), and Flora Indica, II, p. 5*7G. Andrews' 

 Bot. Repos., t. 503. Sims' Bot. Mag'., t. 1280 (DO.) DC, Syst., II, p. 52. Prod., I, p. 115. 

 Paxton's Flower Grarden, p. 63, t. 50, where it is observed : " This brilliant aquatie, though 

 an old inhabitant of our gardens, is still a rarity, appearing only in first class collections. 

 Nor has it been fortunate in the artists who have attempted to hx its likeness on paper ; 

 the early figure in the Botanist's Repository is particularly unsatisfactory. . . It is 

 probable that more species than one may be included in this name. . . The leaves 

 are closely covered on the underside with a soft felt of delicate hairs, which are quite 

 perceptible to the touch, . . simple attenuated and smooth cones." 



India, flowering in the rainy season. 



13. — C. Lotus. C. myslka, Britten, Jour. Bot., I.e. Salisb., Ann. Bot., II, p. 73 and 

 Paradisus Lond., (in part). 



Nymphœa Loins, Linn., I.e. Delile, Fl. Jîgypt. 111. DC, Syst., II, p. 53. Prodromus, I, 

 p. 115. N. cœrulea, Savigny, Decad. iEgypt. 



Nile regions and N. Africa. 



Varieties in cultivation, referred more or less correctly to this species, are : rubra (not 

 C. magnifica) ; dentata, a white flowered variety which lacks the imrple colouring of leaf; 

 Devoniensis, with dark-red flowers, said to have been " raised at Chatsworth from rubra, 

 and the type," by another writer to have been " produced from the white-flowered 

 dentata" ; also sngittata ; pubescens ; Boucheana, raised from same iDlauts as Devoniensis ; Sturte- 

 vanti X, A. Gr., flower paler than in Devoniensis, from which it was raised by Mr. E. Sturte- 

 vant, " dift'ers from the other red flowered Nymphseas viz., rubra, Devoniensis, and Ortigie- 

 siana, in the form and color of its flowers, and the tint of its leaves," (The Garden, 

 XXIII, p. 184. Keivensis, a hybrid of C. Lotus fl. albis by Devoniensis, is figured in the 

 Botanical Magazine, t. 6988, (April, 1888). 



14. — C PUBESCENS, Woody Sç Wood, Rees's Cyclop., VI. 



Nymphœu pubescens, Willd., I.e. 



N. Lotus, Roxb. " Rep. 391." 



Castalia mystica, Salisb., Ann. Bot. (in part). 



C. sacra, Britten, Jour. Bot., XXVI, p. 10. 



India. 



15.— C THERMALis, Britteu, Jour. Bot., XXVI, p. 10. 



Nymphaa Lotus, Waldst. et Kit., PL Par. Hung., I, p. 13, t. 15. 



Cast, mystica, Salisb., Ann. Bot., II, p. 73, and Paradisus, (in part). Nymphœa tliermalis, 

 DC, Syst., II, p. 54. Prod., p. 115. 



Hungary. 



This and the two preceding species, pubescens and Lotus, have been much confused, and 

 there is iincertainty in the references to authorities. This is said to have always large 

 white sweet-scented flowers, and to be distinguished from the large forms of Lotus, (under 

 which name it is figured in Bot. Mag. and Bot. Rep.) by absence of pubescence on the 

 lower surface of the leaves, and the " large depression in the crown of the germen." 



16.— C BLANDA. Nymphœa blanda, Meyer, Prim. Fl. Essequib., p. 201, (DC.) DC, 

 Syst., II, p. 59. Hook., Bot. Mag., t. 4823, {Amazonum). 



