[Plate 50.] 
THE CRIMSON WATER-LILY. 
(NYMPUJEA RUBRA,) 
A Stove Aquatic, from the E. Indies, belonging to the Natural Order 0/ Wateu-lilies 
J-pccific Cl^arartrr. 
THE CRIMSON WATER-LILY. Leaves roundish, ovate, 
slightly peltate, toothed, deeply split at the base, downy 
on the underside. Flowers crimson. ■ Sepals 7-ribbed. 
Stigmas 15. 
l^iYllVRMk RUBRA ; foliis subpeltatls ovato-subrotuudis 
dentatis basi fissis subt^s pubescentibus, floribus san- 
guineis, sepalis T-nerviis, stigmatibus 15. 
Nymplunea rubra: Roxburgh's Flora Indica, ii. 576; «?ia* Castalia magnifica: R. A. Salisbury, Paraduus Londinend$,X. 14 
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first class collections. Nor has it been fortunate in the artists who have attempted to fix its 
likeness 
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specimen 
during 
and by no means so common as the Nym])Ma Lotus, nor do we find other details in the works of 
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Indian 
name 
N, rubra 
stamens 
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as 
Neither of these corresponds with 
presume 
ribbed sepals, crimson inside, succeeded by broad satiny spreading crimson petals, the central of which 
are linear, blunt, erect, curved inwards, and CTadually passing into the crimson stamens wlnVh flipv 
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