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GLEANIXGS AIs^D ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
463. Nymphjea scutifolia. Be Candolle. [alias N. capensis Thuulerg,) A most beautiful 
hothouse aquatic, with large blue flo^^ers. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. (Fig, 232.) 
We have two blue Nymphseas in cultivation^ both called N, ccerulea. Of them, one, which is very common, is a native 
of the Nile, and has leaves without indentations, and small flowers : the other, found at the Cape of Good Hope, has 
flowers four times as large, with four times as many petals and stamens, and leaves with coarse indentations at the edge ; 
this is as much more rare as it is more beautiful ; it is sometimes called N. cyanca in Gardens. Concerning the wild 
habits of the last, now figured after a beautiful design in Van Houtte's Flore des Serves et des Jardins^ we have little 
information ; Dr. Hai-vey says it is the only Cape water-lily, and is found in various parts of the colony ; Thunberg 
gives the streams at Lange Kloof. What we certainly know is, that it is by very far the handsomest blue water-hly 
that we possess. 
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