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NY M P HJE A I . Foliis amplioribus profundi crenatis, fubtus areolaris. 

 Nymphaea foliis cordatis dentatis. L. Sp. PJ. 

 Nymphaea Indica tuberofa, foliis ad mar gin em crenatis, &c. The. Zey. 

 Nymphaea Indica folio in ambit u ferrato. Slo. Cat. 120. 

 Nymphaea & Lotus JEgyptia authorum. 



Ambel. H. M. 



p. 1 1. t. 26. 



The /Egyptian Lotus, or Water-Lilly, with crenated leaves. 



This plant is very common in all the ponds, lagoons, and rivers, about the Fer- 

 ry ; and throws up fome beautiful large white flowers, futfained, each, by a Jimple 

 long cylindric foot-ftalk. All parts of the plant may be ufed for the fame purpofes, 

 for which thofe of the common water-lily are recommended j for it is, like that, 

 an excellent cooler, and, probably, would anfwer well in the yellow fever, where 

 fuch gentle cooling calmers alone can be adminiftered with fuccefs. 





NYMPtLEA 2* Foliis orbicularis, pelt at is, fubtus radiatis-, fruBu obverfi 



conico, feminibus majoribus nidulantibus. 

 Nymphaea foliis undique integris. L. Sp. PI. & H.C. 

 Nymphaea Indica maxima, fore albo fabifero. Muf. & Thez. Zey. 

 Nymphaea JEgyptia fabifera, pedunculis afperfis. Pk. t. 322. f. u 

 Nelumbo. Tournefortii. 



Faba iEgyptia authorum, 

 Tamara. H*M. p. 11. t. 30. 



The /Egyptian Bean, or Great Water- Lilly; 



This plant is pretty common in the lagoons beyond the Ferry ; but I have not ob- 

 ferved it in any of the deeper waters. It feems to grow beft in a loofe boggy 

 ground, where the leaves may ftand in open air, while the roots, and lower parts of 

 the ftem are plentifully fupplied with moitlure 



I (hall not mention any thing of the doubts and confufion, which the ambiguous 



defcriptions and accounts, left us by the ancient writers, concerning the form and 

 ufes of this plant, have occafioned in the works of our moft noted botanifts : but 

 were I to give my own thoughts upon the occafion, I ihould, without hefitation, 

 attribute it to a miftake in the original writers} who, under the title of Faba/Egyp- 

 tia, have given a thorough defcription of the upper parts of this plant -, and as ac- 

 curate an account of the roots of the leiler Collocafia, now commonly called Caccos, in 

 Ja?naica. This is fo agreeable to truth, that every man who is acquainted with both 

 thefe plants, may, by feparating the parts of the defcription, form a thorough idea of 

 each • and fo exadt a one, as to anfwer all the effential marks and noted characters 



peculiar to the refpeclive parts 



hole; nor with any other known plant, even in a confiderable part 

 henc we may conclude, that the whole confufion proceeds from an error in the ori- 



of both ; tho' they never agree with either, in 



the 



And from 



einal defcriptions, arifing, probably, from fome erroneous information. 



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