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A very full description of this plant, with fine illustrations, is 

 to be found in the first volume of the ' Gardener's Magazine of 

 Botany. 5 



Nymphaea. 



1. N. caerulea. Native of Egypt: a small and most desirable 

 plant; admirably adapted for growing in some conspicuous 

 place in a large earthen vessel sunk to the rim in the ground. 

 Its beautiful many-petalled flowers are of the size of a Tulip, 

 blue, with a yellow centre, and emit a most delightful fragrance, 

 like that of orris-root. Bears seed abundantly. 



2. N. stellata. Native of the jheels of Bengal, where, when in 

 blossom and seen at a little distance, it might be taken for the 

 last ; but the flowers are not so double, and have no scent. 



3. N. pubescens and N. edulis. Are white Water-lilies, com- 

 mon in waste pieces of water about Bengal, but have no preten- 

 sions to the beauty of N. alba so common in England. 



4. N. rubra. Native of Bengal ; very handsome when in 

 blossom with its large and brilliant red flowers. 



5. N. versicolor. Native of Bengal ; bears large rose-coloured 

 flowers. 



NELUMBIACE^E. 

 Nelumbium. 



1. N. speciosum WATER-BEAN. Pudum Kunwul. A large 

 and, when in blossom, very beautiful plant, common in tanks 

 and jheels in every part of India. Bears in the Hot season very 

 large, double, rose-coloured handsome flowers. It produces 

 seed abundantly in curious, drooping, cone-shaped seed-vessels. 

 The seeds are sown by enclosing them in a ball of clay, and 

 throwing them into the water. 



2. N. luteum. THE YELLOW WATER-BEAN. Native of Caro- 

 lina : a small plant exists in the gardens of the Agri-Horticul- 

 tural Society. I am not informed whether it has ever flowered 

 or not. 



MAGNOLIACE^:. 

 Talauma. 



T. pumila. A very delightful shrub, about five feet high, native 



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