NYMPH&ACEJE. 



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and operculum are the same as in NupJiar. E. feroae 1 comes from 

 both India and China. 



Under the name of Victoria 2 (fig. 101) has been distinguished 

 another species 3 from Equinoctial America, which has larger flowers 

 than in the Asiatic species, with the divisions of the gynseceum 



Fury ale {Victoria) amazonica. 



Fig. 101. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



described as stigmas continuous with acute arcuate falciform external 

 prolongations, sometimes considered as interior sterile stamens. 4 

 Omitting these singular bodies and some unimportant differences in 



1 Salisb., loc. cit. — Casp., in Ann. Mas. 

 Lugd.-Bat., ii. 253. — Walp., Ann., iv. 153 ; vii. 

 78. — E. indica Pl., loc. cit., 29, n. 2. — Bot. 

 Mag., 1. 1447. — Anneslea spinosa Andk. — Lien- 

 Jcien, Ki-teou of the Chinese. 



2 Lindl., Monogr., Lond. (1837), ic. ; in Bot. 

 Reg., Misc. (1838), 9.— Endl., Gen., n. 5019. — 

 Hook., in Bot. Mag., t. 4275-4278 ; Vict. Reg., 

 folio (1851). — Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, 

 xix. 2. — B. H., Gen., 47, n. 7. — Casp., in Flora, 

 xi. 111. 



3 E. amazonica Pcepp. in Fror. Notiz., xxxv. 

 9 ; ii. ; Reise, ii. (1835), 432. — Victoria ama- 

 zonica Sow., in Ann. Nat. Hist. (1850, part.). — 



Pi., in Rev. Sort. (15 Fevr., 1853).— V. regia 

 Lindl., loc. cit. — Schomb., Views Int. Guyan., 

 2.— HENFB.,in Gard. Mag. of Bot. (1850), 225, 

 ic. — V. regina Gray, in Mag. Zool. et Bot. 

 (1837); in Ann. Nat. Hist. (1850), 146.— V. 

 regina Hook., in Hook. Journ. (1850), 662. — 

 V. Cruziana d'Orb., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, 

 xiii. 57. — NympTiaa Victoria Schomb., mss. (ex 

 Hook.). 



4 There can at least be no doubt that these 

 acute prolongations form each one continuous 

 organ with the inner more obtuse body, which is 

 termed a stigma. 



