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NyYMPHAA NITIDA. CuP-FLOWERED 
W aTER-LILyY. 
WHR 
Cla/s and Order. 
PoLyaNprRIA MonocyNliaA. 
Generic Charafer. 
_ Cal, 4—5-phyllus. Peta/a plurima germini fub ftaminibus, 
inferta. Stigma radiatum, feffile, medio ne€tariferum, Bacca 
fupera, multilocularis, polyfperma. Smita. _ 
Specific Charader. 
NYMPH.ZA uitida ; foliis fuborbiculatis integerrimis ; lobis 
obtufiffimis: venis utrinque exaratis, rhizomate 
perpendiculari, petalis obtufis calycem tetra- 
phyllum aquantibus. 
That this fpecies, which is very nearly related to Nym- 
PHA odorata (vid. No. 819) is really diftin€t, we are per- 
fuaded by the obfervations of Mr. Anperson, Gardener to 
James Vere, Efg. of Kenfington-Gore. This intelligent 
cultivator finds that the roots afford the moft difcriminative ~ 
characters in this genus, and at once point out a real difference 
between thefe two nearly allied fpecies. In nit:da the root- 
ftock is perpendicular and does not feem ever to acquire any 
confiderable length, whereas in odorata, this part extends ho- 
rizontally along the mud, in the fame manner as in alsa, 
Nymeu za nitida feems to require the conftant heat of a ftove 
or hot-bed to preferve it alive, whilft odorata is now found to 
be quite hardy. We have not been able to learn of what 
country mifida is a native, but from the abo € circumftance 
it probably belongs to a tropical clime. The flowers are 
without feent. We are not yet fatisfied whether the finking 
of the veins below the furface of the leaf, which in this inftance 
was the cafe on both fides, be a conftant and permanent cha- 
rater, or variable according to the age of the leaf or from 
other accidental circumftances. Is propagated by offsets, 
Bloffoms in Auguft. Drawn at Mr. Vere’s garden in Auguft, 
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