PLATE CXCVII. 
NYMPHEHEA CCQ@RULEA. 
: Blue Water-Lily. 
CLASS XIII. 
ORDER I. 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. 
One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium inferum, tetraphyllum, 
gnum, fupra coloratum, perfiftens. 
Corotta. Petala numerofa (quindecem fepe,) 
germinis Jateri infidentia, ferie plus quam 
mpli 
Stamina.  Filamenta numerofa ee 
pe,) plana, curva, obtufa, bre 
there oblong, filamentorum suveisl us 
nate. 
Pistintum. Germen ovatum, magnum. Stylus 
Hullus, Stigma orbiculatum, planum, pel- 
tato-feffile, radiis notatum, margine crena- 
» pero 
Pericarrivm. Bases dura, ovata, carnofa, ru-_ 
~ “ong anguftata apice coronata, multi- 
ris (dece quindecem loculis;) 
pire plena 
Semina ciation, fubrotunda. 
SPECIFIC 
'y foliis cordato-orbiculatis, oe 
crenatis, lobis acutis imbricatis — 
petalis acutis, lanceolatis, caritles 
umerous ere n_ fifteen,) 
placed on the fide of the feed-bud, in more 
ds numerous (often feventy,) 
flat, curved, blunt, fhort. ips oblong, 
fixed to the margin of the threads. 
Pointat. Seed-bud egg-fhaped, large. Shaft, 
none. Summit round, flat, central, fitting, 
ene! in rays, ‘tooled at the edge, re- 
maining 
Seep-vesseL. Berry hard, Sa gp sa flefhy, 
rough, narrowed at neck, crowned at 
the top, ee (fom ten to fifteen 
cells,) full of pulp. 
SEEDs many, roundifh. 
CHARACTER. 
Nymphza with between heart-fhaped and round 
leaves, the old ones ee lobes fharp, 
tiled, and tapered; petals fharp, lance- 
thaped, and blue. 
; REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, A Chive. 
2. The Seed-bud and Sum 
mit. 
3. The Seed-bud, cut tranfverlely, to fhew the number of cells. 
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AmoncstT aquatic or water plants, the Nymphzas are undoubtedly the moft defirable i in cultivation ; 
mbo 
It is a native of the Cape of 
of Maffon, aboct the — 1792. 
we fhould agree to the exclufion of N. Nelu 
: in Au 
year, c arge plant in the Hibbertian colleétion; b 
in the figure, we were obliged to finith the plate from a plant, in the colleétion of J. Ver 
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