“» BLETE CCCXXX. 
NYMPHEA STELLATA. 
Starr'd Water-Lily. 
: GLASS Kil. : ORDER -E 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointal. _ 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
.Cur 4,5 or 6-leaved. Bloff. many Bee. Berry 
many-celled, appearing cut off at top. 
See NyMPHHA C@ERULEA, Pl. CXCVIi. Vol. HI. 
Caryx 4, 5, feu 6-phyllus. Cor. polypetala. 
- Bacca multilocularis, truncata. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ee ait 
ae 
Nymphea foliis fubrotundis, finuatis, ‘fabtus _ Water-lily with nearly round leaves, feollopped 
purpurafcentibus; lobis divaricatis, acutis; and purplifh underneath; lobes ftraddling 
calyce tetraphyllo, petalis acutis cceruleis = || . and pointed; cup four-leaved, longer than 
longiore. ; - _ the pointed, blue petals. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, ies 
1. The Cup divefted of the eee a 
2. A Chive, natural fize. ; 
oo 3. The feed-vetfel, nearly ; ahived: to maturity. 
. Oe 4. The fame, cut tranfverfely. 
‘Tas fine fpecies of Water-lily is a native of the Eaft Indies, on the Malabar coaft; and has been i 
_ given by Rheed, in his Hortus Malabaricus, Vol. II. p. 53. fig.27. At firft fight, it has much the 
_ appearance of N, ceerulea, but upon clofer infpestion it is found to poffefs many ftrongly differing 
_ characters, viz. In this, the under part of the leaves are purpliih, the lobes ftraddle; in that, they are 
tiled, or lay upon each other; in N. ftellata the petals or chives feldom exceed ten; whereas, the 
N. coerulea has an indefinite number of both. The roots, likewife, are perfealy diftina; in 
te N. cerulea the diverging roots proceed from the lower part of the bulb, from whence the leaves ‘ic 
3 but in N. ftellata from the top, leaving below them a fmooth top-fhaped bulb. The parts W 
compofe the fummit, or rather the fammits, (for indeed we thould confider them, if it lay with us, @ 
. pointals,) are expanded horizontally when the flower is in its perfect ftate, forming 4 far i ta 
pearance, whence its fpecific name. It is much tenderer than N. coerulea, and will not flower 
tiene heat. Mr. Anderfon informs us that the plants which have produced perfect feeds, a 
were from feeds, received by A. B. Lambert, Efq. (communicated by Dr. Roxburgh from where 
the month of March, and raifed by him for the colledtion of J. Vere, Efq. ‘Kenfington Gore, 
our drawing was made in August. 
