﻿PLATE DHL 



NYMPHiEA RUBRA. 



Red-jlowered Nymphasa. 



CLASS XIII. ORDER I. 



POLYANDR1A MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Corolla polypetala. Calyx 4- seu 5-phyllus. II Blossom many-petalled. Empaleraent 4- or 5- 

 Bacca multilocularis, loculis polysperrais. leaved. Berry many-celled, with many seeds 



I in each cell. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Nymphjea foliis sub-orbieulatis, irregulariter 

 dentatis, glaberrimis : lobis approximatis : 

 corollis rubris : radice battatis assimilata, 

 et multiplicante in modum istius vege- 

 tabilis. 

 Nymphaea rubra. Eoxl. MSSi 



mfhjea with nearly round leaves irregularly 

 toothed, and very smooth, with the lobes 

 approximating : blossom red : root resem- 

 bling that of a potatoe, and increasing like 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A chive. 



2. Seed-bud and pointal. 



This fine red aquatic is so nearly allied to the Nymphaea Lotus, that many consider it as only a va- 

 riety ; but it certainly is specifically distinct in the colour of the flowers, as the term variety can on J 

 be applicable to those lighter or darker shades of colour that may occasionally vary by culture or cli- 

 mate. This Nymphaea is no doubt, like the N. Lotus, considered as a sacred plant ; but probably that 

 species may be more highly estimated, from the emblematical purity of its fine white petals. As to 

 or five more figures will include every species of this fine section of aquatics at present known, w 

 shall not omit any of them, and intend, in the course of the ensuing summer, to give a figure of 

 most magnificent of all the species the N. Nelumbo. 



Our figure was made from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, esq. raised in a tub of water placed in 

 a common hot-bed ; where, notwithstanding its circumscribed situation, it flowered for the first ti 

 in this kingdom, under the care of Mr. Anderson the botanic gardener, who informs me that 

 species is capable of great increase from the root, whilst the N. Lotus affords only one solitary pla^- 



