PLATE CXCVII. 



NYMPHtEA ccerulea. 



Blue JVater-Lily. 



CLASS XIIL ORDER L 

 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium inferum, tetraphyllum, 

 magnum, fupra coloratura, perfiflens. 



Corolla. Petala numerofa (quindecem faepe,) 

 germinis lateri infidentia, ferie plus quam 

 fimplici. 



Stamina. Filamenta numerofa (feptuaginta 

 faepe,) plana, curva, obtufa, brevia. An- 

 therae oblongae, filamentorum margini ad- 

 natce. 



PisTiLLUM. Germen ovatum, magnum. Stylus 

 nullus. Stigma orbiculatiim, planum, pel- 

 tato-feflile, radiis notatum, margine crena- 

 tum, perfiilens. 



Peeicarpium. Bacca dura, ovata, carnofa, ru- 

 dis, colic angurtata apice coronata, multi- 

 locularis (decern ad quindecem loculis,) 

 pulpa plena. 



Srmina plurima, fubrotunda. 



Empalement. Cup beneath, four leaved, large, 



coloured above, permanent. 

 Blossom. Petals numerous (often fifteen,) 



placed on the fide of the feed-bud, in more 



than one row. 

 Chives. Threads numerous (often feventy,) 



flat, curved, blunt, ftiort. Tips oblong, 



fixed to the margin of the threads. 



Pointal. Seed-bud egg-fhaped, large. Shaft, 

 none. Summit round, fiat, central, fitting, 

 marked in rays, fcolloped at the edge, re- 

 maining. 



Seed-vessel. Berry hard, egg-fhaped, fleftiy, 

 rough, narrowed at the neck, crowned at 

 the top, many-celled (from ten to fifteen 

 cells,) full of pulp. 



Seeds many, roundilli. 



SPECIFIC CHAR-ACTER. 



Nymphaea foliis cordato-orbiculatis, fenioribus 

 crenatis, lobis acutis imbricatis, acuminatis; 

 petalis acutis, lanccolatis, caeruleis. 



Nymphaea with between heart-iliaped and round 

 leaves, the old ones fcolloped, lobes iharp, 

 tiled, and tapered ; j)etals fharp, lance- 

 fliaped, and blue. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



J. A Chive. 



2. The Seed-bud and Summit. 



3. The Seed-bud, cut tranfverfely, to fliew the number of cells. 



Amongst aquatic or water plants, the Nymphaeas are undoubtedly the moft defirable in cultivation; 

 although, we fhould agree to the exclufion of N. Nelumbo, &c. now forming a dillinft genus in the 

 Sp. Plant, of Willdenow; tnken from Uftcri's Ed. of Juflieu's Gen. Plant, clalled from the natural 

 charafters, under the title of Nelumbium's. This plant may be kept in the green-houfe, or hot-houfe, 

 in a large tub filled with water and a fmall portion of mud at the bottom. It propagates by the 

 root, and the flowers, which are extremely fragrant, are produced in Auguft, in which month, this 

 year, our drawing was made, from a large plant in the Hibbertian colleftion ; but, from an omiflion 

 in the figure, we were obliged to fiuifli the plate from a plant, in the colleflion of J. Vere, Efq. Ken- 

 fington Gore, ftill in flower, the beginning of Oflober. The leaves of this fpecies are moft beautifully 

 fcolloped, and near a foot in diameter ; but the indentitions are fcarecly to be perceived in the younger; 

 one of which, as we could not introduce the larger, is fhewn on the plate of the natural fize. 



It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. 

 F. Maflbn, about the year i;g2. 



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