SELECT LIST OF STOVE AQUATICS, 



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Indian Villarsia. (Vinarsia indica.) j 

 ilowers from June to September, in | 

 rich mo aid. Suckers. j 



Curl-leaved Aponog-eton. {Aponogeton | 

 crisjmm.) Flowers from June to Sep- i 

 tember, in rich mould. Offsets. j 



Indian Damasonium. [Damasominn \ 

 indicum.) Flowers from July to Sep- 

 tember, in rich mould. Seeds. 



Acute-leaved Arrow-head. (Sagiffaria 

 acuTifoUa.) Flowers in June and 

 July,' in rich mould. Division of the \ 

 plant. i 



Victoria Regina, Flowers in its na- : 

 tive country, British Guiana, in i 

 January. From all we at present ; 

 know of this extraordinary aquatic, i 

 it is probable that its cultYa-e will ! 

 be the same as that of Eiirjiale ferox, \ 

 2\vm !. Jiecey &:c., to which it is nearly i 

 allied. It was discovered by R. H. , 

 Schomburg-k, Esq., in 1S37, and : 

 named after her majesty the Queen. ! 

 Mr. S. transmitted the original draw- 

 ing's to the Botanical Society of Lon- 

 don, accompanied with a description, 

 which was read before that society 

 September 7th, 1837, and of which the \ 

 following- is an extract: — "'^Thile \ 

 contending- with the difficulties na- ' 

 ture opposed in different fomis to our ! 

 progress up the river Berbice, we 

 arrived at a point where the river ; 

 expanded, and* fomied a currentless ! 

 basin: some object on the southern j 

 extremity of this basin attracted my ! 

 attention — it was impossible to forai ' 

 any idea what it could be, and ani- i 

 matins' the crew to increase the rate j 

 of paddlins-, shortly afterwards we 

 were opposite the object which had | 

 raised my curiosity — a vegetaMe \ 

 wonder ! ' All calaniities were for- i 

 gotten : 1 felt as a botanist, and felt ' 

 myself rewarded. A ^ig-antic leaf, ; 

 from five to six feet in diameter, i 

 salver-shaped, with a broad rim of a 

 lig-ht gi'een above, and a vivid crim- ' 

 son below, resting- upon the water ; 

 quite in character with the wonderful 



leaf was the luxuriant flower, con- 

 sisting: of many hundred petals, pass- 

 ing: in alternate tints from pure 

 white to rose and pink. The smooth 

 water was covered with them ; T 

 rowed from one to another, and ol - 

 seiwed always something- new to ad- 

 mire. The leaf on its surface is of a 

 brig-ht g-reen. in form orbiculate, with 

 this exception opposite its ELxis, 

 where it is slightly bent in ; its dia- 

 meter measured from five to six feet ; 

 around the marg-in extended a rim, 

 about three to ^five inches high, on 

 the inside lig-ht g-reen, hke the sur- 

 face of the leaf ; on the outside, like 

 the leaf's lower part, of a bright 

 crimson. The stem of the flower is 

 an inch thick near the calyx, and is 

 studded with sharp elastic prickles, 

 about three-quarters of an inch in 

 leng-th. The calyx is four-leaved, 

 each upwards of seven inches in 

 leugth, and three in breadth at the 

 base ; they are thick, white inside, 

 reddish brown and prickly outside. 

 The diameter of the calyx is twelve 

 or thirteen inches ; on it rests the 

 magnificent flower, v. hich, when fully 

 developed, covers completely the 

 calyx with its hundred petals. Allien 

 it first opens it is white with pink in 

 the middle, which spreads over the 

 whole flower the more it advances in 

 ag-e, and it is in general found the 

 next day of a pink colour : as if to 

 enhance its beauty, it is sweet- 

 scented : like others' of its tribe, it 

 possesses a fleshy disk, and petals 

 and stamens pass gradually into each 

 other, and many petaloid leaves may 

 be observed, wliich have vestiges of 

 an anther. \Ve met them afterwards 

 frequently, and the higher we ad- 

 vanced the more gigantic they be- 

 came : we measured' a leaf, which 

 was sLx feet five inches in diameter, 

 its rim five and a half inches high, 

 and the flower across fifteen inches." 



YELLOW. 



Plumier's Limnocharis. {Limnocharis \ 

 Plumierii.) Flowers from June to 

 November, in rich mould. Seeds. 



Humboldt's Limnocharis. ( Limtio- 

 cJiaris Humholdiii.) Flowers from 

 June to November, in rich mould. 

 Seeds. 



Yellow Sacred Bean. {Xehonbium lu- 

 teum.) Flowers from June to Au- 



gust, in rich mould. Division of the 

 root. 



Floating Jussioea. {Jusaicea nafans.) 

 Flowers from August to September, 

 in rich mould. Cuttings. 



Pitcher-leaf. ( Nepenthes phyllam- 

 phora.) FiOwers in July and Au- 

 gust, in peat and loam. Seeds. 



