HOETICULTURAL JOURNAL. 143 
" The same plant was also noticed in a communication by Dr. Lindley." 
Some one furnished Schomburgk's account and plate to the Magazine of 
Zoology and Botany, as an extract of a letter from Dr. Schomburgh (so the 
name is given) to the Botanical Society of London, 17th October, 1837. It 
appears in the 11th number, perhaps published in November, 1837, but the 
volume bears the date 1838. No indication of the period of publication of 
the numbers of this volume is given, a neglect which cannot be satisfactorily 
accounted for. This article is entitled "YII. Dr, Robert H. Schomburgh'' s 
description of Victoria Regina, Gray." The accompanying plate 12 is 
lettered "Victoria Regalis, Schomburgh." 
In the extract given, Schomburgk gives no name whatever, so that if 
V. Regalis is due to him, or V. Regina to Mr. Gray, I am unable to give 
the citations with the limited bibliographical materials at my command. It 
is to be regretted that authority, volume, page, and date, should not have 
been given in Mr. J. Fiske Allen's beautiful work. 
The proper designation, therefore, of this fine plant is Victoria Amazonica 
(Poeppig). 
Steudel, in his Nomenclator Botanicus, 1840, gives Victoria to Schom- 
burgk, and also regalis ; but the plant is left with Posppig's name, Euryale 
amazonica ; and Endlicher (Genera Plantarum) credits Lindley, " Monograph, 
London, 1837, c. icon. fol. max. Bot. Reg. 1838, App. 13," works to which 
I have not access. To the last author is probably due the third British 
name, Victoria regia, and, what is of much more importance, the determi- 
nation of its generic characters. But in justice to Poeppig, none of these 
three specific names can stand. The name of amazonica is, by its classical 
associations, and the locality it reveals, singularly appropriate. Victoria, 
as the name of a Roman goddess, has been chosen with equal felicity, 
unless, indeed, it be rendered ridiculous by association with a name more 
illustrious in peace than in war. 
S. S. HALDEMAN. 
Delaware College, May 12, 1854. 
