Pontederia with the seed-buds above: leaves arrow-shaped, obtuse, or pointed: flowers in crowded umbels, of a blue colour.
Native of the East Indies.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A blossom spread open.
2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
3. The plant in miniature.
This handsome aquatic is a native of the East Indies, and figured in Col. Syms’s Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, under the title of Pontederia dilatata. On examining some plants in the hot-house of J. Vere, esq. (whence our figure was taken) we observed so much variation in them, that we are inclined to think the P. hastata of Dr. Roxburgh’s Coromandel Plants represents (from a weak plant) the same species our figure delineates.[Pg 117]
PLATE CCCCXCI.
GARDENIA RADICANS.
Rooting Gardenia.