Red-flowered Nymphæa.
CLASS XIII. ORDER I.
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Corolla polypetala. Calyx 4-seu 5-phyllus. Bacca multilocularis, loculis polyspermis.
Blossom many-petalled. Empalement 4-or 5-leaved. Berry many-celled, with many seeds in each cell.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Nymphæa foliis sub-orbiculatis, irregulariter dentatis, glaberrimis: lobis approximatis: corollis rubris: radice battatis assimilatâ, et multiplicante in modum istius vegetabilis.
Nymphæa rubra. Roxb. MSS.
Nymphæa with nearly round leaves irregularly toothed, and very smooth, with the lobes approximating: blossom red: root resembling that of a potatoe, and increasing like that vegetable.