[Illustration] PLATE DII. LOBELIA SURINAMENSIS; _Var. flore rubro_. _Surinam Lobelia; Red-flowered Variety._ CLASS V. ORDER I. _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 5-fidus. Corolla 1-petala, 5-fida, irregularis. Antheræ cohærentes. Capsula infera, 2-seu 3-locularis. EMPALEMENT 5-cleft. Blossom 1 petal, irregular, 5-cleft. Chives adhering together. Capsule beneath, 2, sometimes 3 loculaments. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. LOBELIA caule suffruticoso: foliis oblongis, glabris, serratis: floribus axillaribus, pedunculatis: corollis læte rubris, pentagonis, curvatis, tubulosis, supra basin impressis. Habitat in Surinamo. LOBELIA with a shrubby stem: leaves oblong, smooth, and sawed: flowers axillary, pedunculated: blossoms of a bright red colour, five-sided, curved, and tubular, indented just above the base. Native of Surinam. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom spread open. 3. The chives spread open. 4. The seed-bud and pointal. 5. Seed-bud cut transversely. A fine living specimen of this elegant variety of the Lobelia Surinamensis was communicated to the author by A. B. Lambert, esq., who received it amongst a large collection of hot-house plants presented to him by Lord Seaforth, and collected by that nobleman in the West Indies whilst Governor of the Island of Barbadoes. The plant from which this figure was delineated was near four feet high, with numerous branches terminated by buds and flowers, whose brilliance enlivening the gloomy month of November, may justly rank it as one of the greatest ornaments of the hot-stove. [Illustration] PLATE DIII. NYMPHÆA RUBRA. _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. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A chive. 2. Seed-bud and pointal.