This fine red aquatic is so nearly allied to the Nymphæa Lotus, that many consider it as only a variety; but it certainly is specifically distinct in the colour of the flowers, as the term variety can only be applicable to those lighter or darker shades of colour that may occasionally vary by culture or climate. This Nymphæa is no doubt, like the N. Lotus, considered as a sacred plant; but probably that species may be more highly estimated, from the emblematical purity of its fine white petals. As four or five more figures will include every species of this fine section of aquatics at present known, we shall not omit any of them, and intend, in the course of the ensuing summer, to give a figure of that most magnificent of all the species the N. Nelumbo. Our figure was made from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, esq. raised in a tub of water placed in a common hot-bed; where, notwithstanding its circumscribed situation, it flowered for the time in this kingdom, under the care of Mr. Anderson the botanic gardener, who informs me that this species is capable of great increase from the root, whilst the N. Lotus affords only one solitary plant. [Illustration] PLATE DIV. SOLANUM SEAFORTHIANUM. _Seaforth’s Solanum._ CLASS V. ORDER I. _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 5-fidus. Corolla rotata, limbo 5-fido, patente: tubo brevi. Antheræ oblongæ, conniventes, apice poris geminis, dehiscentes. Stigma obtusum. Bacca sub-rotunda. EMPALEMENT 5-cleft. Blossom wheel-shaped. Border 5-cleft, spreading. Tube short. Chives oblong, leaning together, with holes in pairs at the point, and splitting. Stigma obtuse. Berry nearly round. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. SOLANUM caule inermi, scandente, herbaceo: foliis pinnatis, undulatis: junioribus lanceolatis: floribus in racemo, aut ramo cymoso, ab axillis foliorum: corollis carneis. NIGHTSHADE with an unarmed stem, climbing and herbaceous. Leaves pinnated, and waved: the younger ones lance-shaped. Flowers grow in a raceme, or cymose branch, from the axillæ of the leaves. Blossom flesh-colour. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Empalement and pointal, summit magnified. 2. A blossom spread open. Throughout this extended genus there are but few which possess attractions equal to this new and undescribed species of Solanum. It was introduced by Lord Seaforth from the West Indies; and although brought from so warm a climate, it succeeds best in the conservatory. It approaches nearest in its general appearance to the S. radicans of Linnæus, but Mr. Lambert informs me that it is not at all inclined to root, like that species. The specimen which our figure represents was sent to us in fine bloom by Mr. J. Milne, botanic gardener. [Illustration] PLATE DV. ORNITHOGALUM FLAVISSIMUM. _Yellow-flowered Star of Bethlehem._ CLASS VI. ORDER I.