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+ PANCRATIUM canariense. 
. Canary Sea-daffodil, or Pancratium, 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu, gen. 54. Dio. II. Germén in- 
ferum. ' 
AMARYLLIDES.' Brown prod. 296. ` Sect. I. Radix 
* bulbosa. `. Flores spathacei, umbellati, raró. solitarii. 
PANCRATIUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 43. 
. Div. Stamina spatiis alternis dentium interjecta. 
P. canariense, multifiorum ; - foliis- bifariis lanceolato-loratis, glaucius- 
«ctilis, obtüsulis, tubo bis-brêviore limbo, filamentis lacinulas corona 
12-fidsb tion exsuperantibus, 
Bulbus globosus. Folia plura infra cylindraceo-vaginantia, indè erecto- 
patentia, loratè elongata, subinvoluto-canaliculata, deorsdin subarctata, obtuso» 
acuminata, obsbleté nervosa, sesquipedalia vel altiora, maximum į- 
"unciam lala. ^ Scapus lateralie, compressus, glaucus, parim brevior foliis. 
Spatha lanceolata, cuspidata, superans unculos. Umbella 7-8:fora, 
erecia, alba, remissè odora, unculis .angulosis flori pen? agualibus. 
Germ. parüm brevius tubo, lineari-oblongum, triquetrum, duplo crassius pe- 
dunculo; ovulis numercsis in loculamento enga baaria Cor. reigu- 
uncialés vel parüm altior ; tubus virens, angustus, sezsulcus, drigaeter ; lim 
bus stellatus, infra breve adnalus corona, laciniis lanceolatis, t- 
dine. duplá limbi, extimis 3 Jatioribus: corona $ parte brevior limbo, turbi- 
nata, patula, inciso-dentata, dentibus 12 angulari-acuminatis agualibus in- 
tegerrimis. Stam. conniventia, brevissima: anth. lutece, lunulatæ, vibrates, 
wguales vel longiores filamentis, Stylus triquetro-filiformis, inclinatus, cure 
vus, firkulus, equans florem: stigma puncium obtusum parüm tumidum. 
l Considering thie moderate extent of the Canary Islands, 
and the frequency with which they have been investigated 
.by intelligent and industrious botanists from all quarters of 
Europe; 'we did not expect to find that they possessed a 
native liliäceóus plant, so conspicuous as the present, which 
remained to be registered. But we can find no record 
of it within the chronicles of Botany; nor in any Her- 
barium to which we have access. The specimen that 
afforded the drawing, bloomed this autumn in the hothouse 
of Mr. Griffin, at Lambeth. 
It is indigenous of the island distinguished in the 
e of the Grand Canary; and was brought 
cluster by the nam the winter of 1815 by Dr. C. Schmidt, 
into this country in y Y 
a gentleman new associated to the expedition to the Niger. 
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