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PANCRATIUM guianense 



Cayemie Sea-DoffodiL 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 



NaL ord. Narcissi, Jussieu gen. 54, Dh. IL Germ* infenim. 



Amarifllide^ Brown prod, 296- Sect. L 

 PANCRATIUM. Supr^ voL l.fj. 43. 



Div. Flora sessUes v. iubscssUes: Umbo radiator dentiius senis corona 



ttamin^erU. 

 F* guianeme^ sessili-multifloruro ; foliis longd petiolaUs ovBli-oblongis, 



abrupt^ acuniinatis; spatha valvis 4 decussato-oppositifl erectis; tubo 



plurtmilai longiore limbOt coronft angusti 4-plo breviore laciiiiia lioea* 



ribusj repando^inuata sinubus integerrimis. 

 Pancratium. Exemplar in Herb* Banks, bulbo GuianS ttUato et paucis 



abhinc annU Horto Kewemifloridos decerptum. 



Fol. saturate viridia, ^etiolata; lamina ehngafo-ovalis utrtnaue aite^ 

 nuata^ cuspidata, costa paulb promhienle, suboctouncialis v. uUrA latitudine 

 triunciali, in sicco visa cuithrato-venosa : ^eiio\usangustus, SA^undalii^ tubtri' 

 guetro^analicalatus, carind obtusii. Scapus anceps. Spatha ^^alvzs, valvis 

 herbaceo-albicarUibuSy oblon^is^ longissimum subtrtunciahbu$ : omheWA sessilis^ 

 subS'fiora ; floribus candidts^ septenis centraiem arcH ambientibus, in exlensum 

 H'Unciaies; tubus chloroleucus, semipedalis^v. uUrdf rectiusctUus^ teresy oh* 

 soleti angulosuSf estriaiust crassitndine Jere duplA penn^e corvintSy supri 

 tmgustior atque mani/estius trigonus; limha^ steliattu, patentissimus, lactnns 

 linearibus 4-5 uncialibus lattiudine 2-3-/tnfan, longi acuminatis, acutis, in* 

 ^ent^ versHs arctaiis et canaliculatigy interioribus sublatioributf nunc into 

 margine crispu/is. Corona angusta^ diametro vix majore tubi^ sexcostatop 

 4f-pk brevior limbo indeque ommnb libera^ sinubus interstamineis integerrimiip 

 curvo lent excisis. FiL virentia^ gracUHma^ getaceo^i/brmiat i parte v. 

 circ^ breviora limbo: anth. viteUino-fiaincantes.. lineares^ angustisstmtBt ob^ 

 liquo*incumbentest signioideo^x^e. Stylus viridity aqualis corolla, S-plo 

 crassior JUamentisi stig. capiteUatnm. Germ, breve, eUipticum, S-gonum: 

 ovula 8-10 in singula ImuIo^ oblonga^ ascendentia^ imo an^do loculi biseriu' 

 ilmajixa. 



A species, which while only known to us through the 

 specimen in the Banksian Herbarium, we had set down in a 

 review of this genus, in the Journal of Science and the Arts, 

 for the same as the undulatum of Messrs. Humboldt and 

 Bonpland, a species known to us solely by description from 

 the dried subject. But the comparison of our plant in a 

 fresh state with this description, has induced us to separate 

 the two, though manifestly very near akin. ITie crown in 

 undulatum is described with a tooth in each interstamiueous 



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