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panded. Flowers superior, tubular, pedicellated, white ; 
segments of the perianth ovate-oblong, or oblong-lanceo- 
late, rather plane, erect-patent, bluntish, somewhat shorter 
than the tube. Stamens six, inserted into the orifice of the 
tube, shorter than the limb of the perianth : filaments dilat- 
ed at the base, approaching closely, so as to appear in the | 
form of a corona, with alternate sterile teeth, (occasionally 
bilobed) not quite the length of those bearing the anthers. 
Style erect, almost twice the length of the stamens, but 
somewhat shorter than the segments of the perianth. Stigma 
distinctly three-lobed. 
The following may serve as distinctive Characters of the species at 
present known; and to each is added, its botanical history. _ 
1. E. sylvestris ; (meliiis amboinensis,) umbella multiflora, (circiter 
~ 10—12) perianthii laciniis spathulato-lanceolatis parum undulatis pa-~ 
tentibus, staminum dentibus lateralibus introrsum curvatis, intermedio 
tri- quadruplo brevioribus. 
Narcissus amboinensis, &c. Commel. Hort. v. 1. p. 77. t. 39. 
Cxpa sylvestris. Rumph. Amb. v. 6. p. 160. t. 70. f. 1. 
Pancratium amboinense. Linn. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 46. Blume 
Enumer. Pl. Jav.1. p. 25. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. p. 46. Bot. 
Mag. t.1419. Redouté Lil. t. 384. 
Pancrativum nervifolium. Salish. Paradis. t. 84. 
Crinum nervosum. L’ Herit. Sert. Angl. p.8. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 
302, Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 47. 
Amaryuuis rotundifolia. Lamarck Encycl. 1. p. 124. 
Prorpuys amboinensis. Herbert in Bot. Mag. App. (1821) p. 42. 
Evurycies sylvestris. Salisb. in Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 1. p. 337. 
Schult. Syst. Veget. 7. p. 909. 
Evryctes amboinensis. Loud. Encycl. Pl. p. 242. 
Has. In insula Amboyna ad oras sylvarum. G. E. Rumph ; 
atque in ins. Java, in sylvis vastis montium Panangounan, sub tegmine 
Tectone, abundé. 1793. J. J. Labillardiére. - 
Ozs. Flores triunciales et wltra. Tubus laciniis parum longior. 
Bases coroneformes staminum semisexfide. Stamina stylum equan- 
tia, perianthio breviora. Stigma leviter subtrilobum. _ 
In the present day, rather a rare plant in our collections ; although 
an old inhabitant of our gardens, having been cultivated at Chelsea by 
Miter, who probably obtained it from Amsterdam, to which once 
celebrated Botanic Garden, it was introduced direct from Java, in the 
days of the Comme tines, almost a century and a half since. 
2. E. australis ; (meliis Aingii,) umbella suboctoflora, perianthii 
laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acutiusculis undulatis erecto-patentibus, sta- 
minum denticulis lateralibus acutis erectis, intermedio sexies brevior1- 
us. 
Pancrativum australasicum. Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 715. 
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