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Pancratium Littorale (,3) f Lesser 

 Sea-Shore Pancratium, 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia, 



.Generic Characler.— -Fid. N um - 718. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms* 



PANCRATIUM littorale foliis bifariis lanceolato-loratis \ 

 laciniis tubo brevioribus ; corona ftamim- 

 lega his quinquies breviore, inter (lamina 

 parum elevata, finuata, aut obtufe ^tque 

 obfolete erofa. G. 



PANCRATIUM littorale. J acq. Amer. 99. /. 179. /. 94* 

 Hort. Vindb. v. 3. p. 41. /. 75. tlort. Kew. 

 1. 412- JSaliJb. in Linn. Tranf. 2. 74. cuni 



fig.' mud. sp. pi. 2. p. 42. 



PANCRATIUM foliis enfiformibus, fpatha multiflora; flo- 

 ribus magnis candidis. Trcw. Ehret. p, 6*. 

 t. 27. 

 (|3) tbbocoroll^e breviore quam in (a) 4-unciali; limbi lacinii$ 

 tubo parum brevioribus, necltario bafi adnatis. Bryatid. MSS. 



This variety flowered, and was probably introduced into the 

 garden of the late Dr. Pitcairn, about 1782; but from 

 whence it came we are not now able to afcertain ; (a) was 

 found by Jacquin near Carthagena in the Ifland of Tierra 

 Bomba, growing plentifully on the fea fhore : (|3) we have 

 never found figured in any work, but there are feveral goo4 

 figures of (a), as may be feen by the above fynonymy. 



Requires to be kept in a ftove, where it will flower twice 

 a year. It is to be obferved that the crown bears the fame 

 proportion to the fegments in both varieties, although they 

 differ fo much in the length of the tube. The fpecific characler 

 contains all the defcription neceffary to diftinguifh it from the 

 fpecies at prefent known to us ; an entirely new one of which 

 has lately flowered at Kew, brought from Cayenne ; it has 

 broad glofly leaves, exceeding long flowers, and the fmalleu 

 crown of any we ever yet have feen. Q. 



