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Pancratium Rotatum. Large-Crowned 

 Pancratium. 



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Gfo/} # »i Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Fid. N um - 718. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



PANCRATIUM rotatum (feffiliflora) bulbo repenter foboli- 

 fero; foliis loratis, furf'um fublanceolatis 

 obtufulis, deorfum obtufe canaliculars ; 

 corona ftaminilega magna, hypocrateriformi- 

 campanulata, deorfum tubulofa, rotundato- 

 angulata, praemorfo-finuata, ultra ftaminum 

 medium protenfa. G. 



PANCRATIUM mexicanum. Micbaux Flor. Amer. Bor. 1. 

 188? Vix Linnaei, quando vel minimam 

 citatae Dillenianae tabulae atque adumbra- 

 tioni poflimus adjicere fidem. G. 



We are informed by Mr. Loddige, the Nurferyman at 

 Hackney, that this handfome fpecies is a native of Carolina, 

 and that he received it from thence fome time fince. If it 

 is Michaux's plant, of which we have fcarcely a doubt, he 

 tells us that it grows there in fuch {pots as are ufually at one 

 time or other of the year under water, and that in a wild 

 ftate it is conftantly two-flowered, but when cultivated from 

 two to five-flowered. 



Our drawing was taken at Mr. Woodford's; requires a 

 ftrong heat to make it thrive, and rich mould ; produces 

 abundance of offsets ; the nether bulb itfelf often perifhing 

 after producing the bloom. 



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