PANCRATIUM amboinenfe. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. 1. 41 g* 



(exclufa var. /3. cum Trewii Synon.). Mill. Diel. ed. 8. n. 5. 



Hort. Kew. 1. 413. ed. 2. 2. 220. Bauer's Sketches in Cod. 



Bank/. IVtlld. Sp. PL 2. 45. 

 P. ncrvijolium. Parad. Londin. tab. 84. 



P. fpatha multiflora, fol. ovatis nervofis. Mill. Bicl. ed. 7. n. 5. 

 CRINUM nervofum. L'Herit. Sert. Angl. 8. Gmel.SyJl. Nat. 



7. 538. IVilld. Sp. PI. 2. 47. 

 NARCISSUS amboinenfis, folio latiflimo rotundo, floribus 



niveis inodoris. Comm. Hort. Amjl. 1. 77. tab. 39. Rudb. 



Ely/. 2. 238./ 17. 

 C/EPA fylveftris. Rumph. Amboin. 6. 160. tab. jo.f. 1. 



Desc. Bulb fabglobofe, integuments pale-brown; lamina 

 of the leaves bright green, fometimes little lefs than a foot 

 broad, nerves on the upper furface deprelTed-lineate, on the 

 lower prominent-coftate, periphery deflex ; Jpathe whitifh ; 

 germen green mining, fometimes with three white prominent 

 fillets, corolla pure white, greenifh towards the bafe of the 

 tube, about three inches long. Requires to be kept in the 

 itove, where it blooms about July. Mr. Brown, in his very 

 valuable Prodromus of the Flora of New-Holland, obferves 

 that this fpecies differs from its congeners in having a germen 

 with difpermous cells, as well as by a crown that is lix-parted 

 to the bafe. In our plant this lafi: charaQer was not prefent, 

 the dilated bafes of the filaments cohering for nearly half the 

 length of the crown they formed ; fuch feems alfo to have been 

 the cafe in the fpecimen delineated, accompanied with a dif- 

 feciion of the corolla, by Mr. Bauer, in the firft volume of 

 his " Sketches" in the Bankfian Collection. We entirely agree 

 with the author of the Paradifus Londinenfis, in the opinion, that 

 this is the fpecies defcribed and figured by Rumphius, although 

 there is no appearance of the fmall ftaminilegous crown in his 

 engraving. Monf. L'Heritier exprefsly notices the dilated 

 bafes of the filaments in his defcription of Crinum nervofum, 

 citing Rumphius's figure for a fynonym ; and we fufpect that 

 he was induced to feparate his plant from the amboinenfe of 

 Linnaeus, merely on account of that author's having added 

 Trew's figure, as his variety p. ; a figure which undoubtedly 

 belongs to a very diftinft fpecies from his variety «. ; which is 

 our prefent plant. The Bankfian Herbarium contains a very 

 perfed fpecimen of our fpecies from the Ifland Amboyna, 

 which had been received from Mr. Christopher Smith. 



Our drawing was made at Mr. Vere's garden, Kenfington- 

 Core. The plant from which Commelin's plate was taker* 

 was brought to the Amfterdam garden from Batavia. 



L'Heritier gives the Philippine Iflands as the native 

 place of his plant. G. 



