duced each time the plant blooms, while the old ones do not 

 decay in proportion, at leatt in our (loves ; /cape rather fhorter 

 than the foliage, compreffed, ancipital, ftreakletted; fpathe iwo 

 inches or more in length, white-green ; umbel 7 — 15-flowered, 

 intermixed with bracles as long as the fpathe but narrower ; 

 flowers pure white, nearly nine inches long, very ornamental, 

 extremely fragrant, efpecially in the evening, retaining their 

 fcent for many months when dried ; the cells of the germen in 

 all the fpecimens we examined were difpermous, as in Pan- 

 cratium amboinenfe ; No. 1419. We do not know a more 

 defirable ftove-plant than this. Has been confounded in the 

 late edition of the Hortus Kewenfis with the caribaum of 

 No. 826 of the prefent work, which had been miltaken by 

 Redoute in his Liliaceesfor the prefent fpecies, andpublilhed 

 by him under the appellation offpeciofum. G. 



