narrower, and lingulate-lanceolate, with a ihort petiole about 

 half the width of the lamina ; an umbel with more flowers and 

 more compact, a ftreakletted green tube twice fhorter than the 

 limb, a narrower crown without the two contiguous teeth in 

 each interftamineous finus, a fphacelately membranous flower- 

 fheath, and a much ftronger fragrance, more like that of 

 Vanilla. Said to be a native of Guiana. Our drawing was 

 taken from a plant that flowered in Oclober laft, in Mr. Vere's 

 hothoufe at Kenlington-Gore. G. 



NOTE. 

 Pancratium carib/EUM. No. 826. 



In the fecond edition of the Hortus Kewenfis, the above 

 fpecifk title is laid up in a kind of abeyance, the right to it 

 being declared to reft between Mr. Salisbury's fragrant 

 fpectofum and amcenum. Whether our plant is the fragrans of that 

 gentleman, as we have prefumed in the above-quoted article, 

 or not, we mail not pretend to decide. But we can have no 

 reafon to doubt its being the fpecies reprefented in the two 

 engravings quoted by Linn it us, as the fynonyms of his cari- 

 htcum ; to which Brown and Sloan e, for any thing they con- 

 tain beyond the habitat, mull have been quoted nearly at 

 random. It has moreover the traditionary proof of having been 

 known by that name in all our gardens from the days of its firft 

 inftitution as a Linnean fpecies to the prefent. The following 

 fynonyms may be added to thofe already to be found in the 

 Number above cited, where the obfervation fubjoined to the 

 fynonymy mould be expunged. 



Pancratium fragrans. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 219. 

 P. fpectofum. Liliaceh a Redout e, tab. 156/ (exclufis fynonytms.) 

 P. dedinatum. Jacq. Stirp. Selefi. Amer. Hift. 51. tab. 102. Hort, 

 Vindob. g. 11, tab. 10. 



We mould obferve, however, that it has the thickly ftrJ ate 

 tube to the corolla, which Mr. Salisbury attributes to his 

 amcenum, as one of the diftinclions of that fpecies from his 



fragrans s fo that we may have, after every attention we could 

 give his defcriptions, ftill have miftaken his plants. Of bis 



fpeao/um, already publifhed in our work, there can be no 



doubt. G. 



