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PANCRATIUM DISTICHUM. | ‘FAN-LEAVED 
PANcRATIUM. | 
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Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Petala 6: nectario 12-fido. Stam. nectario imposita. 
Specific Character. : 
Pancratium distichum ; spatha subsexflora, nectarii infundi-. 
buliformis dentibus interstamineis irregularibus laciniis 
revolutis tubum zequantibus, foliis lanceolato-loratis stri- 
atis distichis. 
Our drawing of this plant was taken in August 1814, at 
Messrs. Lez and Kennepy’s, where it went by the name of 
mexicanum, with which species it in no respect corresponds, 
if the figure quoted from Dii.entus is a representation of the 
one intended. i: 
In September last, the Hon. Wittiam Herserr kindly 
transmitted to us a specimen and particular description of 
the same species, which he considers to be hitherto unde- 
scribed. The bulb came from Rio de Janeiro, but, perhaps, 
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may not be a native of that country. Mr. Herserr considers 
it as most nearly allied to caribeum and rotatum. Bi 
‘The leaves grow exactly distichwise, spreading out like a — 
fan, in which character it differs from all the known species - 
of Pancratium ; for even in rotatum, the leaves are not so 
regularly distich as in this, on which account we have given 
it the name distichum. The lower leaves are seventeen — 
inches long, the upper ones gradually diminish; they are — 
linear-lanceolate or thong-like, of a tough consistence, from 
an inch to an inch and half wide at the broadest part, which 
is rather nearer the point than the base, where it is some- — 
what contrasted. They differ from the leaves of littorale, 
says Mr. Hersert, in being much narrower, of a more uni- 
form width, regular fan-shaped arrangement, paler colour, 
and less fleshy substance : from those of rotatum, in a’ : 
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