of a much harder texture, less flesliy, paler coloured, more 
strongly nerved, sharper and not at all spathula-shaped at the 
point, more. regularly distich, and much less erect. From 
those of caribeum they differ in being harder, thicker, longer, 
and narrower, in having their greatest breadth nearer the 
point, and in being arranged regularly distichwise, instead of 
clustering irregularly. ‘The tube of the corolla is the same 
length as the lacinie of the limb, each from four to four 
and a half inches long. The nectarium or crown is more 
funnel-shaped than in rotatum, and of smaller’ dimensions ; 
itis unequally toothed, and is not extended along the fila- 
ments, which are twice its length, considering them as be-— 
ginning from the bottom of the nectarium, though connate 
with it; or equal in length, if considered as beginning from 
its margin. 
Pancratrium distichum is much hardier than rotatum, and 
not nearly so liable to suffer from. wet on the leaves, which 
is so fatal to the latter ; but otherwise, Mr. Herserr informs > 
us, that the bulb of rotatum is not apt to perish after flower- 
ing (see No. 827) nor does it produce abundance of offsets, 
a plant in his possession having produced but one in four 
years, in which space it has blossomed several times ; but 
when the mother bulb by accident perishes, it may, as often 
pe di in similar circumstances, throw out a numerous 
spring. 
The honourable WiittAm Hergert having long been a 
careful observer of these plants under cultivation, we pay the 
highest respect to his opinion; and, for the foregoing ob- 
ret Mates we acknowledge ourselves entirely indebted to 
‘im. 
Whether the comparative length of the tube with the 
limb of the corolla be a character altogether to be depended — 
upon, our figure even may lead to some doubt, for though 
in the perfect blossom these are equal in length, yet in the © 
faded flower, the tube appears to have shot out to a greater 
length ; in which state it may have approached too er ar 
perhaps, to Pancratium littorale, «. a variety not published 
in the Botanical Magazine. : eee 
