is between four and five and twenty inches high.- Flowers 
sessile ; tube obsoletely three-cornered, pale-green, four inches 
and a quarter long: lacinie linear, an inch and half longer _ 
than the tube, the whole length of the corolla being ten inches ;_ 
they expand wider than in any other species of Pancratium; 
leaving the funnel-shaped nectary or crown quite exposed, 
whence the name: erown rather more than an inch and 
quarter long, regularly pointed between each stamen: style 
rises nearly four inches above the crown. lowers in the 
specimen ten, expanding by pairs, according to a regular and 
remarkable arrangement, of which Mr. Hergerr sent. a 
sketch, omitted by the draughtsman; but may be easily 
understood, by placing the tips of the four fingers of both 
hands together, to represent the eight flower-buds in the cir- 
cumference, and bringing both thumbs in a line between the 
fore or first, and hitle or fourth fingers, to represent the two 
central flowers. ‘The expansion of the first pair will then be 
marked by the second finger of the right-hand and the third 
of the left; the second pair by the second finger of the left- 
hand and the third of the right; the third pair by the first of 
the left-hand and the fourth of the right ; the fourth pair by 
the first of the right-hand and the fourth of the left ; and the 
central pair, which open last, by the thumbs. 
It is possible that this may be the patens of Repovre and 
Ker, but we have not ventured to fix it as such; because 
that is described as having leaves very much narrower than — 
- those of caribeum, and flowers more powerfully. scented ; 
whereas the former, in our plant, were nearly of the same 
width as those of caribeum, and the scent was weaker than 
in any other of the related species. > 2 
Mr.-Ker, in his Monograph on Pancratium (Journal of 
Science and Arts, v. 3. p. 326) has referred our distichwm, 
No. 1879, to Pancratium littorale ; but, if so, there is little 
or no dependence to be put upon the comparative length of 
the tube and laciniz, the former being said to be twice the 
length of the latter in littorale ; whereas in distichwm they 
are of the same length; the tube in the one decayed flower, 
in the figure, being inadvertently lengthened to get the upper 
part within the prescribed limits of the plate. Lee ae 
- Native country unknown. Flowers regularly in Novem- 
ber. Produces few offsets, and is, therefore, not readily 
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