Tage ae Oe 
_ Yorkshire, has paid great attention to this genus ; a) 
gentleman we are indebted, not only for the specimen from 
-Fespecting: it, ‘which. we are able to 
( 1941 ) 
PANCRATIUM EXPANSUM. EXPANDED- 
-FLOWERED PANCRATIUM. 7 
Se ROK 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Petala 6. Nectario 6—12-fido. Stam. nectario imposita. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
-Pancratium expansum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis striatis ir- 
regulariter circumpositis, laciniis patentissimis tubo lon- 
“ gioribus, corone sinubus unidentatis. 
Paycrartum: patens. Ker in Journal of Science and the Arts, 
v. 3. p. 329. ? Redouté Liliac. 7. fol. 414. ? 
Paycratium declinatum. Redouté Liliac. 6, t. 380. quoad 
— tconem., ? 
"EAD 3S Se Te : : ot eT. _— T of ei tthe oe 
.. » =e ’ = - 
‘Tt is extremely difficult. t to find ce distinguishing 
characters beigenee some of the species of Pancratium; and, 
_ perhaps, it is only from cultivation, or by having an opporsupity 
of comparing the living specimens together, that any. cer 
can be PR The Hon. Wituiam Herserr, of , fe tis 
Which our drawing 
s taken, iv. or gncgt ofthe aaationbre 
adduce. 
; ong anger affinity pith ase caribeum. Jn 
int leaves grow irregularly, not. < 
less acute, of a duller green, and more "atte il they, are 
a foot and a half long, and about two inches and a quarter 
wide at the broadest part ; they rise successively throughout 
the year, and not ae ne: as in speciosum, The i 
