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the tube. Stamens incurved, scarcely longer than the 
divisions of thegibbous campanulate-twelve-toothed nec- 
tary. ' 
_ A native of the Moluccas, from whence the roots 
were brought to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta in-—~ 
1798. Itisin blossom about the beginning of the rains. 
Leaves radical, narrow-lanceolate, deep green, and 
smooth on both sides ; length about twelve ffiches, and 
Jess than one in breadth. 
Scapes much shorter than the leaves, and even short- 
er than the tube of the corol, compressed, one flowered. 
Flowers large, pure white, fragrant. Corol ; tube pale 
green, cylindric, a little furrowed, about six inches long. 
Filaments incurved, and very little longer than the divisi- 
ons of the nectary. Anthers large. 
3. P. biflorum. R. : 
Leaves linear-cuneate. Spathe from three'to four-leav- 
ed, two or three flowered. Coro! with a long, slender, three- 
sided tube and linear segments of the same length. Sinu- 
ses of the nectary erose. Filaments length of the nectary, 
A native of India, but scarce. Flowering time in the 
Botanic Garden at Calcutta, the rainy season, 
Leaves froin four to eight, bifarious, erect, flat, linearly 
wedge-shaped, rather obtuse, smooth on both sides, slight- 
ly reticulated with transverse green veins ; length about 
twelve inches, by one broad. Scape shorter than the 
leaves, erect, smooth, a little compressed, supporting two 
or three, large, pure white, faintly fragrant flowers. 
Spathe three or fuur-leaved, two-flowered ; leaflets of va- 
rious sizes and linear. Corol ; tube pale whitish green, 
three-sided, slender, from three to four inches long, divi- 
sions of the border linear, first expanding, then recurved, 
about as long as the tube.. Nectary broad funnel-shaped, 
Scarcely one third the length of the lacinize of the corol, — ie s 
ee between the filaments erose. Filaments cape oe 
