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and tube subcylindric, inside rugose, about four inches 
long. Segments of the border linear-lanceolate, rather 
shorter than the tube. Filaments ascending, coloured, 
nearly as long as the segments of the corol. Anthers 
incumbent, brown. Germ oblong, three-celled, each con- 
taining many (from eight to sixteen) ovula attached, or ra- 
ther immersed in the margin of their vertically oblong pa- 
rietal receptacles. Style as long as the stamina, above 
the tube coloured. Stigma small, three-lobed. Pericar- 
pium ( Berry) subrotund, from one to two inches in dia- 
meter according to the number of seeds, swelled out — 
where the seeds are lodged, crumbling away, or other- 
_ wise decaying. Seeds from one to eight or ten, shape and 
size varying according to the number. 
6. C. lorifolium. R. , : 
Bulb cylindrically-ovate. Leaves very long, thong- 
shaped, margins scarcely scabrous. Umbels with about 
twenty pedicelled regular flowers. 
A native of Pegu, from thence introduced by the Rev. 
F. Carey, into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta» where it 
flowers about the close ofthe rains. It has immenselylong, 
weak, recumbentleaves, the breadth of which at the base, 
the broadest part, is rather under two inches, and the 
length five feet. The bulbs thrive well, and produce ’ 
abundance of suckers, by which it is very readily multi- 
plied. : ! iyity Fone ee! 
7. C. Sumatranum. R. 5 
“Stemless. Leaves \inear-lanceolate, straight, stiff, chat. 
nelled, margins hispid. . Umbel from ten to sige fescss de ; 
ered, flowers subsessile, regular. 
- A native of the interior parts of Sumatra, from thence - 
Dr. Charles Campbell sent the plants to the Botanic Gar- _ 
den at Calcutta in 1801, where they thrive well reset 
Som at different. periods ofthe year, tA 
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