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the tube. Stamens incurved, scarcely longer than the 

 divisions of the gibbous campanulate- twelve-toothed nec- 

 tary. 



A native of the Moluccas, from whence the roots 

 were brought to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta in 

 1798. It is in blossom about the beginning of the rains. 



Leaves radical, narrow-lanceolate, deep green, and 

 smooth on both sides ; length about twelve inches, and 

 less 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. bifloriim. R. 



Leaves linear-cuneate. Spathe from three to four-leav- 

 ed, two or three flowered. Corol 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 from 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 four-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 lacinias of the corol. 

 Sinuses betw^een the filaments erose. Filaments about as 



