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and tube subcylindric, inside rugose, about four inches 

 long. Segments of the border linear lanceolate, rather 

 shorter than tl:e 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 ei«;ht 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. Pericarp 

 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 of the rains. It has immenselylong, 

 weak, recuQibentleaves, 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. 



7. C. Sumatranum. R. 



Stemless. Xgaues linear-lanceolate, straight, stiff, chan- 

 nelled, margins hispid. Umbel from ten to twenty-llow- 

 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, and blos- 

 som at diflerent periods of the year. 



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