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THE UNVERSAL HERBAL; 



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with care will become blowing roots in one year : if these 

 are kept constantly in the tan-bed, they will put out offsets 

 front the roots, and thrive as well as in their native Countries. 



2. Pancratium Mexicana; Mexican Pancratium. Spathe 

 two-flowered ; stem or scape a long span in height, round, 

 forked towards the top, or dividing into two peduncles, with 

 two oblong, tender, membranaceous, greenish leaflets, and 

 terminated each with a white flower, divided to the very base 

 into six narrow segments. Native of Mexico. 



3. Pancratium Caribaeum ; Caribbean Pancratium. Spathe 

 many-flowered ; leaves lanceolate ; segments of the corolla 

 linear, and longer than the tube. The stalk rises about a foot 

 high, then divides like a fork into small footstalks or rather 

 tubes, which are narrow, green, and at first encompassed by 

 a thin spathe, which withers, and opens to give way to the 

 flowers, which are white and scentless. Dr. Browne says, it 

 grows wild in most parts of Jamaica, and the other sugar 

 islands, with large leaves and numerous flowers, seldom rising 

 above sixteen or eighteen inches in height. Dr. Houstoun 

 imported some of the roots from Vera Cruz. Native of the 

 VVest Indies. 



4. Pancratium Maritimum ; Sea Pancratium, Spathe 

 many-flowered; petals flat; leaves tongue-shaped; root large, 

 bulbous, coated, of an oblong form, covered with a dark 

 skin ; the leaves are shaped like a tongue ; they are more 

 than a foot long, and one inch broad, of a deep green, six 

 or seven of them rising together from the same root, encom- 

 passed at bottom with a sheath : between these arises the 

 stalk, which is a foot and half long, naked, sustaining at the 

 top six or eight white flowers, inclosed in a sheath, which 

 withers, and opens on the side to make way for the flowers 

 to come out. Native of the south of Europe, on the sea- 

 coasts of Spain and Sicily. It roust be planted in a very 

 warm border, and screened from severe frost, otherwise it 

 will not live through the winter in England. 



5. Pancratium Declinatum. Spathe many-flowered: scftpe 

 compressed, ancipital ; segments of the corollas a little longer 

 than the tube ; leaves tongue-shaped ; flowers sweet, white, 

 sessile, almost half a foot in diameter. It is cultivated in 

 the gardens of Martinico ; probably a native of Cayenne. 



6. Pancratium Carolinianum ; Carolina Pancratium. 

 Spathe many-flowered ; leaves linear ; stamina the length of 

 the nectary. This has a roundish bulbous root, covered 

 with a light brown skin, from which arise several dark green 

 leaves about a foot long ; among these comes out a thick 

 stalk about nine inches high, sustaining six or seven white 

 flowers, with very narrow petals, having large bell-shaped 

 nectaria or cups deeply indented on their brims. Native of 

 Jamaica and Carolina. 



7. Pancratium Illyricum; Starry Pancratium. Spathe 

 many-flowered; leaves ensiform; stamina longer than the 

 nectary. This has a large bulb, covered with a dark skin, 

 sending out many thick strong fibres, striking deep in the 

 ground ; flowers white, six or seven in number. Native of 

 the south of Europe. It grows wild on the sandy coast of 

 the isle of Ree near Rochelle, according to Morison. This 

 sort is hardy, and will thrive through the winter in the 

 full ground: in very severe seasons the surface should 

 be covered with tanner's bark, sea-coal ashes, straw, or 

 pease-haulm. It is propagated either by oftsets from the 

 roots, or from seeds. The offsets will flower very strong the 

 second year, whereas those which are raised from seeds sel- 

 dom flower in less than five years. The roots should not be 

 removed oftener than every third year if they are expected to 

 flower strong. The best time to transplant them is in the 

 beginning of October, soon after their leaves decay. They 



should not be kept long out of the ground, for, as they do 

 not lose their fibres every year, if they be dried it greatly 

 weakens the roots. It loves a light sandy toil, and a shel- 

 tered situation ; the roots should be planted nine inches or a 

 foot asunder every way, and five inches deep in the ground. 

 If the plants be propagated by seeds, they should be sown 

 in pots filled with light earth, soon after they are ripe : these 

 pots should be placed under a hot-bed frame in winter, but 

 the glasses must be taken off every day in mild weather. 

 The young roots will require a little protection in the winter, 

 till they have obtained strength. See Narcissus, for further 

 particulars of their management. 



8. Pancratium Littorale; Tall Pancratium. Spathe many- 

 flowered ; leaves lanceolate, linear, bifarious ; segments of 

 the corolla linear, shorter than the tube; nectary almost 

 entire; scape two feet high, very much compressed", an inch 

 wide on one side, ancipital, shining, green with a glaucous 

 bloom, axillary, erect, or sometimes declining ; flowers hand- 

 some, spreading, sessile at the top of the scape, having an 

 agreeable aromatic odour ; bulb the same size as the first 

 species. It is found in abundance on the sandy coast of the 

 island Tierra Bomba near Carthagena. 



9. Pancratium Verecundum; Narcissus-leaved Pancratium. 

 Spathe many-flowered ; leaves linear ; segments of the corolla 

 lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; the sinuses of the seg- 

 ments of the nectary staminiferous ; scape erect, compressed, 

 a foot high ; flowers fragrant, on three-cornered pedicels, 

 scarcely half an inch long. They appear from June to Au- 

 gust. Native of the East Indies. 



10. Pancratium Amboinense ; Broad-leaved Pancratium. 

 Spathe many-flowered; leaves ovate, nerved, petioled ; bulb 

 oblong, white, sending out several thick fleshy fibres, which 

 strike downward ; stalk thick, round, succulent, rising nearly 

 two feet high, sustaining at the top several white flowers, 

 shaped like those of the other "sorts, but the petals are 

 broader, the tube is shorter, and the stamina are not so long 

 as the petals. The remarkably broad heart-shaped leaves, 

 of a pale gi"een, with many strong ribs, abundantly distin- 

 guish this species. Native of Amboyna. 



11. Pancratium Americanum ; White Lily. Leaves nearly 

 a foot and half long, and little more than an inch broad, dark 

 green, and hollowed in the middle, like the keel of a boat ; 

 stalks nearly two feet high, thick, succulent, sustaining at 

 the top eight or ten white flowers, shaped like those of Mariti- 

 mum, but of a purer white, and having a strong sweet odour, 

 like that of Balsam of Peru : the flowers seldom continue 

 longer than three or four days, and in very hot -weather not 

 so long. Native of the West India Islands. 



12. Pancratium Latifolium. This is not often distinguished 

 from the preceding, though it differs from it in the leaves 

 being much larger and broader, for they are nearly two feet 

 long, and more than three inches broad, and hollowed like 

 the keel of a boat, as in the other ; the flowers also are larger, 

 the petals longer, and the scent weaker. It flowers through- 

 out the year. Native of the West Indies, 



13. Pancratium Rotatum ; Large-crowned Pancratium. 

 Spathes multiflorous ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; nectaries 

 hypocrateriform, tubulose beneath ; teeth six, staminiferous ; 

 intermediate ones inciso-dentate; stamina as long again as 

 the nectary. Found on the sea-coast, from Virginia to Flo- 

 rida ; and flowers in July. 



Pandanus; a genus of the class Dioecia, order Monandria. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Male. Calix: spathes alternate, 

 sessile, serrate, spiny; spadix decompound, naked; perianth 

 proper, none. Corolla : none. Stamina : filamenta very many, 

 solitary, placed scatteringly on the outer ramifications of the 



