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the Flora of British India vi. 286, the existence of specimens from the Deccan 
collected by  Rottler. Apparently по one has sent it from the Malay Archipelago 
since Мт. C. Smith originally gave it to Dr. Roxburgh, | 
The plant is well worthy of more attention horticulturally than it has hitherto 
received. 
There is something unsatisfactory regarding the citations under this species. 
Herbert, who had seen specimens of this name in the Banksian Herbarium—apparently 
original Roxburghian ones from the Moluccas—has given a figure (Amaryllid, t, 42, 
f. 2) which agrees well with the plant originally figured by Roxburgh as to leaf, 
spathe, length of tube and form of staminal cup, but differs very markedly in not 
showing the large 2-fid interstaminal teeth on the margin of the cup. Sir J. D. 
Hooker has suggested that Herbert's plant may rather be P. biforum Roxb. than P. 
longiflorum, but has cited it under both species. It is on the whole more probable that 
Herbert’s drawing is intended for Roxburgh's P. longiflorum and that a mistake has 
been made as regards the month of the staminal tube. Hooker has without question 
referred Р, cambayense Herb. to Р. longiflorum but as regards this citation there is 
the same difficulty in connection with the mouth of the staminal tube, 'with the 
further difficulty that the leaves of Р. cambayense are obtuse. We have therefore 
omitted the citation Р, cambayense Herb. altogether, and only cite the P. longiflorum 
of Herbert as doubtfully referable here, 
Prate 89.—Pancratium longiflorum Rozh. 1, plant; 2, flower; 8, portion of perianth-tuhe; 4, 
transverse section of perianth-tube; 5, ovary, in vertical section, with part of perianth-tube and 
style; 6, transverse section of ovary; 7, young fruit,—all of natural size, and all from. a living 
plant received from Lucknow and grown in the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 
G. K.; D. P. 
PLATE 90. 
97. Свүртосовүкв Cruppasiana Pratn in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1хіх. 9. 174 (1900). 
Natural order Атоійеғ. 
An aquatic herb, with tuberous, stoloniferous rootstock; Jeaves linear-lanceolate, 12—20 
cm. long, '75—1 сш. wide, rather abruptly acute, lower fourth to third sheathing ; 
midrib distinct; flowers on very short scapes; tube of spathe narrow, 8 сш, long, 
limb shorter than tube, 3°25 em. long, lanceolate-acuminate, not twisted, purplish and 
with irregular but very distinct transverse folds, 9:5 mm, apart, crossing the whole 
of the inner surface. 
Uprer Burma: Kachin Hills, by the Keju River, near Sima; Prain’s Collector 1 
This very distinct species is in habit a small edition of С. ciliata; it thus does 
not closely resemble any other Indian species. The limb of the spathe is however 
longer and narrower in proportion to the tube and the tube is not fimbriate as in с. 
ciliata, It has, moreover, many transverse rugae аз in 6, spiralis Fisch.; 0. spiralis, 
however, has very different leaves and а spathe with a twisted limb, this limb being 
longer than the tube. 
Ann. Roy, Bor. Garb. Carc, Vor. ІХ, 
