No. 274. 
PAN: CRATIUM MEXICANUM, 
Class. Order, 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Although this bulb was cultivated by 
Miller in 1752, it is still scarce, and to be 
seen in very few collections, having been 
for along time quite lost in this country. 
Our plants were received about three years 
since from America; and in the month of 
February they flowered: it should be kept in 
the stove, and potted in sandy loam. The 
last a few days, and are slightly fragrant: it 
multiplies itself by offsets, which are thrown 
up at some distance from the bulb, in which 
it differs from the rest of this genus, which 
increase by dividing close: it does not 
retain its leaves, as most of the others do, 
the whole year; these die away in the latter 
part of the summer, and come up the be- 
ginning of winter, before the flowers. 
