No. 558. 
PANCRATI UM DECLINATUM *. 
Class, Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This species is not so much known in 
this country as on the continent; if seems 
to be the same as Jacquin’s distichum, 
which Willdenow has evidently confounded 
with amcenum, from which its difference is 
sufficiently marked. The leaves are near 
two feet in length, and their insertion into 
the bulb is almost distich-wise: the scape 
is about a foot in height, ancipital, and 
bearing eight or nine flowers: the limb of 
the corolla is twice the length of the tube ; 
the nectary is short, having six stamenifer- 
ous teeth, without any intermediate ones. 
It is a native of Brazil, and with us must 
be kept at all times in the stove: it is slow 
of increase, seldom throwing up any off- 
sets: its soil should be sandy loam. 
* Our figure is reduced to one-third the natural 
size, 
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