No. 809. 
PANCRATIUM PEDIALE, + 
Class, Order. 
HEXANDRIA  MONOGYNIA. 
This elegant plant, we believe, is a native 
of Brazil. We received it some time since 
from our friend Mr. Shepherd, of Liverpool, 
who introduced it and flowered it first. It 
` has received its name from the circumstance 
of each flower being full a foot in length. 
The leaves of our plant were about two feet 
and a half long, and the flower stem nearly 
the same height. It was in bloom in the 
month of August. Like most of the genus 
it is very fragrant. It requires the stove, 
and increases itself sometimes by offsets, 
as also by seeds, which will perfect them. 
selves here. The soil should be sandy 
peat and loam, 
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