LXKAVE 
PANCRATIUM TIAREFLORUM. 
Tiara-flowered Pancratium. 
Ordinem Naturalem et Characterem Generis vide sub No. 84. 
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* Fasciculus 1-florus. 
P, foliorum laminis viridibus, vix pollicem latis, lineari-lanceolatis : corolla tubo perangusto ; Jaciniis 
tubo multo longioribus, recurvo-horizontalibus ; corone Jaciniis profunde 2-dentatis: filamentis 
valde incurvis. 
Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p- 418.P.spatha &c. Linn. Fi. Zeyl. p. 126. Narcissus Zeylanicus 
p. 75. t. 35. Narcissus Zeylanicus flore albo 6-gono odorato, Herm. Hort. 
h. Herb. Amb. 2. 6. p- 161. t. 70. f. 2 
P. Zeylanicum. Linn. 
&c. Comm. Hort. v. 
Del. 
Lugd. p. 691. cum Ic. in p- 693. Lilium Indicum. Rump 
Sponte nascentem in Ins. Ceylon, ad margines viarum, legit J. G. KoENtG. 
Floret apud nos Julio. 
A very scarce species at present in the collections about London, and communicated by THOMAS 
‘VANS, Esq. of Stepney. The figure in ComMELIN’s work, J am told, is excellent: all the others 
hitherto published are bad. 
As I did not see the plant till long after the flower was past, I can only add that the Jeaves are 
green with a slight glaucous tinge U erneath, about an inch wide in the proadest part, somew at 
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rowly keeled. The flowers do not entirely lose their frag dried, and it a to 
differ from every species yet discovered, in having filaments so much incury as to nearly ht 
the centre, and resemble a royal tiara. Catulli pola of Hortus Malabaricus quoted for our m ant nj 
ae belongs to P. Verecundum of SOLANDER, which [ now believe is a distinct species from ©+ 
aritimum, 
