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0/i /7<c Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



1 may be reproached for changing my own name of this 

 species, but that now adopted invariably distinguishes it 

 from both the following. It was cultivated by Mr. Philip 

 Miller, at Chelsea, in 1730, who sent it to Dr. Milner of 

 Leeds, and my plant was an off-set from his, after it had 

 been removed to Temple Newsham. It grows wild in rather 

 moist places of the Island of Jamaica, and thrives on a shelf 

 of the stove, if plentifully supplied with water. 



HymenocallisFragrans. MSS. Pancratium Fragrans 

 Linn. Trans, v. 2. p. 72. t. 1 J. Pancratium foliis, &c. Trew. 

 PL Select. p.G.t. 28. 



The bulbs of this species were sent to me first in 1782, 

 from the Island of Barbadoes; but I have since learnt, 

 that they were brought there from Surinam, where the 

 plant grows wild. It is now very common in our stoves, and 

 sometimes ripens seeds, encreasing likewise abundantly by 

 off-sets. 



Hymenocallis Speciosa. MSS. Pancratium speciosum. 

 Decand. in PL LiL n. 156. cum Ic.l-KerinBot.Mag.n. 1453. 

 cum Ic. bond.— Linn, Tram. v.2.p.7S. t. 12.—Linn.JiLMSS. 

 Narcissus totus albus latifolius, &c. Mart. Dec. p. 27. cum Ic. 

 Pancratium Americanum foliis latissimis, &c. Ph. Mill. Diet, 

 ed. 1. v. 2. n. 5. 



I cannot positively ascertain where this species grows wild, 

 but Mr. Philip Miller says in the Bahama Islands. It was 

 not in the Chelsea garden however for many years, nor m any 

 other that I know of, except the late Marchioness of Rock- 

 ingham's, from whom I received my plant. By taking great 

 pains to fecundate the stigma, I obtained several of its bulbi- 

 form seeds every year, while I resided at Chapel Allerton, 



