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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



with salt water; for it grows so near the sea, as to be covered 

 with spray in every storm. 



Pancratium Verecundum. Soland. in Hort. Kew. ed. 1. 

 v. p. 412. CatulliPola. Rheede. Hort. Mai. v. 11. p. 79- 1. 40. 



pessimd. 



On the late Mr. Dryander's suggestion, which I then 

 dared not to oppose, I joined this species to Pancratium 

 Maritimum, in the second volume of the Linnean Transactions. 

 It is however exceedingly distinct, and flowered in Mr. Wood- 

 ford's stove not long before he left SpringwelL The soil 

 sent along with it was black vegetable mould, and he be- 

 lieved that it came from the Island of Ceylon. 



Pancratium Tiar/eflorum. Par. Lond. n. 86. cumlc. 

 Pancratium zeylanicum. Linn. Sp.Pl ed.V.p. 418. Narcissus 

 zeylanicus,&c. Commel.Hort.Amst.vl.p.75.t.35. Narcissus 

 zeylanicus flore albo 6-gono ordorato. Herm. Hort. Lugd.p. 

 691 . cum Ic. Lilium indicum. Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. 6. p. 171- 

 t. 70. f. 2. 



This plant grows wild abundantly in the Island of Ceylon, 

 also near Malacca, where it ornaments the sides of the 

 roads with its fragrant flowers, during the month of Novem- 

 ber. Here it requires the constant heat of a stove, and to 

 be planted in light rich earth, with which treatment it ri- 

 pened seeds, last October, in the Dowager Lady De Clif- 

 ford's collection. 



Ismene Crinifolia. MSS. Pancratium Amancaes. Ker 

 in Bot. Mag. n. 1224. cum Ic. Narcissus Amancaes. Ruiz, et 

 Pavon Fl. Per. v. 3. p. 53. t. 283. a. 



Introduced from Brasil in 1808 by Mr. Brandt, and 

 grows wild plentifully on the hills near Lima, if it is really 



