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strong heat and sunshine so much, that it will perhaps suc- 
ceed best in the open ground, taking up the bulbs when the 
leaves decay. It seems to thrive better in a fertile loam than 
in light soil. I expect, from the increased size of my prin- 
cipal bulb, to see it flower next spring. 
47. Leperiza. — Bulb roundish ; (coats imbricating ?) leaves 
petiolated, wide oval, aestival; scape aestival ; pe- 
duncles curved ; germen ovate, three-furrowed, pen- 
dulous ; tube short ; filaments decurrent in the cup ; 
anthers incumbent ; style straight ; stigma obtuse ; 
capsule ovate, three-furrowed ; seeds many, small, 
oblong, roundish (black ?) 
1. Latifolia. — Pancratium latifolium. Flor. Per. 3. 54. 
284. Leaves about four, narrower than in Urceo- 
lina ; scape 8-9 inches ; spathe 5-6 valved, or with 
spathe-like bractes ; flowers about five, li inch 
long, reddish yellow tipped with green ; cup 
toothed between the filaments; filaments a little, 
style much, exceeding the limb. Grows in the 
shady and damp woods of the Peruvian Andes 
near Vitoc, on the hills and lands of Tarma. 
The extraordinary bulb, represented in the plate of the 
Flor. Per. with opposite coats like the scales of a lilium, and 
the sinuosity of the filaments, are not warranted by Ruiz’s 
description, and are probably false, like many other things 
in those engravings. If that be the case, it will be separated 
from Urceolina by the cup and tube only, and, if Urceolina 
should prove to agree with it in those respects, Leperiza will 
merge in that genus. Its habit seems, by Ruiz’s account, to 
be precisely similar. 
48. Carpodetes. — Bulb oblong ; leaves vaginating, attenu- 
ated upwards ; spathe one-leaved, peduncles erect ; 
germen oblong, constricted in the middle ; tube cy- 
lindrical, slender, curved (enlarged upwards?) limb 
regular (cup short?) filaments straight, alternately 
equal ; style straight ; stigma obtuse ; capsule obo- 
vate, three-furrowed, constricted in the middle ; seeds 
large. In steep broken ground near Obragillo, in 
the province of Canta in Peru ; called Chihuanhuaita 
by the natives. 
1. Recurvata. — Pancratium recurvatum. Flor. Per. 3. 
54. 285. Bulb purplish with black spots and a long 
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