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of the Asiatic section, and insufficient acquaintance with the 
fruit and stamens of Canariense, I wish to postpone deciding 
whether the seminal difference between Illyricum and Mari- 
timum is absolute or not, especially as I have no opportunity 
of re-examining the style and stamens of Maritimum. I am 
inclined however to think that it is, and that there are suffi- 
cient symptomatic features to indicate the diversity. 
5. Malabathricum. — This plant is only known from 
Rheede’s Hort. Malab. where it is called by the native name 
Catulli-pola. Mr. Ker quotes it as synonymous to Verecun- 
dum, which he calls 3-4-flowered. I have never known or 
heard that the flowers of that species exceed three, and it 
was only known to Dr. Roxburgh as bearing either two or 
three, to which he particularly limited it by his name tri- 
florum ; but Rheede described his plant as having from seven 
to eight. Rheede says that its fructification is similar to that 
of a Crinum, and he gives a very correct representation of 
a Crinum seed ; and adds that the seed of Catulli-pola is 
whitish, with a whitish watery flesh, and a watery taste. If 
this account be true, and without some grounds I cannot 
reject such a positive assertion, though he is often incorrect, 
the Asiatic species must be of a different genus, which I 
should call, as proposed many years ago, Tiaranthus, follow- 
ing the idea of Mr. Salisbury when he changed the name 
Zeylanicum without cause to Tiarreflorum. 1 have vainly 
attempted to obtain seed of any Asiatic species. Dr. Wallich 
should try to procure this Catulli-pola from the Malabar 
coast. It is stated by Rheede to grow in sandy places, but 
he does not say on the sea-side. Whether it should be called 
a polyanthous variety of Verecundum, or a distinct species, 
I cannot judge without seeing the plant, and knowing how it 
agrees in other respects. Very little reliance can be placed 
on the figures of Rheede. He did not always consider the 
difference between a peduncle and a tube. 
6. Verecundum is abundant in the meadows near the 
river in the vicinity of Calcutta, but Dr. Carey could never 
send me a seed of it, and answered that he had never seen 
one. Whether the plant only perfects its seeds in a cooler 
situation, from whence they may be brought down by the 
floods, or my worthy friend did not inquire beyond the limits 
of his own garden, I know not, but, though I wrote several 
times on the subject, I could obtain no account of the seed 
of any oriental species. This plant is very difficult to culti- 
