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vate here, though Dr. Carey said it was free and abundant 
at Calcutta. In the hothouse its leaves flag whenever the 
sun shines upon them, and the bulbs are apt to rot during 
the season of rest when kept dry in the stove. I have lost 
the species, and I imagine that it required an alluvial and 
stronger soil than I gave it, and that the bulbs should have 
been removed into a cooler place in the winter. They come 
over very sound, when sent from Calcutta. The scape is 
2-3-flowered ; the peduncles not half an inch long ; tube 2 
inches long according to Solander Hort. Kew., 3^ in my 
plants from Calcutta figured in the Bot. Reg., limb in both 
shorter than the tube ; cup with six interstamineous teeth ; 
leaves bright green, acute, f of an inch wide. 
7. Zeylanicum. — Scape one-flowered ; germen sessile ; 
tube about 1|- inch ; limb longer than the tube, the lower 
part adhering to the cup ; filaments exceeding the teeth of 
the cup by about the length of the cup and teeth ; leaves 
bright green, narrow-lanceolate, acute, narrower than those 
of Verecundum. Unless the flower varies more than I ima- 
gine it does, the cup and stamens are too long in the figure 
in the Bot. Reg. It is less difficult to cultivate than Vere- 
cundum, but very liable to perish here, and scarce in the 
gardens of Calcutta. 
8. Cambayense. — Specimina Herb. Banks. O — 1. ex 
montibus Cambay Ind. Orient, prope Guzzerat, in planitie 
arenosa. A. P. Hove. Bulbus subrotundus collo cylindrico, 
folia linearia obtusa ^ unciae latae, scapus ultra 4-uncialis, 
flos unicus sessilis, tubus gracilis 2f unc. limbus 2^ unc. 
stylus || unc. limbo brevior. There are many specimens of 
this plant in the Banks, herb, gathered by Hove on a sandy 
plain on the Cambay hills in the East Indies, near Guzze- 
rat. The specimens vary very little, and they are strongly 
distinguished from any species that has been described by 
their narrow linear obtuse leaves. The tube is much 
slenderer than that of Longiflorum. The entry in the 
Banks, herb, in Dryander’s writing, is as follows: — 
“ Pane, longiflorum fl. sessili solitario nectario duas tertias 
partes limbi excedente, laciniis limbi patentibus, limbo 
tubo longissimo breviore. Linn. fil . — P. maximum Forsk. ? 
— I believe this to be the same as P. Zeylanicum. If the 
different specimens from Koenig and Hove, together with 
Hove’s drawing, are compared with the figure in Com- 
melin, it will be found to vary very much as to the length 
