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of the nectary as enormous, considering the tube to be part 
thereof ; but he does not say that the expansion of the limb 
was very great. The main part of the length must there- 
fore be occupied by the tube, perhaps nine inches long and 
the cup three, which would very well entitle the flower to 
the name Maximum. 
A. Pancratium, by name iEgyptiacum, is mentioned in 
an old catalogue of the plants at Mr. Loddiges’ nursery. I 
learn from him that the plant so designated was brought by 
a gentleman from Egypt, and appeared to him to be a Pan- 
cratium, but perished without having flowered, and no me- 
morandum was preserved concerning it. It cannot there- 
fore be ascertained what it was, and the name must be 
expunged. 
54. Hymenocallis. — Bulb roundish ; tube cylindrical, slen- 
derer than the germen ; perianth equal, patent, flac- 
cid ; crown more or less patent (funnel-shaped or 
rotate) ; filaments equal ; anthers long, pendulous, 
attached at one-third of their length from the base, 
tipping after expansion base-upwards ; pollen rough ; 
style long, flaccid, declined; stigma minutely fimbri- 
ated, roundish ; ovules oblong, 2-8 in a cell, erect; 
seeds large, oblong, green. Occidental plants with 
leaves usually persistent, the scape flattened 2- angular, 
curved downward in seeding , flowers 1?-21, white, very 
fragrant, pollen orange or deep yellow ; germen sessile, 
except II. speciosa. 
A. Petiolata. Leaves petiolate. 
1. Speciosa. — Breviter pedunculata. 
Var. 1. Longe petiolata. — P. speciosum. Cup dentate. 
Bot. Mag. 35. 1453. Red. lil. 412. P. amcenum. 
Lodd. B. C. 286. 
Var. 2. Humilis, petiolo brevi. — Petiole short, leaves 
more recumbent. 
Var. 3. Augustifolia, vix petiolata. — Leaves narrower, 
scarcely petiolated. 
Var. 4. Fragrans, tubo breviore. — Red. lil. 413. Tube 
4 inches long, limb 4|, cup not dentate, but in- 
dented between the filaments. 
This beautiful species is distinguishable by the short 
peduncle from all others that are known to us ; and, agree- 
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