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about two feet, pedunculated ; tube green, 1 j inch ; 
limb greenish without, white within, two inches; 
cup greenish and white, with deep green lines, 
U inch long, with bifid jagged lobes ; style equal 
to the limb. 
4. Nutans. — Pancratium. Bot. Mag. 38. 1561. Leaves 
erect, rather spatulate, scarcely vaginating ; 
flowers three or more ; germen sessile ; tube green, 
shorter than the limb ; limb near 2f long, white, 
equal to the style, f longer than the cup ; cup 
white, , dentate and jagged. I believe there is a 
mistake in the account of this plant having been 
received from Brazil ; at least, bulbs brought by 
Fraser from E. Florida, which were soon lost by 
planting them in peat and watering them when at 
rest, appeared to be this plant. I doubt whether 
Nutans is preserved in any European collection to 
this day. I have never seen its flower. 
Hybridse. 1. Spoffbrthise. Calathina-amancaes. Bot. Reg. 
20. 1665. Flore sulphureo. 
Absolute rest in winter is essential to this genus, which 
delights in very light sandy soil ; its cultivation is easy when 
those two requisites are observed. Amancaes seems to 
thrive best in pure white sand, at least in the vicinity of 
the bulb. I have flowered it in the open ground by putting 
a pot full of white sand with the bulbs into the border. Ca- 
lathina is less particular as to soil, and pedunculata is hardier 
than either, vegetates in a lower temperature, and flags 
sooner in hot weather. They should be planted in a border 
of light compost in April, and the bulbs must be taken up 
when the leaf is cut by frost in November or sooner, without 
breaking off the thick fleshy fibres which will endure through 
the winter after the bulbs are taken up. They must be put 
in a box or large pot, and covered with dry sand or earth, 
and kept quite dry till the following April or May. If 
Amancaes be set in the stove at the beginning of May, and 
watered, it will flower immediately, and should be removed 
into a greenhouse as soon as the first bud is ready to expand. 
The sulphur-coloured mule may be forced as easily. It is a 
beautiful plant, and has produced flowers in which the ex- 
pansion of the cup was 3g- inches, and of the limb 5^. Its 
ovules, three in a cell, are bold, and its pollen seems fertile. 
