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Callithauma? — Bulb oblong cylindrical ; leaves ensiform; 
limb patent; crown equal to, filaments exceeding, 
the limb. Not sufficiently known to enable a perfect 
generic character to be made, but seemingly distinct 
from all other known plants. 
1. Viridiflorum. — Pancratium viridiflorum. Flor. Per. 
3. 55. Bulb a palm and half long; leaves long, 
flat, suberect, diverging ; scape the height of a 
man, or 6 feet ; spathe with a white deciduous 
bracte to each flower ; flowers 4-5, large, beau- - 
tiful, entirely emerald green ; cup enormous ; seg- 
ments of the limb acuminate. Plentiful in the 
woods of Huassahuassi, and on the headlands and 
stony places of Palca in Peru. Ruiz’s specimens 
of this marvellous plant were lost by shipwreck. It 
is barely possible that it may be an Ismene, but 
very improbable. 
2? Spathulatum.— Bulb large, round; leaves thick, 
coriaceous, dark green, petiolated, spatulate, de- 
ciduous ; scape said to be a yard high ; flowers 
large, green. Imported by Richard Harrison, Esq. 
having been dug from a mountain said to be 500 
miles east of Truxillo, but the distance is probably 
exaggerated. It is probably of a separate genus, 
intermediate between this plant and Leperiza, with 
which it agrees in the form of the leaf. It has 
dwindled in many collections, but thrives pretty 
well with me in loam. It has not flowered in Eu- 
rope, nor has any specimen of the flower been re- 
ceived. It seems to like heat. 
57. Calostemma. — Bulb ovate ; leaves linear lorate ; umbel 
many-flowered, pedunculated ; germen by defect 1- 
celled ; ovules 2-3 ; tube cylindrical ; limb funnel- 
shaped ; crown often irregularly slit ; filaments short, 
erect; anthers small, erect, attached near the base; 
style attenuated; stigma simple, small; seeds 1-2, 
green, fleshy, flattened on one side by contact. Na- 
tives of Australia. 
1. Purpureum. — Bot. Reg. 5. 422. Leaves about 15 
inches, scape 16-20 flowered ; peduncles about an 
inch long, bracteate ; spathe 3-valved ; tube 
limb half an inch, purple, midribs continued down 
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