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AMARYLLIDACE^E. 
the tube and germen; 12 triangular teeth to the 
cup between the filaments ; cup often slit in one 
or more places. 
2. Liiteiun. — Bot. Reg. 5. 421. Leaves narrower, 
flowers yellow with green ribs, and six purple 
spots at the base of the cup; cup with teeth as in 
Purpureum. 
3. Album. — Brown, prod. 298. Flowers white; teeth 
of the cup linear, emarginate. 
58. Vagaria. — Leaves linear-lorate ; umbel many-flowered, 
pedunculated ; germen roundly triangular, ob- 
long ; cup imperfect, filaments dentately winged 
on each side, inserted at the base of the limb ; limb 
patent ; filaments short, alternate ; anthers short 
(incumbent?) style tapering, a little bent; stigma 
small, slightly trifid. 
1. Parviflora. — Pancratium parviflorum. Red. lil. 8. 
471. Desfontaine’s Supp. Cat. Hort. Par. It is 
not known from whence this plant was introduced 
into the Parisian garden, where it produced its 
flower stem in the autumn from the centre of the 
old leaves, which appear to vaginate more than 
those of Calostemma, or, when the leaves had pre- 
viously decayed, before the autumnal growth of 
young foliage. Having seen the cup of Calo- 
stemma irregularly slit to the base, though that 
feature was not observed by Dr. Brown, I felt some 
doubt whether it might be regularly slit in another 
species, and in complete ignorance of the ovarium 
and fruit, as well as the native country, of this 
plant, there seemed to be a possibility that it 
might be an Australian Calostemma, differing in 
that respect, in a wide-expanded limb, a style a 
little curved, and minute splitting of the stigma. 
It is however very improbable that an unknown 
Australian plant should have made its appearance, 
at the period when this bulb was introduced, in the 
Parisian garden, and there only, without any re- 
cord concerning its introduction ; and it is much 
more probable that it will be found to be a native 
of Spain or Egypt, or some other country border- 
ing on the Mediterranean ; in which case it is so 
