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unlikely that an Australian genus should manifest 
itself there, that we may with safety assume that 
its fruit will approach to that of Pancratium rather 
than Calostemma : it is certainly not a Pancratium. 
The flowers are white within, and mainly green on 
the outside, approximating to those of Ornithoga- 
lum nutans in a kindfed order, and I suspect in 
fructification to P. Illyricum. It has some affinity 
to Eurycles. 
59. Eurycles. — Bulb ovate; leaves very wide, petiolated ; 
scape scarcely preceding the leaves ; spathe 3-valved; 
umbel many-flowered ; germen erect, cells nearly 
obsolete, 2-(rarely 3-)seeded ; tube cylindrical, angles 
obsolete; limb regular, alternate; segments equal; 
cup more frequently imperfect ; filaments diverging, 
inserted at the base of the limb, more or less winged, 
and often scarcely connected at the base by a mem- 
brane ; anthers short, affixed at the base ; style erect, 
cylindrical ; stigma small, fimbriated ; one ovule often 
erect, the other pendulous; seed with two thick fleshy 
integuments, the bulb usually protruding from the 
seed in the immature capsule ; capsule obovate, 3- 
ribbed, indehiscent; dissepiments decayed. 
1. Amboinensis. — Pancratium Bot. Mag. 1419. Cri- 
num nervosum L’Herit. S. A. S. Pancr. nervi- 
folium Parad. Lond. 84. Eurycles Salisb. Hort. 
Soc. Trans. Proiphys. Herb. App. Cepa sylvestris, 
Rumph. Amboin. 6. 160. t. 70. f. 1. Narcissus. 
Comm. H. Am. Rudb. Elys. 
This plant, a native of Amboyna and the Philippines, is 
subject to great variation of the crown. It was complete, 
though deeply cleft, in the specimens figured in the Bot. 
Mag. and Par. Lond. but was almost obsolete, the filaments 
being scarcely connected by a thin membrane at the base, in 
the plant cultivated by me ; the filaments, as Mr. Sweet 
asserts under Eurycles nuda, Hort. Sub. Lond. were not 
even winged in another variety that flowered at Colvill’s, 
which cannot, however, properly be separated as a species 
on that account solely, when we look to the intermediate 
variation. It is a stove plant, requiring rest in winter, and 
liable to rot if wet gets into the neck of the root. Ovules 
obovate, dehiscent at the top, with the embryo protruded. 
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