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1. Patentes. — Flowers patent. 
A. Inclinatce. — Buds inclined. 
1. Bulbo longe columnar i, folds dinar icantibus, umbelld nu- 
merosd pedunculatd. Asiatics, et Australasicce. — Long 
columnar root-stem , leaves spreading , flowers numerous, 
pedunculated. Asiatic and Australian. 
1. Asiaticum. — Loculis monospermis. Cells with one 
ovule. Native of Asia. Perianth white ; end of 
the style and filaments red. 
Var. 1. Toxicarium. — Roxb. Hort. Beng. Asiaticum. 
Bot. Mag. 27. 1073. Leaves acute, tube under 
3 inches, limb rather longer; style and peduncle 
short. A tender plant, and one of the least orna- 
mental. A great bulb of this plant surrounded 
with offsets was brought from Florida by Fraser, 
who assured me that he had dug it up on the sea- 
side. It must have been washed on shore from 
some ship that was bringing it from the east. 
Subvar. Minor. — Ex Sumatra. A small variety sent 
from Sumatra by Sir Stamford Raffles. Leaves 
acute. 
Var. 2. Bracteatum. — Subvar. 1. Brevifdlium. Bot. 
Reg. 4. 179. Jacq. H. Sch. 4. 495. Brevifolium. 
Hort. Beng. This plant is a native of Mauritius, 
very like Toxicarium in flower, but smaller, and 
with very blunt leaves. It is not more hracteate 
than other species, but the name, Bracteatum, has 
unfortunately the priority over one more appro- 
priate. 
Subvar. 2. Angustius. — An equally small plant, with 
much narrower leaves, but not less obtuse. Its 
natural abode is not known, but it had been in the 
stoves of this country, long before the introduction 
of the former. It is probably the Sundeep Island 
variety, which is of easier cultivation at Calcutta 
than the former ; and so is Angustius here. Both 
have cells with one ovule, and are closely allied to 
Toxicarium. I have seen the three ovules of this 
plant fertilized, one taking the lead and growing 
into the other cells, turning the umbilical cords 
which were between them to the outside, and by 
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