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AMAIIYLLIDACEAE. 
flowers 10, subsessile ; tube 3|, of which 2^ are 
persistent; limb 3 inches; style j an inch ; filaments 
an inch shorter than the limb ; cells with 5 ovules. 
These plants increase by the bulb splitting in halves. 
They are very thirsty while growing in heat, and I think 
flower most freely when they are left dry in the winter. Dr. 
Carey sent me a bulb he had received from Rangoon, which 
he had named Verecundum, stating that, though it approached 
very near to Amoenum in foliage, it was distinct in its inflores- 
cence. I have not seen its flower, and am not satisfied of its 
diversity, or sufficiently acquainted with its peculiarities, to 
think it right to give it a separate place as a species. 
Var. 3. Verecundum. — Amcenum, var. 2. Herb. app. 
Bulbo sphaerico foliis humifusis saturate viridibus, 
lacunosis, obtusioribus, margine laevi. 
23. Humile. — Bot. Mag. 53. 2636. Leaves short, acute, 
pitted ; flowers pedunculated. A very small spe- 
cies from the extreme East ; brought to England in 
an Indiaman by Capt. Craigie, but it was not ascer- 
tained where it was taken in. Not known at Cal- 
cutta. 
24. Pratense. — Bulbo ovato vel sphasrico, foliis loratis 
flaccide recumbentibus, umbella sessili multiflora. 
In pratis siccis prope flumina proveniens, inunda- 
tionis annuae tempestate florens umbella natante. 
Var. 1. Longifolium. — Roxburgh. Ker J. Sc. and A. 
Leaves 2-3 feet long, 2 inches wide ; flowers sub- 
sessile 8-12, white; tube 4 inches, limb a little 
shorter ; filaments and style nearly equal with the 
limb; anthers before inversion brown. Bengal. 
Floruit Altaclarae in Britannia A. D. 1822, floribus 
10 ante expansionem nutantibus, spatha majore non 
marcescente, germine subsessili, in medio umbellae 
semunciam pedunculato, tubo viridi graciliore q. 
in lorifolio, 4 unciali, laciniis 3 unc. vix semunc. 
latis acutioribus, stylo filamentis et limbo breviori- 
bus superne rubris f unc. longiore, debili, recum- 
bente, rubro, stigmate minus quam in lorifolio 
fimbriato, antheris ante inversionem fuscis, scapo 
rigidiore erecto, germine longiore crassiore, um- 
bella diflfusiore. 
