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young ones tipped with red, scape purple, 2|-3 feet 
high, flowers 12-20, deep purple, declining on the 
edges to white. 
Var. 2. Herbertianum. — Wallich. p. 39. t. 145. Bulb 
and column not red; leaves 14-2 feet long, 4 inches 
wide, attenuatedly acuminate, much undulated, 
with a secondary undulation on the margin, dark 
green, very glaucous underneath (not so in the 
plate), scape purple on one side, flowers 12-16 fra- 
grant, deep purple edged with white. Flowers in 
the rainy seasons in ditches near Rangoon in com- 
pany with Zeylanicum. 
Var. 3. Latifolium. — Bulbo et caudice uti in Zeylanico, 
minus saturate rubro ; foliis undulatis margine un~ 
dulatiore, ortu rubro non apiculatis, scapo viridi 
breviore, floribus Zeylanico pallidioribus. It may 
be distinguished from Zeylanicum by the secon- 
dary undulation of the margins of the leaves, and 
the absence of the red tip to the young leaves, as 
also by its green scape and paler flowers. The 
plant figured in the Bot. Reg. is not Latifolium. 
It is very scarce in the Calcutta gardens ; Dr. 
Carey informed me a few years ago that he had 
but two bulbs of it, and although it ripened seed, 
they rarely vegetated with him, and when they 
did, from the number of species collected together 
in his garden, he was no longer sure of obtaining 
the true plant. Bulbs of Zeylanicum, and others 
not genuine, have been repeatedly sent to England 
from the Botanic Garden under the name of Lati- 
folium. Dr. Roxburgh omits in his description to 
mention the style which is not prolonged as in the 
plant figured in the Bot. Reg., but he says the leaf 
tapers to a blunt point, which does not agree either 
with that plant or with his own Latifolium, which 
I have had in cultivation a great many years, and 
still preserve. The plant compared with it under 
the name Lineatum, by Dr. Roxburgh, as quoted 
there, is C. Zeylanicum. Native of Bengal ; the 
true plant will, perhaps, not be found now in the 
gardens of Calcutta. Floruit. Spofforthioe, A.D. 
1828. Scapo 16.| unc. basi purpurasc. germ, ob- 
longo subscss. f unc. pallide viridi-purpurasc. flo- 
