long. It is generally larger than asiaticum, but not so y large 
as amabile the finest flower we know of this natural order. 
A stove plant. Has been known in our collections, ac- 
cording to Donn’s Hortus cantabrigiensis, from the year 
1790; ‘Dut we are not informed by whom it was introduced, 
Multiplied both by off-sets, and bulbiform seed; of gpey 
cultivation, and flowers freely. 
The specimen from which the drawing was made was 
“sent us from the nursery of Messrs. Colville, King’s Road, 
Chelsea. It was small and few flowered, comparatively 
with many others. 
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« The pistil, dissected from the corolla. 
