174. 
PANCRATIUM canariense. 
Canary Sea-daffodil, or Pancratium, 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nanersst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div, IT. Germen in- 
ferum. 
Amaryiupe®. Brown prod. 296. — Sect. I. Radix 
_ bulbosa. Flores spathacei, umbellati, rard solitari. 
PANCRATIUM, Supra vol. 1. fol. 43. 
Sor 
‘Div. Stamina spaiiis alternis dentium interjecta. 
P. canariense, multiflorum; foliis bifariis lanceolato-loratis, glaucius- 
culis, obtusulis, tubo bis ‘breviore limbo, filamentis lacinulas corone 
12-fide non exsuperantibus, y 
Bulbus globosus. Folia plura infra cylindraceo-vaginantia, indé erecto~ 
patentia, lorate elongata, subinvoluto-canaliculata, deorsim subarctata, obtuso- 
acuminata, obsoleté nervosa, sesquipedalia vel altiora, maximum sesqui- 
anciam lata. Scapus lateralis, compressus, glaucus, pariim brevior foliis. 
Spatha lanceolata, cuspidata,, aes pedunculos. Umbella 7-8-flora, 
erecta, alba, remiss? odora, pedunculis angulosis flori. pené equalibus. 
Germ. parim brevius tubo, lineari-oblongum, triquetrum, duplo crassius pe- 
dunculo; ovulis numerosis in loculamento singulo biseriatis. Cor. -sesquie 
uncialis vel parim altior ; tubus virens, angustus, sexsulcus, triqueter ; \im- 
bus stellatus, infra breve adnatus corone, laciniis angusté lanceolatis, longitu- 
dine dupld limbi, extimis 3 latioribus: corona %. parte brevior limbo, turbi- 
nata, patula, inciso-dentata, dentibus 12 angulari-acuminatis equalibus in- 
tegerrimis. Stam. conniventia, brevissima: anth. lutee, lunulate, vibrate, 
equales vel longiores filamentis. Stylus triquetro-filiformis, inclinatus, cur 
wus, firmulus, equans florem: stigma punctum obtusum parum tumidum, - 
Considering the moderate extent of the Canary Islands, 
and the frequency with which they have been investigated 
by intelligent and industrious botanists from all quarters of 
Europe; we did not expect to find that they possessed a 
native liliaceous plant, so conspicuous as the present, which 
remained to be registered. But we can find no record 
of it within the chronicles of Botany; nor in any Her- 
barium to which we have access. ‘The specimen that, 
afforded the drawing, bloomed this autumn in the hothouse 
of Mr. Griffin, at Lambeth. : 
It is indigerous of the island distinguished in the 
cluster by the name of the Grand Canary; and was brought 
into this country in the winter of 1815 by Dr, C. Schmidt, 
a gentleman now associated to the expedition to the Niger. 
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