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PANCRATIUM angustum. 
Mr. Griffin's Sea-Daffodil. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IJ. Germ. inferum. * 
AMARYLLIDEEZ. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. 
PANCRATIUM. Flores scaposi, umbellati, bracteato-distincti, rard 
solitarii; spatha 2-plurivalvis, Cor. supera, erecta v. ex medio nutans, 
nunc pendulo-cernua; tubuloso-sexfida, limbo stellato, rariis connivente. 
Fil. in ore tubi, membrana coroniformi raré irregulari inferné varié con- 
nexa, indé patentia v. conniventia v. introfracta, interdim declinata; raris- 
simé discreta et basi brevé alata; vix unquam exserta: anth.: versatiles. 
Stylus inclinatus, rarius brevior corolla: stig. simplex v. 3 brevia. Caps. 
membranosa, 3-loc., 3-valv. valvis medio septiferis: sem. plurima, biseriata, 
y. in singulo loculo collaterali-gemina, v. solitaria et loculamento con- 
formia, v. tuberoso-laxata. 
Bulbus tunicatus. Fol. bifaria v. nunc subplurifaria, angusté lorata ad 
elliptico-lanceolata, interdim petiolata, rard cum lamina transverse latiore. 
Differt Crino filamentis aut monadelphis aut basi brevé alatis: ab AMARYL- 
LipiBus cum tubo coronato ex eo andl 
juncta sit ; & proximo Narcisso quod ibi filamenta corond inclusa atque infra 
os tubi inserla sint. Seminum testa in: loculamentis polyspermis nigricans. 
Nob. in Journ. scien. & arts. 3. 316. “ 
Div, II. Floribus sessilibus v. subsessilibus: limbo radiato: dentibus senis 
F corone staminiferis. 
P, angustum, pluriflorum; foliis loratis longé acuminatis lucidis; tubo ro- 
tundaté trigono estriato; laciniis isto sublongioribus divaricatis, 4 corona 
triplo breviore angusté infundibuliformi omnin6 discretis. Nob.in Journ. 
scien. & arts, 3. 327. 
Folia leté virentia, plurima, bifariam divaricata, sesquipedalia v. ultra, 
sesquiunciam lata. Scapus 2-pedalis, glaucus, anceps. Spatha arida, acuta. 
Flores 5, albi, sessiles, fragrantes in extensum subquinquunciales: tubus 
virens, % parte v. circa brevior lacintis externis: limbus radiatus, recurvus, 
laciniis angustis, linearibus, extimis sublongioribus. Corona limbo magis 
triplo brevior, spatits interstamineis lobato-elevatis labis acuminatis bidentatis v. 
bifidis, erectis. Vil. erectiuscula, virentia, duplo longiora corona, * parte v. 
circa breviora limbo: anth. lute@, % partes uncie longe. Stylus virens, 
corolla brevior. Germ. glaucum : loculamenta disperma, ovulis erectis oblongis 
affixis imo angulo loculamentorum. Nob. in loc. cit. : 
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An unpublished species, of the native country and in< 
troduction of which we have no information, but the de- 
gree of its impatience of cold proves it a tropical plant; 
probably from South America? Differs from caribeum by 
a narrowly lorate foliage; from littorale and Dryandri by 
a tube, which is rather shorter than the limb, and in ge- 
in its corona a filamentis undique dis- .. 
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