413, 
PANCRATIUM verecundum. @.. 
Solander’s Sea-Daffodil. 
Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum, af 
AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. 1.296. Sect. I. ; 
PANCRATIUM. Supra vol. 3. fol. 221. 
| HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. a a. 2 
Div. Floribus petiolatis v. subsessilibus: limbo radiato: incisuris senis corone 
stamintferis. : 
P. verecundum, spatha 2-4-flora, foliis linearibus acutis, limbo corolla bre 
viore tubo, coronz incisuris alterné profundioribus, staminibus incurvis . 
2-3plo longioribus lobulis corone. Nob. in journ. of scien. and the arts. 
3. 318; (ab anglico Roxb. MSS. verso). en 
Pancratium verecundum. Solander in Hort. Kew. 1.412; (sed in editione 
secundé a Dryandro omissum. A Willdenovio aliisque malé cum P. mari- 
timo confusum ). ; 
Pancratium triflorum. Roxburgh MSS. in Museo Banksiano 
picta. Carey bengal. 23, 
Catulla pola. Rheede malab. 11.79. t. 46. 
(8) tubo subtriunciali. 
Distinguitur P. maritimo (vid. ee fol. 161.) Petts numerosioribus, non 
glaucis, acuté acuminatis, nec exacté bifariis, dentibus coronce undulatis longi- 
oribus, magisque acuminatis, filamentis bis terve longioribus dentibus corone. 
Fol. 8-10, sesquipedalia, semunciam lata. Scapus erectus, compressus, 
pedalis. Spathee oblonge, lanceolate, acuminate, albide, marcescentes, ex- 
teriores majores sesquiunciales. Flores suaveolentes pedicellati. Pedicelli tri- 
gont vic semunciales. Corolla tubus cylindrico-trigonus, virescens vix biun- 
cialis, crassitie penne anserine. Limbus campanulatus : lacinie lanceolate, 
acuta, tubo paulo breviores, nivee, extiis medio virescentes. Corona campa-~ 
nulata, corolle laciniis brevior, sexfida, laciniis bifidis. Fil. alba. Anth. 
flave. Stylus declinatus virescens. Stigma, obsolet? trilobum. Solander. 
Gan tabula 
Uae“ a a 
‘We are indebted to Mr. Herbert for the specimen of this 
rare plant. It was produced this summer in the hothouse at 
Spofforth; and had been received from the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden. The species was originally named and recorded in 
the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis by Dr. Solander, 
from a plant which flowered at Mrs. Theobald’s in 1776; 
_ but has been omitted by Mr. Dryander in the second edition 
of that work; for reasons of which we are not precisely 
aware. 
In our plant the tube of the corolla is longer than in that 
described by either Dr. Solander or Dr. Roxburgh; but this is 
at all times a very variable feature, and one little to be 
