Pancratium declinatum. White false spiderlily . "This species is not so much known in this country as on the continent: it seems to be the same as Jacquin's distichum, which Willdenow has evidently confounded with amaenum. The leaves are near two feet in length. It is a native of Brazil.". Drawn "one third the size of nature," engraved by George Cooke. Conrad Loddiges and Sons published an illustrated catalogue of the nursery's plants entitled the Botanical Cabinet. The monthly magazine featured 10 hand-coloured illustrations and ran from 1817 to 1833 to total 2,000 plates. The publication introduced many exquisite camellias from China, exotic orchids and lilies from the New World, and about 100 varieties of heaths from South Africa, which were currently in vogue. (The Victorian era saw a series of manias for flowers - from roses and camellias to heaths, ferns and orchids.). Most of the plates were drawn by the author George Loddiges and local engraver George Cooke (1781~1834). The oth