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CLII. AMARYLLIDE.E, (J. D. Hooker.) 
4. PANCRATIUM, Linz. 
Rootstock bulbous. Leaves often bifarious, linear or lanceolate. Scape 
solid. Flowers large, umbelled or solitary; spathes 1-2, membranous ; 
bracts few, linear, hyaline. Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube long or short ; 
lobes narrow. Stamens on the throat of the perianth, filaments united by 
a toothed or lobed membrane forming a cup; anthers dorsifixed. Style 
orm, stigma small; ovules many superposed in each cell. Capsule 
large, subglobosely 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds angled, testa lax black.— 
Pecies about 12, S. European, Indian and African. 
* Perianth- tube 13-2 in. Staminal cup small.— Bulb without a neck. 
L P. triflorum, Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 126 ; scape 4-8-fld., périanth-tube 
longer than the linear lobes, filaments short. Kunth Enum.v. 661. Baker 
Handb, of Amaryllid. 198. P. malabathricum, Herb. Amaryllid. 206. 
Cen Parciforum, Miquel Plant exsicc. Hohenacker.—Rheede Hort. 
a. X1, t. 40, 
BENGAL, Rozburgh. Deccan PENINSULA, Canara, CEYLON, Thwaites. 
Bulb globose, 13-2 in. diam., neck 0. Leaves not bifarious, 8-12 by i-i in., 
neeolate, acute, Scape 6-9 in., slender; spathe single, ovate, acute, pedicels very 
short, Flowers fragrant; tube 11-2 in., throat dilated, lobes $-1 in.; staminal 
7p fin. diam., with 2-fid teeth between the short filaments. 
2 P. zeylanicum, Linn. Sp. DI 290; scape 1-fid., perianth-tube as 
long as the lanceolate lobes or shorter, throat broadly funnel-shaped, 
laments much longer than the broad shallow 12-toothed cup. Kunth 
8973 4 v.662; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 124; Thwaites Enum, 324; Wall. it 
toe Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 118; Bot. Reg. t. 479; Bot. Mag. 
"d P tiaraeflorum, Salisb. Par. Lond. t. 86. 
qp CAL ASIA anc — Archipelago. . 
ulb globose, 1:3 MR t or B- Malay S-12. bifarious, 6-11 in., linear- 
eeneg acuminate, Scape shorter than the leaves; spathes as long as the 
equally woe: Flowers sessile, white, fragrant, 2-3 in. diam. ; oe road, we 
Yin, 2-toothed, teeth large; filaments 1-14 in. longer than the cup; 
* Perianth-tube 3-4 in. Staminal cup broad.—Bulb with a long neck. 
3. P verecund ; € j ; stout about 
Bt um, Ait. Hori. Kew, i. 412; scape 
eine the oblanceolate leaves or longer 2-6-fld., spathes 2, filaments 
t " a longer than the teeth of the cup. Kunth Enum. v. 661; Bot. Heg. 
Wight) Amaryllid. 206; Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 119 (excl. syn. 
Foot of the H “LL 
IMALAYA, from the Panjab eastwards to Sikkim. . . 
Date wb globose, 2 in. diam, ; neck cylindric. Leaves thin, 1-13 by id my i d 
wi cape 12 in., compressed; spathes lanceolate ; pedicels short. 1 orien’ 
with a pig" throat obconic ; lobes 1} in., linear; staminal cup obconic, d bo 8» 
degeri ifid tcoth between the filaments ; style longer than the stamens.— 
Iption is from Baker. 
ie bia ^ ii 5 -3-fid., perianth-tube 
l r HMOrum, Joch, Fl. Ind. ii. 125; scape 2 l, p 
bont  igonons as long as the linear lobes, throat not dilated, filaments 
E | - . PP. longi , . 
Anavyl]ig. 208, t da e gonel shaped erose cup 
