286 CLIL AMARYLLIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pancratium. 
INDIA, rare, Roxburgh. . 
Leaves 4-8, bifarious, 12-16 in., erect, narrowed from the obtuse point to the 
base. Scape shorter than the leaves; spathes 3-4, unequal in length. Perianth- 
‘tube 3—4 in., slender, green, not at all inflated at the insertion of the linear lobes ; 
cup 1} in. long ; filaments 14-2 in., anthers } in. long.—A well marked species by 
its long 3-gonous perianth-tube not at all inflated above, erose (not 12.-toothed) broad 
cup, and long stamens.—Herbert’s figure of longiflorum almost exactly accords with 
Roxburgh’s excellent description and figure of biflorum, except that the leaves are 
acute and that he gives the habitat (according to the Banksian Herbarium) as the 
Moluccas ; with P. verecundum it has nothing in common. 
5. P. longiflorum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 125; scape much shorter than 
the narrowly lanceolate leaves usually 1-fld., spathe single, filaments 
longer than the teeth of the cup. Kunth Enum.v. 663; Herb. Amarylid. 
208, t. 42, f£. 2; Baker Handb o Amaryllid.119. P.cambayense, Herb. lc. 
208, t. 42, f. 1. 
CENTRAL INDIA and the Deccan PENINSULA, ARottler.—DisrRiP. Moluccas. 
Bulb globose, 13-2 in. diam., neck long cylindric. Leaves 12 by 3-1 in. Scap : 
compressed, spathes very acuminate. Perianth-tube 5-6 in., green, throat obconic ; 
lobes 2 in., lanceolate ; staminal cup above 1 in. long with large bifid teeth We, 
the filaments.—Roxburgh describes this species as received from the Moluccas d 
as having the scape even shorter than the perianth-tube and the filaments very little 
longer than the lobes of the cup. 
6. P. parvum, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1850) 144; scape very 
slender compressed about equalling the linear or lanceolate strict leaves 
2-4-fld., spathe solitary, filaments hardly longer than the teeth of the cup 
and much shorter than the anthers. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 276; Baker 
Handb. of Amaryllid. 119. 
The Concan; on Mt. Dronoghiri, Dalzell. 1 
Bulb globose ; neck long, cylindric. Leaves 12 in. or less, linear, striate, net J 
flat, thin. Scape 6-12 in. ; spathe sometimes deeply bifid. "Perianth-tube 3-5 0» 
lobes 1 in.; staminal cup half as long as the perianth lobes, equally 12-toothed, 
filaments hardly longer than the teeth, two-thirds shorter than the anthers ; ovarian 
cells many-ovuled. Capsule ovoid, 3-lobed; cells few seeded. 
. DOUBTFUL SPECIES. This 
P. VERECUNDUM, Wight Ic. t. 2023, from Travancore (Coimbatore). e 
which is referred to by Baker as the P. verecundum of Aiton, appears from the figur 
to be a very different plant, having no neck to the bulb, a very short 8-fld. scape, 
large solitary spathe, a perianth-tube much shorter than the lobes, and the bi ; 
lobes of the cup have a small tooth in the sinus, the filaments are twice 8$ Jong S 
the lobes of the cup. The figure is a rude one; in that of the whole plant 
perianth lobes are narrowly linear, in the separate flower they are elliptic-lanceo'à 
aud clawed, 
P. MALABARICUM, Thwaites Enum. 824 (C. P. 2339). Baker (Handb. P. 184) 
cannot distinguish this from Hymenocallis tenuiflora, Herb., a New Grenadan p o 
The genus Hymenocallis, which is exclusively S. American, differs from Panera "s 
in the ovules being 2 collateral and basal in each cell. Thwaites says that 
malabaricum is a native of river-banks in Ceylon at 1-2000 ft. and gives it 2 native 
name (Deya-manil.) 
Order CLIII. TACCACEZE. i 
Rootstock tuberous or creeping. Leaves radical, simple lobed or Jaer 
niate, costate and penninerved. Scape leafless, flowers umbelled, greens" 
