Tas. 7762. 
HYMENOCALLIS SCHIZOSTEPHANA. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. AMaryLurpEa#.—Tribe AMARYLLE&, 
Genus Hymenocattis, Salish.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 734.) 
HymeEnocatuis schizostephana; bulbo ovoideo, foliis ad 8 distichis oblongo- 
lanceolatis 1-14 ped. longis 24-34 poll. latis in petiolum latum concavum 
angustatis late viridibus costa subtus crassa, nervis numerosis nervulis 
oblique trabeculatis, ecapo terminali ultrapedali valido compresso pallide 
viridi, umbella multiflora, spathis extimis 8-10 lineari-lanceolatis obtusis 
1-2 poll. longis membranaceis albis, interioribus paucis wquilongis 
linearibus, floribus sessilibus, perianthii tubo 2-24-pollicari viridi, seg- 
mentis 3-pollicaribus loriformibus albis, staminum corona 34 poll. longa 
infundibulari 6-fida v. -partita, lobis edentatis, filamentis gracilibus, 
antheris linearibus 4 poll. longis, stigmate capitellato. 
Hf. schizostephana, Worsley in Gard, Chron, 1899, vol. i. p. 386. 
A very distinct species of a genus numbering upwards 
of thirty species, natives of the New World, and chiefly 
tropical. It is a near ally of H. tubiflora, Salish. (Pancra- 
tium guianense, Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 265), a native of 
Demerara, from which it differs in the paler leaves with 
trabeculate nervation, in the compressed not two-edged 
scape, in the more numerous, shorter, white spathe-valves, 
in the much shorter perianth-tube and segments, and in 
the shorter six-fid or six-partite corona. It is also closely 
allied to H. angustwm, Herb. (Pancratium angustum, 
Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 221, referred to H. caribea, Herb., 
by Baker), in which the corona has triangular lobes between 
the stamens, and which has more slender filaments, a 
shorter perianth-tube, and narrower perianth-segments. 
A bulb of H. schizostephana was presented to the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, by A. Worsley, Esq., of Mandeville House, 
Isleworth, the possessor of a fine collection of bulbous 
plants and of drawings of the same. It flowered in 
a warm greenhouse in June, 1899. The flowers are 
fragrant. 
Deser.—Bulb ovoid. Leaves about eight, distichous, 
twelve to eighteen inches long by two and a half to three 
and a half inches broad, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed into 
Marcu Ist, 1901, 
