124 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Pancratium. 
5. P. sagittata. R. 
Leaves sagittate ; umbel sessile ; flowers long-pedicel- 
led, - 
A Native of low wet places near Chittagong. 
PANCRATIUM. Schreb. gen. n. 551. 
Corol superior, infundibuliform, crowned with a cam- : 
panulate, staminiferous nectary. 
1. P. zeylanicum. Willd. 2. 41, 
Leaves linear-lanceolate. Spathe one-flowered, Sex: 
menis of the corol longer than the tube, Stamens incur- 
ved. Nectary twelve-toothed. Lilium Indicum, Rumph. 
Amb.6 t. 70 f. 2. anda tolerably good figure, but Cat- 
tuli Pola, Rheed Mal. 11 t. 40 mustcertainly be excluded. 
A native of the Molucca Islands and of Ceylon, from 
both places the roots have been received into this Gard- 
en, where they blossom about the beginning of the rains. 
Root a round, smooth, truncated bulb, about an inch 
and a half in diameter. Leaves radical, bifarious as far a 
as ten or twelve from the ae bulb ; slightly recurved, 2 
linear-lanceolate, pointed, smooth, from six to twelvein- __ 
ches long. Scape axillary, shorter than the leaves, a lit- _ . 
tle compressed, smooth, supporting a single, large, pure — 2 
white, faintly fragrant flower, which expands about sun- — o 
set, and fades next morning. Spathes membranaceous. — 
length of the tube of the corol. Corol superior; tube ~ 
cylindric ; segments of the border linear-reyolute, longer ie 
than thetube. Nectary or crown of the corol spreading 
wide i in the shape ofa shallow bowl. The twelve divi- 
_ sions of its border acute, Filaments scarcely so long as 
the segments of the border of the corol, incurved. i 
ri 
2. P. longiflorum. B, H. ; nae 
Leaves narrow lanceolate. Spathe one-flowered. Seg- 4 
ments of the corol _linear-lanceolate, half the length. of 
