Amaryllidee.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 373 
170. BURMANNIACE®. 
The Burmanniacee are not closely allied to any known family; by some botanists 
they are placed near Hemodoracea, of which no species have been discovered within 
the limits of the Indian Flora. This family contains but few genera, and these, with 
the exception of Burmannia, but single species. They are found in moist situations 
within the tropics, both in the Old and New World; extending also in the latter as far 
north as 35°, and south to the Rio Negro in 33°. In the Old World species occur as 
far south as 35° at the Cape and in New Holland. From Madagascar and the Tropical 
Islands they extend into India as far as Nepal, where Burmannia disticha, a species 
first found in Ceylon, occurs, as well as in the more distant locality of the neighbour- 
hood of Port Jackson, in New Holland. Dr. Roxburgh has described B. triflora from 
Penang, which closely corresponds in description with B. c@lestis, Don, which has 
been figured in Tab. 91. fig. 1. from an imperfect drawing of Dr. B. Hamilton’s. Among 
which, (Jc. ined. 282), there is another closely allied, if, indeed, it be a distinct species, 
B. bifaria. The published figures of this genus display its wide distribution, as B. capi- 
tata, under the name of Tripterelia, by Michaux, from N. America; three species by 
Martius, from Brazil, B. disticha from Ceylon, and B. celestis from Nepal. 
Burmannia celestis. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 44. Syst. Veg. Schultes. vii. p. L. xxv. Tab. 91. fig. 1. 
171. AMARYLLIDEZ. 
The Amaryllidee, numerous in genera and species, and well known as ornamental 
parts, are widely distributed ; though we do not observe much correspondence between 
structure and distribution, as some are found in very hot, and others, as Galanthus, 
in equally cold parts of the world. They abound at the Cape of Good Hope, also -in 
tropical and extra-tropical America, with a few species of other genera, as well as of 
Narcissus, in the South of Europe and the North of Africa, the Oriental region, and 
in China and Japan. Narcissus Tazetta, known in India by the Persian name nurgus, 
extends from the Mediterranean into the Oriental region and Persia, and thence to 
the Himalayas and China. Though found in all these, it must, no doubt, have been 
introduced into some, on account of the high esteem in which it has always been 
held in Oriental regions. Dr.Wallich obtained it in Nepal, and I found it in some 
apparently wild situations; but I ascertained that all respecting which [ could get any 
information, were the sites of old habitations and deserted gardens. 
Crinum, and Pancratium therefore, alone belong to the Indian Flora, and are also 
both found in Equinoctial America; the former also in Western Africa, the Cape 
of Good Hope and New Holland. Pancratium delights chiefly on the coasts of many 
of the Indian islands, extending to the coast of Arabia, and thence to those of the 
Mediterranean, where P. maritimum is found. In the gardens of India two species are 
especially common, P. zeylanicum, Hind. chumbuk, and P. longiflorum of Roxburgh, 
which, by the natives, is called sooillia. Crinum likewise delights in tropical islands, 
and 
