136 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Crhium. 



Cepa sylvestris. Rumph. Amb. 6. p. 160. t. 70./. 1. 



Pancratium amboinense. Willd 2. 45. 



Introduced from Amboyna into the Company's Botanic 

 Garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms in May and June, 

 but rarely ripens its seeds. 



Root bulbous, perennial. Leaves radical, petioled, re- 

 niform-cordate, many-nerved, entire, smooth on both 

 sides ; length and breadth nearly the same, and in healthy 

 luxuriant plants about ten or twelve inches each way. 

 Petioles smooth, deeply channelled. Scape erect. Spathes 

 three, many (from thirty to fifty) flowered. Flowers 

 pedicelled, large, pure white, and fragrant. Bractes 

 chaffy, intermixed amongst the pedicells of the flowers. 

 Corol infundibuliform. Tube slender, straight ; divisi- 

 ons of the border shorter than the tube, alternately lan- 

 ceolate and cuneiform. Filaments inserted by broad, lo- 

 bate, sometimes united, fleshy bases, into the mouth of 

 the tube of the corol, rather shorter than its divisions. 

 Anthers incumbent. Germ beneath, three-celled, with 

 two seeds in each, attached to the inner angle of the cell. 

 Style rather longer than the stamens. Stigma simple, 

 acute. Berry as in the other species but smaller, and 

 with rarely more than one bulbiform seed. 



Sect. I. Flowers declinate, 



11. C. augustum. R. 



Bulb columnar, mostly above ground. Leaves sparse, 

 lanceolate, channelled, smooth-margined. Scapes lateral, 

 the length of the leaves ; umbels of from twenty to thirty, 

 pedicelled, declinate flowers. 



From the Mauritius this magnificent plant has been 

 introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it 

 blossoms at various times throughout the year, but with 

 the greatest luxuriance during the rains ; the scapes are 

 as thick as a child's wrist, above three feet long, and of 

 a dark, reddish purple colour, the umbels have then about 



