124 HEXANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Paticratium. 



5. p. sagittata. R. 



Leaves sagittate ; umbel sessile ; flowers long-pediccl- 

 led. 



A Native of low wet places near Chittagong. 



PANCRATIUM. Schreb. gen. n. 551. 

 Corol superior, infundibuliform, crowned with a cam- 

 paniilate, staminiferous nectary. 



1. P. zeylankum. Willd. 2. 41. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate. Spathe one-flowered. Seg- 

 ments of the corol longer than the tube. Stamens incur- 

 ved. Nectary twelve-toothed. Lilium Indicum, Rumph. 

 Amb. 6 t. 70 f. 2. and a tolerably good figure, but Cat- 

 ' tidi Pola, Rheed Mai. 11 f. 40 must certainly 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 

 as ten or twelve from the same bulb ; slightly recurved, 

 linear-lanceolate, pointed, smooth, from six to twelve in- 

 ches long. Scape axillary, shorter than the leaves, a lit- 

 tle compressed, smooth, supporting a single, large, pure 

 white, faintly fragrant flower, which expands about sun- 

 set, and fades next morning. Spathes membranaceous, 

 length of the tube of the corol. Corol superior ; tube 

 cylindric ; segments of the border linear-revolute, longer 

 than the tube. Nectary or crown of the corol spreading 

 wide 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. 



2. P. longlflorum. B. H. 



Leaves nixrYow lanceolate. ^ Spathe one-lowered. Seg- 

 ments of the corol linear-lanceolate, half the length of 



