PLATE XLI. 



1. PANCRATIUM MAllITIMUM. 



SEA PANCRATIUM. 



This genus contains plants of the l)ull)ous-iootC(i Honcry peren- 

 nial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Hcjcandria Monogijnia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Spnthocea. 



The characters arc: that the calyx is an oblong sjjalhc, obtuse, 

 compressed, opening on the flat side, shrivelling: the corolla has six 

 petals, lanceolate, flat, inserted into the lube of the nectary on the 

 outside above the base: nectary one-leafed, cylindric-funnel-form, 

 coloured at top, with the mouth spreading and twelvc-clcft : the sta- 

 mina have six filaments, awl-shaped, inserted into the tij^s of the nec- 

 tary, and longer than they are: anthers oblong, incumbent: the 

 pistillum is a bluntly three-cornered germ, inlerior: style fdiform, 

 longer than the stamens: stigma blunt : the pericarpium is a roundish 

 capsule, three-sided, three-celled, three-valvcd : the seeds several, 

 globular. 



The species cultivated are: i. F. maritimitm. Sea Pancratium; 

 2. P. I/li/ricum, Illyrian Pancratium; 3. P. Zeijlanicum, Ceylonesc 

 Pancratium ; 4. P. Mexicanum, Mexican J^ancratium ; 5. P. Cari.- 

 b(£Hm, Caribean Pancratium; 6. P. Cino/iniaiiifm, Carolina Pancni- 

 lium ; 7. P. Ainboincnse, Jiroad-leaved Pancratium; 8. P. lertcun- 

 dum. Narcissus-leaved Pancratium. 



The first has a large, coated, bulbous rooi, of an oblong form, 

 covered with a dark skin : the leaves are shaped like a tongue; are 

 more than a foot long, and one inch broad, of a deep green, six or 

 seven of them rising together from the same root, encompassed at 

 bottom with a sheath: between these arises the stalk, which is a foot 



