148 A FLORA OF MANILA 
Cultivated for ornamental purposes, also in open places near the sea, 
flowering most of the year; throughout the Philippines near the sea. India 
to Malaya. 
*2. C. ZEYLANICUM L. Lilio (Sp.-Fil.). 
-Stout, glabrous, the bulbs globose 10 to 15 cm in diameter. Stems stout, 
short, erect. Leaves up to 1 m long, 7 to 10 cm wide. Peduncles stout, 
about as long as the leaves, with 10 to 20 umbellately arranged, reddish, 
fragrant flowers. Pedicels short. Flowers long, the tube slender, about 
10 cm long, the limb usually a little longer, the segments oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, about 2 cm wide, purplish-red, margined with white, paler inside. 
Cultivated for ornamental purposes, fl. June-Aug., and probably in 
other months. Tropical Asia and Africa, introduced in the Philippines and 
not spontaneous. 
*3. C. LATIFOLIUM L. Lilio (Sp.-Fil.). 
Bulb subglobose, up to 10 cm or more in diameter. Leaves 60 to 100 cm 
long, 5 to. 8 em wide. Peduncles stout, solid, green, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, 
up to 60 cm in length. Flowers about 10 in each umbel, fragrant, sessile 
or shortly pedicelled, the spathe-valves thin, about 8 cm long, oblong-ovate, 
acute. Perianth tube 10 to 12 em long, purplish below, greenish above, 
curved at the apex, 6 to 7 mm in diameter, the limb campanulate, horizontal 
or ascending, 10 to 12 cm long, the segments about 3 cm wide, white flushed 
with pale purple in the median part. Filaments white, declinate. 
Occasionally cultivated, fi. June—Oct., and probably in other months; 
introduced from tropical Asia. 
5. PANCRATIUM Linnaeus 
Herbaceous, from a thick, underground bulb. Leaves few, 2-ranked, 
narrow. Scape from the bulb, solid. Flowers large, white, solitary (in 
our species). Perianth funnel-shaped, the tube elongated, the limb spread- 
ing, the lobes 6, narrow. Stamens erect, inserted on the throat of the 
perianth, united by a toothed or lobed membrane which forms a cup; 
anthers dorsifixed. Style slender; ovules many in each cell. Capsule sub- 
globose, 3-angled, loculicidal. (Greek “all” and “strength.’’) 
Species about 12, southern Europe, Asia, and Africa, a single introduced 
one in the Philippines. 
*1. P. ZEYLANICUM L. 
Bulb subglobose or ovoid, about 5 cm in diameter. Leaves 6 to 8, 
2-ranked, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 25 cm long and 2 cm wide. 
Scape somewhat shorter than the leaves, slightly compressed. Flowers 
solitary, erect, white. Corolla-tube 4 to 5 cm long, thé membranaceous 
part connecting the stamens about 5 cm in diameter, with 12 large, 
acuminate teeth, the perianth-lobes recurved, lanceolate, acuminate, about 
5 cm long, 1 cm wide. Filaments erect, the free parts about 3 cm long. 
(Fl. Filip. pl. 321.) 
Occasionally found in gardens, flowering all the year; introduced from 
India or Ceylon. - 
> 6. HYMENOCALLIS Salisbury 
Rootstock stout, tunicated, the leaves numerous, long, sessile. Peduncle 
solid, erect, bearing many, white, fragrant flowers in a terminal umbel. 
Perianth salver-shaped, the tube cylindric, the segments linear, equal, 
