272 AnhiryllldC(C. [P(!?u?a//inii. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 285. Bot. Reg. t. 579 {Amaryllis ittsignis). Bot. Mag. 

 t. 923 {A. ornafa, Willie). Rheede, Hort. Mai. xi. t. 39. 



Bulb large, elongate, ovoid or globose, 5-6 in. diam., 

 narrowed into a .stout neck; 1. many 2f ft. by 3-4 in., lorate or 

 oblong-linear, acuminate, flat, margin slightly .scabrous ; scape 

 inserted on the neck of the bulb, about as long as the 1., stout, 

 tinged with purple ; bracts 3-4 in., oblong or broadly lanceo- 

 late, inner linear; umbel io-20-fld., pedicels very short; 

 perianth-tube 36 in., curved, cylindric, limb nodding, 3-4 in. 

 long, funnel-shaped, segm. about 3-4 by i in., oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute ; stam. declinate, about ;', shorter than the per.- 

 .segm., anth. |-| in. long ; style longer than the stam. ; ov.- 

 cells 5-6-ovuled ; fr. subglobose, \\~2 in. diam. 



Var. /3, zeylanicum, C. zcylamcitvi, Linn. Syst. Ed. .xii. 236. 

 Baker, 1. c. C. P. 3735. 



Handbk. Amaryll. 87. Bot. Mag. t. 1171 {Amaryllis oruata). 

 Wight, Ic. tt. 2019, 20. 



Bulb .subglobose, 6-8 in. diam., neck short, 1. fewer, shorter, 

 undulate, per.-segm. with a very dark purple central fascia 

 almost reaching the tip. 



Damp places in the low country; common. Fl. Jan.-Jvme; white, 

 with pink or purplish stain down centre of per.-segm. 



Throughout the Tropics of Old World. 



An extremely variable plant ; perhaps several species are included 

 under it, but I cannot separate them. — Irimen. 



In Dr. Trimen's MSS., C. latifolium is placed under C zeylanicum 

 as a var. /3, latifolium, but this must be an oversight, for in the Sp. PI. 

 C. latifolium was published as a Crinuvi, and C. zcylaiticum as an 

 Amaryllis. I have Mr. Baker's authority for the course here adopted 

 and for the characters of the var. — J. D. H. 



3. PANCRATZUXKC, L. 



Bulbous herbs; 1. linear or lanceolate; scape solid; fl. 

 large, umbelled or solitary; bracts I-2, large, membranous, 

 inner linear, hyaline; perianth funnel-shaped, tube cylindric, 

 segm. narrow ; stam. 6, inserted in the throat of the perianth, 

 fil. united by a toothed membrane and with it forming a cup. 

 anth. dorsifi.xed; ov. 3-celled, cells many-ovuled, style filiform, 

 stigma small; fr. subglobo.sely 3-gonous, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 many-seeded; seeds angular, testa lax, black. — Sp. about 12; 

 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



P. zeylanicum, L. Sp. PL 290(1753). Wal-lunu, 5. 



Herni. Hort. Acad. Lugd.-Bat. 691 ; Mus. 61. Burm. Thcs. 142. Fl. 

 Zcyl. n. 126. Moon, Cat. 2*4. Thw. Enum. 324. Baker, Handb. Amaryll. 

 118. C. P. 321 r. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 2S5. Herm. Hort. Lugd.-Bat. t. 692 Bot. Reg. t. 479. 

 liot. Mag. t. 2538. 



