752 CXXIX. AMARYLLIUACE.E. 



4. PANCRATIUM, Linn. 



Herbs with tunicate bulbs. Leaves linear or lanceolate, often 

 bifarious. Flowers large, umbellate or solitary, sessile or pedicellate, 

 within 1 or 2 membranous spathes ; bracteoles few, linear, hyaline. 

 Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube usually long, widened at the mouth ; 

 lobes 6, narrow, suberect, subequal. Stamens G, shorter than the perianth, 

 adnate to its throat ; filaments filiform, but connate below in a petaloid 

 membranous cup, the edge of which between the free filaments may be 

 toothed or lobed ; anthers oblong or shortly linear, dorsifixed. Ovary 

 3-celled ; ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell ; style long, filiform ; stigma 

 small, capitate. Fruit a large subglobosely 3-angled loculicidally 3- 

 valved capsule. Seeds many, angular ; testa thick, lax, black. — Distrib. 

 S. Europe, India, Africa ; species about 12. 



Bulb without a neck; perianth-tube 1^-2 in. long; staminal- 



cup small 1. P. irijlorum. 



Bulb with a long neck; perianth-tube 3-4 in. long; staminal- 



cup broad 2. P. pai'vum. 



1. Pancratium triflorum, lioxh. Ft. Ind. v. 2 (1832) p. 126. 

 Bulb globose, 1^-2 in. in diam. ; neck 0. Leaves thin, contemporary 

 with the flowers, lanceolate, 8-18 by g-1 in., linear-lanceolate, acute. 

 Scape slender, 6-9 in. long. Flowers fragrant, 3-8 in an umbel ; 

 spathe single, ovate, acute; pedicels very short. Perianth-tube l|-2in. 

 long, the throat dilated to | in. in diam. ; lobes linear, |-1 in. long. 

 Staminal-cup | in. long with bifid teeth between the short filaments ; 

 anthers ^ in. long. Style reaching to the top of the perianth-lobes. 

 Fl. B. 1. V. 6, p. 285; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. p. 118; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 522. Pancratium makibathricum, 

 Herbert, Amaryllid. (1837) p. 202.— Flowers : May-June. 



Deccan : Mahableshwar, Woodrow ; Poona, Woodroiv; Shinragad, Si/mondsl, 

 Woodrowl S. M. Country: Belgauui, Eitchie, 1449 1 — Distrib. India (Bengal, 

 W. Peninsula), 



2. Pancratium parvum, Dalz. in Keiv Journ. Bot. v. 2 (1850) 

 p. 144. Bulb globose ; neck long, cylindric. Leaves thin, contemporary 

 with the flowers, 6-9 by |— | in., luiear or linear-lanceolate, attenuated 

 towards the base. Scape very slender, compressed, striate, 6-12 in. 

 long. Flowers white, 2-4 in an umbel ; pedicels |-|^ in. long ; spathe 

 single, sometimes deeply bifid. Perianth-tube 3-5 in, long, dilated 

 above ; lobes 1 in. long, linear. Staminal-cup funnel-shaped, half as 

 long as the perianth-lobes, 12-toothed ; filaments hardly longer than 

 the teeth of the cup, and much shorter than the linear anthers. 

 Ovary many-ovuhite ; style overtopping the anthers. Capsules ovoid, 

 3-lobed. Seeds few. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 286 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 276 ; 

 Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. p. 119; Woodr. in .Journ, Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 522.— Flowers : June-July. 



Stocks without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Koxkan : KanUkar\\ Konkan hills, 

 Dalscll cf Gibson ; Dronagiri Hill (Tliana districts), DalzM. Deccan : Puraudhar, 

 IVuodrow. S. M. Countuv : Belgauin Ghats, Ritchie, 14501 Kanaka: Law\ — 

 iJibTKiB. India (W. Penin.sula), apparently eudoniic. 



