87. AMARYLLIDACEJE. £ 1. Chhtum. 



Filaments free ....... 1. Crinurh. 



Filaments united by a cup-shaped membrane . . 2. Pancratium 



B. Small rhizomatous plants with plicate leaves 



and yellow flowers . ...... 3. Qurculigo, 



C. Bhizomatous shortly caulescent suffruticose 



Slants with many thick fleshy leaves and 

 owers in a large panicle. 



Flowers erect. St. longer than the perianth . . 4. Agave. 

 Flowers drooping. St. shorter than the 

 perianth ........ 5. Furcrosa. 



1» Crinuni, L. 



Stout herbs with tunicate bulbs and narrow fleshy 

 leaves. Fls. handsome white or blush-red umbellate with 

 long linear bracts. Perianth funnel-shaped with a long tube, 

 sometimes slightly zygomorphic. Anthers versatile, dorsifixed. 

 Fruit bursting irregularly with a few large seeds. 



Per. lobes linear to linear-lanceolate. Anthers 



linear f " grey 1. deftium. 



Per. lobes lanceolate to oblanceolate. Anthers black 



under %' long crescent-shaped. St. declinate . 2. latifolium, Var. 



1. C. defixum, Ker. 



L. 1" broad. Perianth- tube 3f-4*, longer than the 

 linear-lanceolate lobes Stamens not quite as long as the 

 perianth lobes (much longer, F.B.I.). Fruit beaked with the 

 tube. 



Muddy banks of rivers, common. Fls. Aug.-Bept. 



2. C. latifolium, L. Var. Campbellii. Sikiyom Baha, 8. 



L. attain 30* by 4|* (about half way up) or more, tapering 

 gently to a sharp point, Oamp. A beautiful species with 

 stout compressed scapes and 8-10 drooping white or rosy 

 flowers with a slightly curved tube 4-5* and oblanceolate 

 perianth lobes 4-5" long. St. 3-4" with linear-oblong black 

 anthers curved into a semicircle. 



