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3. C. PRATENSE, Herbert ; F. B. I. vi, 282; Prain 1. c. 1061 : 
| Cooke l. c., 750. C. longifolium, Roxb. 1. c. 130.—Plains of India 
and in Burma. Cult, only in Upp, Gang, Plain. 
4. C. uatirotium, Linn. ; Roxb. ; 1 c. 137; F. B. I. vi, 283; 
Prain 1. c. 1061.—Gardens generally in India, perhaps wild in 
Orissa and Chota Nagpur. VAR. zeylanica, Herb. ; C. zeylanicum, 
Roxb. l. c. 138.—In gardens in India, perhaps wild in Orissa. 
6. PANCRATIUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 285. 
Herbs with tunicate bulbs. Leaves linear or lanceolate, often 2- 
farious. Flowers large, solitary or umbellate, sessile or stalked 
within 1 or 2 membranous spathes ; bracteoles linear, hyaline. 
Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube usually long, widened at the mouth ; 
lobes 6, narrow, suberect, subequal. Stamens 6, shorter than 
perianth, adnate to the throat; filaments, connate below in a 
petaloid membranous cup; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 3-celled ; 
ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell; style long, filiform ; stigma 
small. Fruit a large subglobose 3-cornered loculicidally 3-valved 
capsule. Seeds many, angular; testa thick, lax, black.—Species 
about 12, in 8. Europe, Africa, and a few are cultivated in Indian 
gardens, and are often apparently wild within the arca of this flora. 
Zephyranthes tubispatha Herbert ; F.B. I. vi, 277; Prain Beng. 
Pl. 1060. A bulbous plant with white flowers. It was intro- 
duced into India from Peru, and is much grown in gardens, and 
has become naturalized as an escape in many parts of India. 
Another species, Z. rosea Lindl., is also met with in Indian 
gardens, and in Dehra Dun it occurs as an escape from cultivation. 
It is wild in Cuba, and the flowers are red. 
Polianthes-tuberosa, Linn.; Watt, E. D.; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 753. 
A well-known garden plant within the area of this flora and in 
other parts of India. Roots tuberous; flowering stems 3-4 ft. 
high ; flowers white and fragrant, in terminal racemes. Intro- 
duced from Mexico and known in India as the 7'uberose. 
CX. DIOSCOREACEZ:. 
Large usually climbing herbs and generally with a thick fleshy 
tuberous underground rootstock, rarely a cluster of tuberous 
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