3. Crinum.] 149. AMARYLLIDACEjE. 



>'ery many rather small scarlet flowers with far-exserted stigmas. Bracts of the 

 involucre coloured. 



L. in a large tuft, oblong, closely tesselately nerved. 



Usually gro\vn in verandahs and grass greenhouses. 



Eucharis grandiflora, Planch (better known as E. amazonica, Lindl.). 



A very beautiful plant with a crown of ovate-lanceolate petioled leaves and scapes 

 of usually .5-7 large pedicelled pure white firm, almost wax-like sweet-scented 

 flowers 3" diam. with spreading broad perianth-segments. Tube widened in the 

 throat and with a complete erect staminal cup undulate or 2-lobed between the 

 stamens. Involucral bracts 2-3, floral narrow. Ovules many in each cell, 2- 

 seriate superposed. Fruit 3-dymous, depressed globose. Seeds large. 



Found in nearly every European plant-house or verandah. The leaves never 

 completely die down. 



In E. Candida, Planch, there are only 2 ovules in the cells and the staminal 

 membrane is interrupted except at the base. It is not common. 



Eurycles amboinensis. 



Habit similar, but foliage more handsome, flowers less so. L. large orbicular- 

 cordate, petioled. Fls. several in the umbel. Perianth with slender tube and 

 broad erecto-patent segments. Staminal-membrane with a broad toothed or lobed 

 margin each side of the filament and cut almost to the base between. Ovules 2 

 collateral in each cell. Capsule globose. 



Very common in gardens and plant-houses. 



4. PANCRATIUM, L, 



Bulbous herbs with Hnear or lanceolate radical often 2-farious 

 leaves. Flowers large umbelled or solitary on a solid scape, with 

 1-4 membranous spathes and linear hj^aline bracts. Perianth funnel- 

 shaped with long or short tube and narrow lobes. Stamens on the 

 throat of the perianth, filaments united by a toothed or lobed mem- 

 branous corona, anthers dorsifixed. Style filiform, stigma small. 

 Ovules many superposed in each cell. Capsule large, subglobosely 

 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds angled with lax black testa. 



A. Scape longer than the flowers. Perianth-tube 3-4", longer 



than the segments : — 

 Spathes 1-2. Fls. 3-5, filaments (free part) longer than 



the 10-toothed (each sinus 2-fld or 2-toothed) corona . 1. triflcrum. 



Spathes 3-4. Fl, 2-3. Filaments about equal to the 



erose corona . . . . . . . .2. bifloruni. 



B. Scape much shorter than the flowers. Perianth-tube 4-5- 



6". Sinuses of corona oblong 2-fid .... longiflorum 



C. Perianth tube 1-2' :— (p. 1111). 

 Spathes 1-2. Fls. 2-4, filaments somewhat longer than the 



corona, sinuses 2-toothed ..... .3. verecundum. 



The species seem to be rather confused, and to make the plants referred to here 

 clearer I have compared them with the following impublished drawings at Kew 

 as follows : — 



No. 1049 {Roxb. Ic. ined.) I take to be P. verecundum. Ait., but not P. rerecundum 

 of F.B.I., where Hooker says the tube is 3-4" long. Alton says that it is scarcely 

 2". 



No. 1960 {Roxb. Ic. ined.). This is undoubtedly Roxburgh's P. biflorum. 



No. 556 (author ?). I take this to be P. triflorum, Roxb. 



I believe (from noting specimens growing) that both relative and absolute 

 lengths of scape and perianth-tube are really characters of little taxonomic value. 

 In this case longiflora may pass into triflorum. 



1. P. triflorum, Roxb. (not of F.B.I.). Gering-ba, K. 



A very pretty plant with scapes froin 2-4" to 12-18" above ground, 

 bearing 3-5 flowers subtended by 1-2 (usually 2) membranous spathes. 



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