456 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [Eurycles. 
more or less succulent, with 1 or few seeds.—Bulbous herbs. Lea 
all radical, petiolate, the lamina broad with longitudinal rather distant 
veins and transverse veinlets between them. Scape leafless. Flower 
a white, in a terminal umbel surrounded by 2 or 8 membr tion 
racts 
The genus extends over some islands of the Indian Archipelago. Of the two Aus- 
tralian pees, one has the general range of the genus, the other is endemic. 
Leaves very jeg and iini Corona not ł as long as the Au 
perianth-lobes . . E. amboinensis. 
Leaves ag not cordate. Corona not P as long: as the lobes 2. Æ. Cunninghamii. 
l. E. amboinensis, Loud. Encycl. Pl. 949. “ Bulb tunicate, 
brown." Leaves usually several, on rather long petioles, broadly 
ovate-cordate orbicular-cordate or almost reniform, often 8 to 10 in. 
long and as broad or broader, with numerous arcuate rather distant 
veins and transverse veinlets between them. Scapes 1 to 2 ft. high, 
lines long, divided to below the middle into 6 lobes, öli one divided at 
the apex into 2 lanceolate acuminate diverging lobes with the filament 
between them; stamens altogether s shorter than the perianth —Hook. 
Bot. Mag. under t. efit Pancratium wet Linn., Red. Lil. t. 
australasicum, Korin "Bot. Reg.t t. 715; Bagel aut, Loud. Bneyel 
242; E. australis, Schult. Syst. vii. 911; Kunth, Enum v. 691 
Qni sland. Island of Cairncross, Veitch (with flowers 21i in. long); ‘Rock! ing- 
green bay, — Mount Elliot, Fitzalan.—The species is also in the Indian 
re 
ii, Ait, MS.; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1506. Bulbs 
L 1i in. diameter. Taa on long pete, anes not wie but 
veined as in varying from 4 to long. 
inensis, capes 
about 1 ft. high, with an umbel of 6 to 10 flowers Weide by 2 or 3 
w a Perianth 1 to 1: in. long, i tube rather shorter than the 
B. 
"assi Brisbane river, sida vd A. pus pi ETT Leich- 
hardt, C. pres and others ; Rockhampto on, Bowma: 
13. CALOSTEMMA, R. Br. 
Perianth at length deciduous, with a slender but usually short = 
and a funne nel-shaped or spreading nearly equally 6- parted lim 
‘Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the tube; fi = united to 
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