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thin, ensiform, a foot long, |-1 in. broad, contemporary with the 

 flowers. Peduncle much shorter than the leaves, compressed. 

 Flowers usually solitary, sessile ; spathe-valve single, very acumi- 

 nate. Perianth-tube greenish, 5-6 in. long, obconic in the upper 

 neck ; segments lanceolate, 2 in. long. Staminal cup above an inch 

 long, with a bifid tooth between the free tip of each filament, which 

 is I in. long ; anther linear. Style reaching to the tip of the 

 segments. 



Hab. Central and Peninsular India. Is in the Eottler Herbarium. The 

 description of P. tristylum Eijk in Kev. Hort. 1880, 446, from gardens in Java, 

 agrees with this, except that it is said to have three styles. All the Pancratia 

 I have seen have a distinctly capitate stigma, at most faintly 3-lobed. 



11. P. TORTuosuM Herb, in Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 28. P. to)'ti- 

 folium Boiss. — Bulb globose, 1|~2 in. diam., produced into a long 

 cylindrical neck. Leaves 6-12, linear, contemporary with the 

 flowers, i-1 ft. long, conspicuously spirally twisted. Peduncle 

 very short, moderately stout. Flowers 2-4 in an umbel ; spathe- 

 valve single, large, ovate; pedicels" very short. Perianth-tube 

 5-6 in. long, obconic at the apex; segments linear, greenish, 

 ascending, above 2 in. long. Staminal cup obconic, above an inch 

 long, distinctly toothed between the short free tips of the filaments; 

 anthers linear, ^ in. long. Style overtopping the anthers. Capsule- 

 valves oblong, an inch long. 



Hab. Arabia and Egypt. Discovered by Fischer in 1837. Flowers in late 

 autumn and winter. 



12. P. TRiANTHUM Herb, in Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 28. P. tenui- 

 folium Hochst. P. Chapmanni Harvey. — Bulb globose, 1-2 in. diam., 

 with brown tunics and a long cylindrical neck. Leaves 6-8, narrow 

 linear, a foot or more long, straight. 'Peduncle short, slender. 

 Flowers 1-3 in an umbel ; spatlie lanceolate-acuminate, bifid at the 

 tip. Perianth-tube white, i ft. long, obconic in the upper inch ; 

 segments lanceolate, acute, ascending, 2 in. long. Staminal cup 

 about an inch long, with bifid teeth between the fi-ee tips of the 

 filaments, which are I in. long ; anthers linear, yellow. Style 

 overtopping the anthers ; stigma 3-lobed. 



Hab. Throughout Tropical Africa, from Nubia to Senegambia, Guinea, and 

 Damara-land. Flowers in spring and summer. Not yet introduced into culti- 

 vation. It may be the imperfectly- described P. maximum Forsk., from Arabia 

 felix. 



46. Hymenocallis Salish. 



Perianth hypocrateriform ; tube cylindrical ; segments equal, 

 linear or lanceolate. Stamens united in a distinct cup ; free portion 

 of filament filiform ; anthers linear, versatile. Ovart/ 3-celled ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, in a bundle from the base of the axis ; style 

 long, filiform ; stigma capitate, minute. Capsule large, bulb-like, 

 finally dehiscent. Seeds usually solitary, large, with a thick green 

 spongy testa. — Bootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves sessile, lorate or 

 petioled, oblong. Pedujicle solid, compressed. Flowers usually pure 

 white, fragrant, many in an umbel. 



