HYMENOOALLIS. 123 



long; anthers linear, | in. long. Style much overtopping the 

 anthers. Ovules 2 in a cell. 



Hab. West Indies. Nearly allied to H. speciosa. It was figured by Ehret 

 (tab. 98), and noticed by Linnaeus as a var. of P. amboinense. Salisbury's P. 

 amcenum is a form of H. carilxea. H. oniata Eoem., judging from the description, 

 differs from ovata by its flowers with pedicels I — | in. long. H. ovalifolia Herb. 

 (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 510) is apparently a small slender form of this species. 



8. H. Skinneriana Herb, in Bot. Eeg. 1843, Misc. No. 59.— 

 Bulb middle-sized. Leaves oblong, acute, petioled, a foot long, 

 5 in. broad. Flowers 6 in a sessile umbel ; spathe- valves lanceolate, 

 1^ in. long. Perianth-tube 2i in. long ; segments a little longer 

 than the tube. Staminal cup narrowly funnel-shaped, toothed 

 between the free tips of the filaments, which are scarcely longer 

 than the cup ; anthers linear. Style overtopping the anthers. 



Hab. Guatemala, Skinner. Flowered by Dean Herbert at Spofforth in 

 March, 1843. 



9. H. GLAUCA Roem. Amaryll. 173. Pancratium glaucum Zucc. 

 Choretis glauca Knowles & Westc. Floral Cab. ii. 101, with figure. 

 H. Choretis Hemsley. — Bulb globose, middle-sized. Leaves with 

 an oblong acute glaucous lamina If ft. long, 3-4 in. broad, narrowed 

 gradually to a short deeply channelled petiole. Peduncle a foot or 

 more long. Flowers 2-3 in an umbel, subsessile ; spathe-valves 

 small, lanceolate. Perianth-tube greenish, 2-3 in. long; segments 

 about as long as the tube. Staminal cup above an inch long, 

 spreading at the throat, toothed between the free tips of the 

 filaments, which are about as long as the cup ; anthers linear, ^ in. 

 long. Style overtopping the anthers. Ovules 2 in a cell. 



Hab. Mexico, in the Province of Oaxaca. Introduced into cultivation in 

 1838, but I have never seen a specimen. 



10. H. LiTTORALis Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 338. H. 

 adnata Herb. Pancratium, littorale Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. 41, t. 750; 

 Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 74, t. 13. P. americanum Miller. — 

 Bulb 3-4 in. diam. Leaves 10-12, ensiform, acute, sessile, multi- 

 farious, suberect, bright green, 2-2^ ft. long, 1|- in. broad at the 

 middle, narrowed to an inch at the base. Peduncle ancipitous, 

 l|-2 ft. long. Flowers 4-8 in a sessile umbel ; outer spathe-valves 

 deltoid, 2-3 in. long. Perianth-tube 6-7 in. long, tinged with 

 green ; segments linear, recurved, 4 in. long, adnate to the base of 

 the staminal cup. Staminal cup broadly funnel-shaped, about an 

 inch long, 1|- in. diam. at the throat, toothed at the edge between 

 the free tips of the filaments, which are 2 in. long ; anthers linear, 

 I in. long. Style reaching to the anthers. Ovules 4-6 in a cell. 



Hab. Widely spread in Tropical America. It was cultivated by Dr. 

 Bichardson at Bierley in 1742. Very variable, the principal named forms being 

 H. Bryandri Roem. (Bot. Mag. t. 825), with tube and segments both much 

 shorter than in the type ; H. cUsticha Herb., with leaves rather broader and 

 more distinctly ribbed, and perianth-tube and segments both 4 — 5 in. long ; H. 

 acutifolia Herb. (Bot. Mag. 2621), with narrow leaves, and segments an inch 

 longer than the tube, which is under 3 in. long; and H. Stajjiesiana Boem., 

 with leaves an inch broad, a small staminal cup and perianth-segments an inch 

 shorter than the tube, which is 3 — 4 in. long. My description of the type is 

 made mainly from Jacquin's specimen at the British Museum, and of P. 

 Bryandri from a plant that flowered at Kew in April, 1878, received from the 



