Order 114. Amaryllidecz. 343 



long, anthers yellow. Found in the Konkan by Woodrow and Stocks 

 (If.). No other authority. D. has what seems to be a very noble 

 plant, * 0. augustum, with lanceolate channelled leaves 3 to 5 feet 

 long, scapes nearly as long, umbels of 30 to 40 pedicelled flowers, 

 white or rosy, fragrant, corolla tube 2 to 5 inches long. Banks of 

 the Gatparba and Malparba rivers. I cannot find this in H. Another 

 large species, * C. latifolium, is attributed by Nimmo in G. to both 

 Konkans, rare. H. has it as throughout India wild or cultivated, 

 but D. has not got it ; the leaves and scape are 2 or 3 feet long, 

 umbels of 10 to 20 white flowers, more or less streaked or tinged 

 with red, corolla tube 3 to 6 inches long. 



4. PANCRATIUM. 



P. parvum. A very pretty plant about 8 inches high, leaves 

 blunt, flat, linear, scape compressed with 3 or 4 very long- 

 tubed white flowers, staminal cup 12-toothed, anthers yellow, 

 oblong linear. 



Tungar and Bandora. Konkan and Ghaut Hills (D.). No other 

 authority or hab. (H.) 



G-. has * P. parviflorum without description. Common in both 

 Konkans and on margins of Deccau rivers ; not referred to by 

 either D. or H. 



Agave Americana, the American aloe, pdlkdnde, jangli dnds, is 

 well known in gardens, "with leaves sharp-pointed like an Aztec 

 knife," formerly believed to flower only once in a hundred years ; 

 also A. vivipara, and probably others. 



Order BROMELIACE^E (not given in H.) must be mentioned for the 

 sake of the pine-apple, andnas, Bromelia ananas. The fruit consists 

 of numerous flowers and bracts grown together in a mass, and the 

 crown of leaves, which looks so out of place, growing apparently 

 out of the fruit, belongs really to the flower less top of the spike. 



The pine-apple was introduced into England about two centuries 

 ago. The best pines from S. Konkan gardens (e.g. between Harni 

 and Dapoli) are really good, though of course not equal to W. Indian 

 or English hot-house fruit. 



ORDER 115. TACCACEJS. 



Herbs, with tuberous roots, leaves radical, flowers umbelled, 

 involucre of 2 to 6 spathes, bracts very long filiform ; perianth 

 superior, 6-lobed in 2 series, stamens 6 at the base of the lobes, 

 anthers sessile within a hood, which forms the top of the 

 filament, style short, stigmas 3 broad, or petaloid and reflexed 

 like an umbrella over the style. 



A very small order, containing only one genus. 



TACCA, as the order. 



