776 AMAHYLLIDE^. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



one-fourth as long as subulate-tipped anthers — Spring -— Kurd Dagh; 

 Aintab. 



3. NARCISSUS, L. Narcissus. Nerjis. 



Perigonium with long tube and salver-shaped, six-parted limb. 

 Crown campanulate or cup-shaped, entire, crenulate, or parted. Sta- 

 mens inserted on tube of perigonium below the crown, free from it, the 

 anthers fixed by the middle of their dorsal surface. Ovary ovate or 

 oblong, triquetrous, cells 3, manyovuled; style filiform; stigma trun- 

 cate or somewhat o-lobed. Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 

 nearly globular or angled — Bulbous lierbs, flow^ers several or 1 in a 

 single spathe. 



1. j^'. Ta^ctta, L. If Nerjis. Renjis. Girundus. Leaves 2-6, 

 glaucescent, strap-sha2)ed, .003 to .01 broad, obtuse, flattish, usually 

 shorter than scape, coming with the Jioicers. Scape 3-10-flowered, the 

 pedicels unequal, the longer ones longer than the flowers and the oUong 

 spathe; tube of perigonium somewhat longer than the spreading, white 

 to cream-colored, .015 to .03 long, divisions; three of the divisions 

 obtuse, muticous or mucronulate, and the alternate ones apiculate; 

 crown golden, cup-shaped, one-fifth to one-half as long as divisions of 

 perigonium — November to March — Coast to middle mountain zones 

 and°interior plateaus. Probably the Hose of Sharon (Cant. ii. 1). 

 Among the forms, considered by Boissier as varieties, are :— 



Var. typicii§, Boiss. Divisions of perigonium ovate to ohlong- 

 eUi2)tical; crown one-third as long as divisions, nearly entire. 



Var. Syriacus, Boiss, Divisions of perigonium oNong ; cvownohso- 

 letely Idbed, one-fourth to one-fifth as long as divisions. 



Var. Cypri, Boiss. Scape tali ; bulb larger ; flowers larger ; crown 

 open, entire, one-third as long as divisions. 



2. N. §erolmus, L. 11 Leaves 1-2, filiform^ grooved at upper 

 surface, coming ajtev the flowers. Scape slender; flowers 1, rarely 2, on 

 pedicels shorter than the linear spathe ; tube of the perigonium sle.nder, 

 divisions white, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, .01 long, acute or mucro- 

 nate, shorter than tube ; crown very short, yellow, trifid, with obtuse, 

 retuse lobes — Autumn — Near Tripoli. 



4, PANCRATIUM, L. Pancratium. 



Perigonium with long tube and funnel-shaped, equally six-lobed 

 limb. Crown campanulate, adnate to perigonium below, split into 

 teeth. Stamens adnate to inner face of corolla, free or adnate to crowm, 

 the anthers fastened by the middle of their back. Ovary 3-celled cells 

 CO - ovuled ; style filiform, stigma somewhat 3-lobed. Capsule ovate- 

 triquetrous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds nearly globular, crustaceous 

 Perennial with large bulb, and white flowers included in a spathe. 



1. P. maritimiBiii, L. 2f .5 to .7. Leaves a^ipearing soon after 

 flow^ers, erect, broad-linear, glaucous, nearly as long as scape. Spathe 

 2-valved, lanceolate, one-third to one-fourth as long as flowers; flowers 

 2-8 in spathe, .1 to .15 long, nearly sessile ; tube of perigonium expand- 

 inf' gradually, longer than limb; lobes lanceolate-linear, spreading- 



