368 amaryllidEjE. {Amaryllidea. 



Fruit succulent. Hairy plant, with a tufted or tuberous stock. 



Flowers small, yellow, in an almost sessile spike 1. Curculigo. 



Fruit capsular. Glabrous bulbous plants. Flowers large, white, umbel- 

 late. 



Stamens inserted at the base into a cup within the perianth-lobes . . 3. Pancratium. 



Stamens separately inserted on the perianth, the filaments not dilated 2. Crinum. 



1. CURCULIGO, Gsertn. 



Perianth regular, the tube long, often filiform, the limb of 6 equal deciduous 

 segments. Ovules several in each cell of the ovary. Stigmas 3. Fruit ob- 

 long, succulent, crowned by the persistent perianth-tube. Seeds enveloped in 

 a fleshy pulp, with a lateral beak-shaped hilum. — Tufted plants, usually hairy. 

 Leaves long, mostly radical. Flowers sessile, in sheathing bracts, in a sessile 

 or pedunculate head or spike. 



A tropical genus, limited to the Old World, with the exception of one S. American species. 



1. C. orchioides, Roxb. PL Corom. i. 14, t. 13 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1076, 

 var. minor. Leaves radical, grass-like, and seldom above 6 in. long and 3 

 lines wide in the Hongkong specimens, sometimes in India twice as long and 

 broad. Spike nearly sessile, with narrow sheathing bracts. Perianth hairy ; 

 the tube filiform, about f in. long ; the limb yellow, 5 or 6 lines long, with 

 lanceolate pointed segments. Ovary long and narrow, 3-celled. Capsule 

 succulent, usually 1-celled, with very few seeds separated by a spongy sub- 

 stance. — Hypoxis minor, Seem. Bot. Her. 419 ; not of Don. 



Common in spring, Champion, Seemann, Hance. Dispersed over India, from the Penin- 

 sula to Khasia and the Archipelago. It is also closely allied to the S. American Hypoxis 

 scorzonercefolia, Lam., which is surely a Curculigo, and to the Australian C. ensifolia. It is 

 only at first sight that it resembles the Hypoxis minor, Don, which has no tube to the 

 perianth. 



2. CRINUM, Linn. 



Perianth with a long tube and a regular 6-cleft limb, the segments spread- 

 ing or recurved. Stamens inserted at the summit of the tube ; filaments free, 

 filiform; anthers linear, versatile. Ovules usually few in each cell. Style 

 filiform, with an entire or 3-lobed stigma. Capsule globular, depressed, burst- 

 ing irregularly. Seeds few, nearly globular, often converted into fleshy bulbs. 

 — Large bulbous glabrous herbs. Leaves radical. Flowers usually large, 

 white or tinged with purple, in an umbel or head proceeding from a 2- or 3- 

 leaved spatha. 



A tropical or subtropical genus, dispersed over the New and the Old "World. 



1. C. asiaticum, Linn. ; Kunth,Enum. v. 547; Bot. Mag. t. 1073. Bulb 

 large and long. Leaves 1 to 3 ft. long, 1 to 3 in. broad. Scape about 1 ft. 

 high. Spatha reflexed, membranous. Flowers numerous, sessile or shortly 

 pedunculate. Perianth-tube about 3 in. long ; the segments linear, about 2 

 in. Ovules solitary in each cell of the ovary. 



. On the seashore at Saywan, Champion ; at Sheko, Hance. Generally on the sandy sea- 

 coasts of tropical Asia. 



3. PANCRATIUM, Linn. 

 Flowers of Crinum, except that the filaments are united at the base into a 

 petal-like cup, the margin of which is truncate, toothed or lobed between the 



