282 CLII. AMARYLLIDE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



6. C- pusillum,, Herb. Amaryllid. 255, t. 32, f. 3 ; leaves few less 

 than 12 in. long in. broad erect, linear acute, umbels few-fld., pedicels 

 upwards of 1 in., perianth-tube 3 in., lobes nearly as long an inch longer 

 than the stamens. Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 77. 



NICOBAB ISLANDS. 



A very little-known plant, assumed by Herbert to bo stoloniferous, like C. 

 defixum. The bulb is described as 4 by -| in., columnar, cyliudric. 



Sect. II. PLATYASTER. Perianth erect, salver-shaped, lobes lanceolate. 

 Stamens very long, spreading. 



7. C- Immile, Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 2636 ; Avnaryllid. 256 ; leaves 

 about 12 in. linear pitted on the surface, margin smooth, scape about as 

 long subcylindric, umbels 6-9-fld., spathes 2-3 in. lanceolate, pedicels short, 

 perianth-tube 3 in., lobes linear-lanceolate rather longer than the stamens. 

 Kunth JEnum. v. 563 ; Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 81. 



TEOPICAL ASIA. 



Bulb globose, green, neck short. Leaves spreading, nearly flat, acute. Perianth- 

 tube green, lobes narrow white acute; filaments very slender, purplish, anthers^ iu. 

 long. The Bot. Mag. plate and description are the only authority for this species, 

 which may not be Indian. It was brought from the East by a Capt. Cragie to Mr. 

 Milne, of Fulharn Nursery. Baker doubtfully refers to it a plant collected by 

 Stocks, which is G. brachynema, Herb. 



8. C- amoenum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 23; Fl. Ind. ii. 127; leaves 

 ft. by 1-1| in. suberect ensiform acuminate margin subscabrous, 



scape 1-2 ft. rather slender subcylindric, umbels 6-12-fld., spathes 2 in. 

 lanceolate, flowers subsessile, perianth-tube 3-4 in., lobes 2-3 in. linear- 

 lanceolate rather longer than the red filaments. Kunth Enum. v. 562 ; 

 Herb. Amaryllid. 255 ; Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 81 ; Wall. Gat. 

 8971. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Nepal eastwards, ascending to 6000 ft. in Sikkim. 

 The KHASIA HILLS, SILHET and BURMA, Roxburgh, &c. 



Bulb globose, 2-3 in. diam. Leaves 10-12, tapering from the base to the acumi- 

 nate tip, bright green. Perianth white, tube green ; anthers - in. Ovary-cells 

 4-5-ovuled. Herbert describes 2 vars. ; namely caudicea, from Ceylon, with smooth 

 margins of the leaves and a cylindric neck of the bulb ; and verecunda, from 

 Kangoon, with more obtuse humifuse lacunose leaves. 



9. C. Stracheyi, Baker in Gard. Gkron. 1881, ii. 72; Handb. of 

 Amaryllid. 81 ; leaves 2 ft. by 1-^-2 in. lorate thin acute margin subdenti- 

 culate, scape l|-2 ft. stout, umbels 12-15-fld., spathes lanceolate, pedicels 

 ^-1 in., perianth-tube 3-3 in., lobes 2-21 in. hardly longer than the 

 filaments. 



KUMAON, in gardens. Strachey and Winterbottom. 

 Known imperfectly, and only as a garden plant. 



10. C. pratense. Herb. Amaryllid. 256; leaves 1^-3 ft. by l|-2 in. 

 linear channelled margins entire, scape 12 in. or more decumbent com- 

 pressed, umbels 6-12-fld., spathes 2-3 in. deltoid-lanceolate, flowers sub- 

 sessile, perianth-tube 3-4 in., lobes about as long rather longer than the 

 stamens. Kunth Enum. v. 563 ; Baiter Handb. of Amaryllid. 82. C. 

 longifolium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 23 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 130 ; Ker-Gaivl. in Quart. 

 Journ. Sc. $ Arts, iii. (1817) 107. 



Plains of INDIA and BURMA. 



Bulb 4-5 in. diam., ovoid or spherical, neck 2-2| in. Leaves 6-8, suberect or 



