CLII. AMAUYLLIDE.K. (J. D. Hooker.) 285 



4. PANCRATIUM, Linn. 



EooMock bulbous. Leaves often bifaricms, linear or lanceolate. Scape 

 solid. Jf lowers large, umbelled or solitary ; spathes 1-2, membranous ; 

 bracts few, linear, hyaline. Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube long or short ; 

 lobes narrow. Stamens on the throat of the perianth, filaments united by 

 a toothed or lobed membrane forming a cup ; anthers dorsifixed. Style 

 filiform, stigma small ; ovules many superposed in each cell. Capsule 

 large, subglobosely 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds angled, testa lax black.^ 

 Species about 12, S. European, Indian and African. 



* Perianth-tube 1| 2 in. Staminal cup small. Bulb without a necJc. 



1. P. triflorum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 126 ; scape 4-8-fld., perianth-tube 

 longer than the linear lobes, filaments short. Kunth Enum. v. 661. Baker 

 Handb. of Amaryllid. 128. P. malabathricum, Herb. Amaryllid. 206. 

 Crinum pauciflorum, Miguel Plant exsicc. Holienacker. Rheede Sort. 

 Hal. xi. t. 40. 



BENGAL, Roxburgh. DECCAN PENINSULA, Canara. CEYLON, Thwaites. 



Bulb globose, 1^-2 in. diam., neck 0. Leaves not bifarious, 8-12 by -f in., 

 lanceolate, acute. Scape 6-9 in., slender; spathe single, ovate, acute, pedicels very 

 short. Flowers fragrant ; tube 1^-2 in., throat dilated, lobes f-1 in.; staminal 

 cup i in. diam., with 2-fid teeth between the short filaments. 



2. P. zeylanicum, Linn. Sp.^Pl. 290; scape 1-fld., perianth-tube as 

 long as the lanceolate lobes or shorter, throat broadly funnel-shaped, 

 filaments much longer than the broad shallow 12-toothed cup. Kunth 

 Enum. v. 662 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 124 ; ^vaites Enum, 324 ; Wall. Cat. 

 8973 A ; SaJcer Handb. of Amaryllid. 118 ; Bot. Reg. t. 479 ; Sot. Mag. 

 t. 2538. P. tiaraeflorum, Salisb. Par. Lond. t. 86. 



TEOPICAL ASIA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Bulb globose, l|-2 in. diam. ; neck 0. Leaves 8-12, bifarious, 6-11 in., linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate. Scape shorter than the leaves ; spathes as long as the 

 corolla-tube. Flowers sessile, white, fragrant, 2-3 in. diam. ; cup broad, sub- 

 equally 12-toothed, teeth large ; filaments 1-1| in. longer than the cup ; anthers 

 | in. 



** Perianth-tube 3-4 in. Staminal cup-broad. Bulb with a long neck. 



3. P. verecundum, Ait. Sort. Kew, i. 412; scape stout about 

 equalling the oblanceolate leaves or longer 2-6-fld., spathes 2, filaments 

 much longer than the teeth of the cup. Kunth Enum. v. 661 ; Bot. Reg. 

 t. 413; Herb. Amaryllid. 206; Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 119 (excl. syn. 

 Wight.) 



Foot of the HIMALAYA, from the Panjab eastwards to Sikkim. 



ulb globose, 2 in. diam. ; neck cylindric. Leaves thin, 1-1^ by - f in., acumi- 

 nate. Scape 12 in., compressed j spathes lanceolate ; pedicels short. Perianth- 

 tube 3-4 in., throat obconic ; lobes 1| in., linear ; staminal cup obconic, f-1 in. long, 

 with a bifid tooth between the filaments ; style longer than the stamens. The above 

 description is from Baker. 



4. P. biflorum, Roxb. El. Ind. ii. 125 ; scape 2-3-fld., perianth-tube 

 slender trigonous as long as the linear lobes, throat not dilated, filaments 

 about as long as the funnel- shaped erose cup. ? P. longiflorum, Herb. 

 Amaryllid. 208, t. 42, f. 2. 



