286 CLII. AMARYLLIDEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pancratium. 



INDIA, rare, Roxburgh. 



Leaves 4-8, bifarious, 12-16 in., erect, narrowed from the obtuse point to the 

 base. Scape shorter than the leaves ; spathes 3-4, unequal iu length. Perianth- 

 tube 3-4 in., slender, green, not at all inflated at the insertion of the linear lobes; 

 cup 1J in., long; filaments l|-2 in., anthers % in. long. A well marked species by 

 its Iong3-gonous perianth-tube not at all inflated above, erose (not 12 -toothed) broad 

 cup, and long stamens. Herbert's figure of longiflorum almost exactly accords with 

 Roxburgh's excellent description and figure of biflorum, except that the leaves are 

 acute and that he gives the habitat (according to the Banksian Herbarium) as the 

 Moluccas ; with P. verecundum it has nothing in common. 



5. P- longiflorum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 125 ; scape much shorter than 

 the narrowly lanceolate leaves usually 1-fld., spathe single, filaments 

 longer than the teeth of the cup. Kunth Enum.v. 663 ; Herb. Amaryllid. 

 208, t. 42, f . 2 ; Baker Handb o Amaryllid. 119. P. cambayense, Herb. I.e. 

 208, t. 42, f. 1. 



CENTRAL INDIA and the DECCAN PENINSULA, Rottler. DISTKIB. Moluccas. 



Bulb globose, 1^-2 in. diam., neck long cylindric. Leaves 12 by -1 in. Scape 

 compressed, spathes very acuminate. Perianth-tube 5-6 in., green, throat obconic ; 

 lobes 2 in., lanceolate ; staminal cup above 1 in. long with large bifid teeth between 

 the filaments. Roxburgh describes this species as received from the Moluccas and 

 sis having the scape even shorter than the perianth-tube and the filaments very little 

 longer than the lobes of the cup. 



6. P- parvum, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1850) 144; scape very 

 slender compressed about equalling the linear or lanceolate strict leaves 

 2-4-fld., spathe solitary, filaments hardly longer than the teeth of the cup 

 and much shorter than the anthers. Dalz. & Gibs.. Bomb. Fl. 276 ; Baker 

 Handb. of Amo^yllid. 119. 



The CONCAN ; on Mt. Drouoghiri, Dalzell. 



Ptidb globose ; neck long, cylindric. Leaves 12 in. or less, linear, striate, nearly 

 flat, thin. Scape 6-12 in. ; spathe sometimes deeply bifid. Perianth-tube 3-5 in., 

 lobes 1 in. ; staminal cup half as long as the perianth lobes, equally 12 -toothed, 

 filaments hardly longer than the teeth, two-thirds shorter than the anthers ; ovarian 

 cells many-ovuled. Capsule ovoid, 3-lobed ; cells few seeded. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



P. VERECcNDmi, W4ght Ic. t. 2023, from Travancore (Coimbatore) . This 

 which is referred to by Baker as the P. verecundum of Alton, appears from the figure 

 to be a very different plant, having no neck to the bulb, a very short 8-tid. scape, a 

 large solitary spathe, a perianth-tube much shorter than the lobes, and the bifid 

 lobes of the cup have a small tooth in the sinus, the filaments are twice as long as 

 the lobes of the cup. The figure is a rude one ; in that of the whole plant the 

 perianth lobes are narrowly linear, in the separate flower they are elliptic-lanceolate 

 and clawed. 



P. MALABARICUM, Thwaites Enum. 324 (C. P. 2339). Baker (Handb. p. 184) 

 cannot distinguish this from Hymenocallis tenuijiora, Herb., a NewGrenadan plant. 

 The genus Hymenocallis, which is exclusively S. American, differs from Pancratium 

 in the ovules being 2 collateral and basal in each cell. Thwaites says that his 

 malabaricum is a native of river-banks in Ceylon at 1-2000 ft, and gives it a native 

 name (Deya-manil.) 



OKDER CLIII. TACCACE2E. 



Bootstock tuberous or creeping. Leaves radical, simple lobed or laci- 

 niate, costate and penninerved. Scape leafless, flowers umbelled, greenish- 



