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3. C. PRATENSE, Herbert ; F. B. I. vi, 282 ; Prain I. c. 1061 ; 

 Cooke 1. c., 750. C. longifolium, Roxb. I. c. 130. Plains of India 

 and in Burma. Cult, only in Upp. Gang. Plain. 



4. C. LATIFOLIUM, Linn. ; Roxb. ; 1 c. 137 ; F. B. I. vi, 283; 

 Prain 1. c. 1061. Gardens generally in India, perhaps wild in 

 Orissa and Chota Nagpur. VAR. zeylanica, Herb. ; C. zeylanicum, 

 Roxb. I. c. 138. In gardens in India, perhaps wild in Orissa. 



6. PANCRATIUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 285. 



Herbs with tunicate bulbs. Leaves linear or lanceolate, often 2- 

 farious. Flowers large, solitary or umbellate, sessile or stalked 

 within 1 or 2 membranous spathes ; bracteoles linear, hyaline. 

 Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube usually long, widened at the mouth ; 

 lobes 6, narrow, suberect, subequal. Stamens 6, shorter than 

 perianth, adnate to the throat; filaments, connate below in a 

 petaloid membranous cup ; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell ; style long, filiform ; stigma 

 small. Fruit a large subglobose 3-cornered loculicidally 3-valved 

 capsule. Seeds many, angular ; testa thick, lax, black. Species 

 about 12, in S. Europe, Africa, and a few are cultivated in Indian 

 gardens, and are often apparently wild within the area of this flora. 



Zephyrantlies tubispatha Herbert ; F. B. I. vi, 277 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 1060. A bulbous plant with white flowers. It was intro- 

 duced into India from Peru, and is much grown in gardens, and 

 has become naturalized as an escape in many parts of India. 

 Another species, Z. rosea Lindl., is also met with in Indian 

 gardens, and in Dehra Dun it occurs as an escape from cultivation. 

 It is wild in Cuba, and the flowers are red. 



Polianihes-tuberosa, Linn.; Watt, E. D.; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 753. 

 A well-known garden plant within the area of this flora and in 

 other parts of India. Roots tuberous ; flowering stems 3-4 ft, 

 high ; flowers white and fragrant, in terminal racemes. Intro- 

 duced from Mexico and known in India as the Tuberose. 



CX. DIOSCOREACEJE. 



Large usually climbing herbs and generally with a thick fleshy 

 tuberous underground rootstock, rarely a cluster of tuberous 



