84 PL.\NTS OF BERMUDA. 



spine; panicle erect, many -flowered, flowers nodding; lobes of 

 perianth oblong, pointed ; stamens included ; capsule four inches 

 long, with three yndc grooves ; seeds black. Distribution, Jamaica 

 and Florida ; habitat, thickets and sandy bays, sometimes planted 

 as a fence, a formidable plant with dagger-like leaves which turn 

 everyway. Flowers two inches long, white with purple base ; June 

 to August. 



Sfteculent plants with simple, often spiny, leaves ; flowers in racemes ; 

 perianth tubular, with six short sjjreading lobes ; stamens hypogynous ; 

 capsule three-celled, many -seeded. 



"v 1. A. vulgaris (Aloe). Stem very short, throwing up suckers from 

 the base ; leaves about a foot long, lanceolate, acute, curved up- 

 wards, very thick and glutinous, armed with spiny teeth ; raceme 

 erect, branched, two to three feet high, flowers nodding, yellow. 

 Distribution, largely cultivated in the West Indies— said to have 

 been introduced there from Bermuda or Canary Islands (Grisehach) ; 

 habitat, sandy waste places, and also cultivated in gardens together 

 with some ornamental species with variegated or mottled leaves, 

 Aloe variegata, A. picta, and the yellow- spined A. xantharantha. 



^ Xat : Ord : 68. AmaryUidacece. 



Herbaceous plants, often arising from a bulb ; leaves narrow ; 

 flowers showy, regular, six-lobed, frequent!}- furnished with an 

 inner cup or crown ; stamens six, sometimes united at the base ; 

 ovary inferior, three-lobed ; fruit a three-celled capsule, cells one 

 or many seeded. 



An order of Lily-like plants, readily distinguished from the previous 

 order by the inferior ovary. 



Amongst the species most commonly found in gardens are : the 

 Giant Lily fCrinum cruentum) , the leaves of which are three to four 

 feet long, and five to six inches wide, the flowering stem rises three 

 or four feet, and bears a cluster of large reddish flowers, from which 

 the dark-red bracts hang in slender tresses. The Barbadoes Lily 

 (Amaryllis eqnestrisj has narrow oblong leaves, the erect flowering 

 stem bears at its summit two or three large, nodding, vermilion- 

 coloured flowers. The Guernsey Lily (Nerine snrniensis) is another 

 general favourite, shortly before the leaves appear the slender 

 flowering stem rises from the earth about a foot in height and then 

 simultaneously unfolds a ray of eight or ten gold -besprinkled 

 flowers with wavy lobes. 



^ The Ataraasco Lily ( Zephyr anthes atumusco) bears a solitary erect 

 flower about three inches long, wliich arises with the leaves from the 

 bulb : both the white and pink varieties are cultivated. 



"^ Two smaller species of Zephyranthus, viz., Z. tulmpatha and Z. 

 rosea, the former with greenish-white, and the latter \vith red soli- 

 tary flowers, about an inch and a half in length, are very common in 

 gardens and arc not uncommonly met with as escapes ; the nan'ow, 



