78 AMARYLLIDACEAE. 



so, usually flattened. [Aboriginal name.] About 35 species, natives of America. 

 Type species: Amaryllis Atamasco L. 



Flower rose-pink, 2-3 cm. wide. 1. A. rosea. 



Flower bright red, 7-8 cm. wide. 2. A. cardinalis. 



1. Atamosco rosea (Lindl.) Greene, Pittonia 3: 188. 1897. 



Zephyranthes rosea Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 10: pi. 821. 1824. 



Bulbs subglobose, usually less than 2 cm. in diameter, short-necked. 

 Scape rather slender, 2 dm. high or less, as long as the leaves or longer; 

 leaves 3-4 mm. wide; spathe about half as long as the peduncle, 2-cleft at the 

 top; perianth 2-3 cm. long, rose-pink, with a short tube and obovate bluntish 

 segments; style 3-cleft; capsule about 8 mm. thick. 



Roadsides, spontaneous after cultivation. New Providence and on Grand Turk 

 where it was observed carpeting a pasture of over five acres in extent. Native of 

 Cuba. Erroneously called CROCUS and SNOWDROP. SMALL PINK ATAMASCO-LILLY. 



2. Atamosco cardinalis (C. H. Wright) Britton. 



Zephyranthes cardinalis C. H. Wright, Bot. Mag. pi. 8553. 1914. 



Bulbs up to 6 cm. in diameter. Scape rather stout, 10-12 cm. high, pink 

 at the base, green above, about as long as the leaves ; leaves 6-8 mm. wide ; 

 spathe somewhat longer than the peduncle, acute, pink, 2-3 cm. long; perianth 

 bright red, its funnelform tube 2-3 cm. long, its oblong-oblanceolate segments 

 4-5 cm. long. 



Grown in Bahama gardens ; perhaps native somewhere in the archipelago. 

 RED ATAMASCO-LILY. 



5. HYMENOCALLIS Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 338. 1812. 



Mostly tall bulbous herbs with usually lanceolate or linear-oblong leaves, 

 and large white capitate or umbelled flowers on solid scapes, each flower sub- 

 tended by 2 membranous bracts. Perianth of 6 spreading or recurved, narrow 

 equal elongated lobes, united below into a long cylindric tube. Stamens in- 

 serted in the top of the perianth-tube, the lower parts of the long filaments con- 

 nected by a membranous crown; anthers linear, versatile. Ovary 3 -celled; 

 ovules only 1 or 2 in each cavity; style filiform, long-exserted ; stigma small, 

 entire or nearly so. Capsule rather fleshy. Seeds usually only 1 or 2, large, 

 green, fleshy. [Greek, beautiful membrane, referring to the crown.] About 

 30 species, all American. Type species: Hymenocallis littoralis Salisb. 



Perianth-segments as long as the tube or longer. . 1. H. declinata. 



Perianth-segments shorter than the tube. 2. H. caymanensis. 



1. Hymenocallis declinata (Jacq.) M. J. Eoem. Fam. Nat. 4: 171. 1847. 



Pancratium declinatum Jacq. Select. Am. 99. 1763. 

 Hymenocallis arenicola Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club. 12: 28. 1902. 



Bulb subglobose, often 8 cm. in diameter. Leaves fleshy, sessile, nearly 

 linear or linear-oblong, 6 dm. long or less, 4-6 cm. wide, rounded or acute at 

 the apex, gradually narrowed to the broadened base, many-nerved, dark green; 

 scape stout, as long as the leaves or shorter; flowers 5-13, sessile, fragrant; 

 bracts ovate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3-6 cm. long; ovary oblong, 

 1-1.5 cm. long; perianth-tube slender, 5-10 cm. long; perianth-segments 



