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1062 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Pancratium. 
in a 3-celled ovary; ovules many, 2-seriate in each loculus ; style 
long, filiform; stigma small, capitate. Fruit a considerable, sub- 
globosely 3-cornered, loculicidally 3-valved capsule. Seeds many, 
angular ; testa thick, lax, black. 
Scape stout, as long as leaves or longer; spathes 2; perianth-throat 
dilated, tube cylindric; staminal cup obconic, with a 2-fid tooth between 
each pair of filaments verecundum, 
Scape compressed, shorter than the leaves; spathes 3-4; perianth-throat 
not dilated, tube trigonous ; staminal cup funnel-shaped, erose, but not 
toothed between each pair of filaments biflorum., 
2195. PANCRATIUM VERECUNDUM Ait.; F. B. I. vi. 285. 
A bulbou 
2196. Pancratium BirLoruM Roxb.; F. I. ii. 125; F. B. I. vi. 285. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A bulbous herb. 
Order CXXXIII. TACCACEA, 
Perennial herbs ; rootstock tuberous or creeping. Leaves radical, 
large, long-petioled, undivided and costate, or pinnately lobed 
and reticulate veined. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, densely 
umbellate at the apex of a long, leafless scape ; outer bracts few, 
usually 4, leafy and broad, forming an involucre, sometimes 
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pendent. Pertanth usually lurid, corolline or subherbaceous, 
te 
of outer series sometimes the larger. Stamens 6, adnate to 
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oe cucullate above the anthers, with 2 ribs or horns on the 
er face; anthers sessile under the hood ; cells 2; dehiscence 
heehee Carpels 8, connate in an inferior, 8-cornered, 1- 
locular ovary, al 3 parietal placentas ; ovules many, anatropous 
or almost amphitropous on each placenta; style short, columnar, 
usually 8-cornered, included; stigmas 3, often petaloid, broad, 
2-fid and inflexed like an umbrella above the style. Frwit globose; 
ovoid, turbinate, or oblong, 3-6-ribbed, forming an in ehiscent 
, or rarely a 8-yalved capsule. Seeds many, ovoid, com- 
