248 A FLORA OP MANILA 



Cultivated for ornamental purposes, also in open places near the sea, 

 flowering most of the year; throughout the Philippines near the sea. India 

 to Malaya. 



*2. C. ZEYLANicuM L. Lilio (Sp.-Fil.). 



Stout, glabrous, the bulbs globose 10 to 15 era in diameter. Stems stout, 

 short, erect. Leaves up to 1 m long, 7 to 10 cm wide. Peduncles stout, 

 about as long as the leaves, with 10 to 20 umbellately arranged, reddish, 

 fragrant flowers. Pedicels short. Flowers long, the tube slender, about 

 10, cm long, the limb usually a little longer, the segments oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, about 2 cm wide, purplish-red, margined with white, paler inside. 



Cultivated for ornamental purposes, fl. June-^iig., and probably in 

 other months. Tropical Asia and Africa, introduced in the Philippines and 

 not spontaneous. 



•3. C. LATiFOLiUM L. Lilio (Sp.-Fil.). 



Bulb subglobose, up to 10 cm or more in diameter. Leaves 60 to 100 cm 

 long, 5 to a cm wide. Peduncles stout, solid, green, 2 to 2.6 cm in diameter, 

 up to 60 cm in length. Flowers about 10 in each umbel, fragrant, sessile 

 or shortly pedicelled, the spathe-valves thin, about 8 cm long, oblong-ovate, 

 acute. Perianth tube 10 to 12 cm long, purplish below, greenish above, 

 curved at the apex, 6 to 7 mm in diameter, the limb campanulate, horizontal 

 or ascending, 10 to 12 cm long, the segments about 3 cm wide, white flushed 

 with pale purple in the median part. Filaments white, declinate. 



Occasionally cultivated, fl. June-Oct., and probably in other months; 

 introduced from tropical Asia. 



5. PANCRATIUM Linnaeus 



Herbaceous, from a thick, underground bulb. Leaves few, 2-ranked, 

 narrow. Scape from the bulb, solid. Flowers large, white, solitary (in 

 our species) . Perianth funnel-shaped, the tube elongated, the limb spread- 

 ing, the lobes 6, narrow. Stamens erect, inserted on the throat of the 

 perianth, united by a toothed or lobed membrane which forms a cup; 

 anthers dorsifixed. Style slender; ovules many in each cell. Capsule sub- 

 globose, 3-angled, loculicidal. (Greek "all" and "strength.") 



Species about 12, southern Europe, Asia,, and Africa, a single introduced 

 one in the Philippines. 



•1. P. ZEYLANICUM L. 



Bulb subglobose or ovoid, about 5 cm in diameter. Leaves 6 to 8, 

 2-ranked, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 25 cm long and 2 cm wide.^ 

 Scape somewhat shorter than the leaves, slightly compressed. Flowers 

 solitary, erect, white. Corolla-tube 4 to 5 cm long, the membranaceous 

 part connecting the stamens about 5 cm in diameter, with 12 large, 

 acuminate teeth, the perianth-lobes recurved, lanceolate, acuminate, about 

 5 cm long, 1 cm wide. Filaments erect, the free parts about 3 cm long. 

 (Fl. Filip. pi. SSI.) 



Occasionally found in gardens, flowering all the year; introduced from 

 India or Ceylon. 



6. HYMENOCALLIS Salisbury 



Rootstock stout, tunicated, the leaves numerous, long, sessile. Peduncle 

 solid, erect, bearing many, white,' fragrant flowers in a terminal: umbel. 

 Perianth salver-shaped, the tube cylindric, the segments linear, equal, 



