Gnnum.2 clii. AMAEYLLiDBa:, (J. D. Hooker.) 283 



declinate. Mowers fragrant, white; filaments red. Ovarian cells 3-i-ovv.led. 



Eoxburgh's figure of longifolmm represents a plant with a bulb i^ in. diam. having 

 a neck 2-2i in. , leaves obtuse concave ciliolate, scape very stout, flowers sessile, 

 perianth-tube 34-4 in., stout, green, lobes 3 in. by i in., linear, obtuse, greenish 

 externally, filaments as long, red, anthers | in., yellow. — Herbert and Baker include 

 under C. pratense, the 0. lorifoUum, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 131, from Pegu, with weak 

 spreading leaves 4-5 ft. long ; 0. elegans, Carey (Bot. Mag. t. 2592), with a nar- 

 rower long-necked bulb and the perianth lobes an inch shorter than the tube (in 

 the Bot. Mag. drawing the leaves are acute and the perianth lobes longer than the 

 tube) ; C. venusium, Carey, from Silhet, with 30-fld. umbels ; C. canalifolium, Carey, 

 with leaves an inch broad, more channelled, rather glaucous, and about 10 flowers 

 pale reddish externally. 



Sect. III. CODONOCKINUM. Perianth funnel-shaped, tube upcurved, lobes 

 oblong or lanceolate. Stamens very long, declinate. 



11. C. latifolium, Linn. 8p. PI. 291 ; leaves many 2-3 ft. by 3-4 in. 

 lorate thin margin subscabrid, scape 2-3 ft. stout, umbels 10-20-fld., spathes 

 3-4 in. lanceolate, pedicels very short, perianth-tube 3-6 in., lobes as long 

 or shorter elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate much longer than the stamens. 

 Ker-Gawl. in Quart. Journ. Sci. & Arts iii. 114 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 137; Lindl. 

 in Bot. Beg. t. 1297 ; Wight Ic. t. 2019, 2020 ; Baker Sandb. of Amaryllid. 

 87 ; And/r. Bot. Bep. t. 478. C. zeylanicum, Linn. Syst. Veg. 263 ; Kunth 

 I. c. 573 ; Boxb. I. c. 138 ; Bury Hexand. PI. t. 29 ; Baker I. c. 87 ; Wall. 

 Gat. 8972. 0. ornatum, Serb. Amaryll. 262 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1171 ; Bury I. c. 

 1. 18 ; Bot. Beg. t. 579, and 1297 ; Thw. , JEnum. 324. 0. speciosum, Herb. 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 2217. 0. ornatum, vars. latifolium, zeylanicum and Her- 

 bertiauum. Herb. Amaryll. 262, 263 ; Kunth JEnum. v. 574. C. speoiooissi- 

 mum, Herb, in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2121. C. Herbertianum, Wall. PI. As. 

 Bar. ii. 39, t. 145. 0. insigne, Schultes Syst. vii. 859. 0. Wallichianum, 

 Boem. C. Linnaei, Boem. C. Careyanum, Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 2466. C. 

 molucoanum, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 140 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2292. 0. asiaticum. 

 Wall. Cat. 8969 B in pari, 0, 1, inpart. Amaryllis zeylanica, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 293. A. insignis, Ker-Gawl. in Bot. Beg. t. 579. A. latifolia, L. Herit. 

 Bert. Angt. 14; Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 57; Ker.-Gawl. in Quart. Journ. Sci. ^ 

 Arts, iii. 114. — Bheede Hort. Mai. xi. t. 39. 



Throughout India, Buema and Ceylon, wild or cultivated. — Disteib. Tropical 

 Asia, Malaya and Africa. 



Bulb 5-6 in. diam., globose, neck short. Leaves bright green, keeled and waved. 

 Scape and spathes green reddish or purple. Flowers very variable in size, fragrant, 

 white more or less streaked or tinged with red towards the centre or red purple 

 sometimes nearly all over the backs of the lobes. Filaments 2j-3 in., anthers 

 i-i in. Ovarian cells 5-6-ovuled. Fruit subglobose, 1^—2 in. diam, — I am quite 

 unable to find any characters whereby C. latifoliwn and zeylanicum are to be dis- 

 tinguished, and Mr. Baker gives none. The name C, ornatum seems to be applied 

 to forms of either or to include both, and so of the other forms cited above, if they or 

 any of them have specific characters, they remain to be indicated: Herbert's accounts 

 of them (and of the species generally) in the Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences, 

 in his enumeration of the species in Bot. Mag. under t. 2121, and in his work on 

 Amaryllids, are all singularly unclear. Of all the figured forms that of 0. latifolium, 

 in the Botanical Register, t. 1297, differs most from the others in its much smaller 

 size, neaily white undulate perianth lobes faintly suffused with pink, long perianth - 

 tube, and style twice as long as the stamens. It is included by Herbert under C. 

 ornatum as longistylum. — Roxburgh describes both latifolium and zeylanicum as 

 natives of Bengal, and thus distinguishes them. 0. latifolium, Linn. (Am. ornata, 

 Sot. Mag. t. 923) ; bulb spherical, leaves 3-5 in. broad lanceolate obtuse margins 

 scabrous, scape 12-21 in. compressed green 10-20-fld., flowers almost white, anthers 



