OLii. AMARTiiLiDEj). (J. D. Hooker.) " 285 



4 PANCRATXVnK, Linn. 



RooUtocTc bulbous. Leaves often bifarioas, linear or lanceolate. Scape 

 solid. Flowers large, umbelled or solitary; spathes 1-2, membranous ; 

 bracts few, linear, byaline. Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube long or_ short ; 

 lobes narrow. Stamens on the throat of the perianth, filaments united by 

 a toothed or lobed membrane forming a cup ; anthers dorsifixed. Style 

 fiUform, stigma small ; ovules many superposed in each cell. Capsule 

 large, sabglobosely 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds angled, testa lar black. — 

 Species about 12, S. European, Indian and African. 



* Perianth- tube 1^-2 in. Staminal cup small. — Bulh without a neck. 



1. P. triflorum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 126 ; scape 4r8-fld., perianth-tube 

 longer than the linear lobes, filaments short. Kunth Enum. v. 661. Baher 

 Sandb. of Am,aryllid. 128. P. malabathrioum, Herb. Amwryllid. 206. 

 Orinum pauciflorum, Miquel Plant exsioc. Hohenaclcer. — Sheede Sort. 

 Mai. xi. t. 40. 



Bengai, Roxburgh. Decoan Peninsula, Canara. CErioN, Thwaites. 



Sulb globose, 1^-2 in. diam., neck 0. Leaves not bifarious, 8-12 by J-f in., 

 lanceolate, acute. Scape 6-9 in., slender; spathe single, oyate, acute, pedicels very 

 short. Flowers ftagTSLnt ; tube 1^-2 in., throat dilated, lobes f-1 in.; staminal 

 cup ^ in. diam., with 2-fid teeth between the short filaments. 



2. P. zeylanicum, Linn. Sp. PI. 290; scape 1-fld., perianth-tube as 

 long as the lanceolate lobes or shorter, throat broadly funnel-shaped, 

 filaments much longer than the broad shallow 12-toothed cup. Ktmth 

 Enum. V. 662 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 124 ; Thwaites Enum. 324 ; Wall. Cat. 

 8973 A; Baher Eandb. of AmarylUd. 118; Bot. Reg. t. 479; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2538. P. tiaraeflorum, Salisb. Par. Lond. t. 86. 



Teopical Asia and OETioif. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Bulh globose, 1^2 in. diam. ; neck 0. Leaves 8-12, bifarious, 6-11 in., linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate. Scape shorter than the leaves ; npathes as long as the 

 cofolla-tube. Flowers sessile, white, fragrant, 2-3 in. diam. ; cup broad, sub- 

 equally 12-toothed, teeth large ; filaments 1-lJ in. longer than the cup ; anthers 

 \m. 



** Perianth-tube 3-4 in. Staminal cup broad. — Bulb with a long nech. 



3. P. verecundum, Ait. Sort. Kew, i. 412; scape stout about 

 equalling the oblanceolate leaves or longer 2-6-fld., spathes 2, filaments 

 much longer than the teeth of the cup. Kunth Fnum. v. 661 ; Bot. Beg. 

 t. 413 ; Herb. Amaryllid. 206 ; Baker Handh. of Amaryllid. 119 {excl. syn. 

 Wight.) 



Foot of the Himalaya, from the Panjab eastwards to Sifckim. 



Bulh globose, 2 in. diam. ; neck cylindric. Leaves thin, l-lj by i-J in., acumi- 

 nate. Scape 12 in., compressed ; spathes lanceolate ; pedicels short. Perianth- 

 tube 3-4 in., throat obconic ; lobes 1| in., linear ; staminal cup obconic, J-1 in. long, 

 with a bifid tooth between the filaments ; style longer than the stamens. — The above 

 description is from Baker. 



4. P. biflorum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 125 ; scape 2-3-fld., perianth-tube 

 slender trigonous as long as the linear lobes, throat not dilated, filaments 

 about as long as the funnel-shaped erose cup. PP. longifloram, Herb. 

 Amaryllid. 208, t. 42, f . 2. 



