Genus 3. 



AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 



533 

 [In honor 



or obovoid, 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds numerous, horizontal, black. 

 of Daniel Cooper, i8i7?-i842, Curator, Botanical Society of London.] 



Two known species, natives of the southwestern United States and Mexico, the following being 

 the type. 



i. Cooperia Drummondii Herb. Drum- 

 mond's Cooperia. Fig. 1322. 



C. Drummondii Herb. Bot. Reg. pi. 1833. 1836. 



Bulb globose, about 1' in diameter. Leaves 

 6-12' long, 2"s" wide, erect; scape slender, 

 hollow, about as long as the leaves; spathe-like 

 bract 1-2' long, 2-cleft above into acuminate 

 lobes 4"-6" long; flower 3-5' high, white or 

 pinkish; tube of the perianth very slender, about 

 ii" in diameter, slightly expanded just below the 

 limb; segments oblong, obtuse and cuspidate or 

 acutish, nearly 1' long, 3"-4" wide, ovary sessile; 

 capsule somewhat obovoid, about ¥ in diameter, 

 deeply lobed. 



On prairies, Kansas to Louisiana, Texas, Mexico 

 and New Mexico. Prairie-lily. April-July. 



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



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

 white sessile or short-pedicelled umbelled flowers on erect solid scapes, each flower subtended 

 by 2 long membranous bracts. Perianth of 6 spreading or recurved narrow equal elongated 

 lobes, united below into a long cylindric tube. Stamens inserted in the top of the perianth- 

 tube, the lower parts of the long filaments connected by a membranous cup-like crown; an- 

 thers linear, versatile. Ovary 3-celled; ovules only 1 or 2 in each cavity; style filiform, long- 

 exserted ; stigma small, entire or nearly so. Capsule ovoid or globose, rather .fleshy. Seeds 

 usually only 1 or 2, large, green, fleshy. [Greek, beautiful membrane, referring to the crown.] 



About 30 species, all American. Besides the following, 10 others occur in the southern States. 

 Type species : Hymenocallis littoralis Salisb. 



i. Hymenocallis occidentalis (Le Conte) Kunth. 

 Hymenocallis. Fig. 1323. 



Pancratium carolinianum L. Sp. PI. 291. 1753?. 

 Pancratium occidentale LeConte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 146. 



1830. 

 Hymenocallis occidentalis Kunth, Enum. 5 : 856. 1850. 



Bulb large. Leaves linear-oblong, narrowed at each 

 end, fleshy, glaucous, i°-2° long, o/'-2' wide; scape 

 stout, equalling or longer than the leaves; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, 1Y-2I' long; umbel several-flowered; 

 perianth-tube il"-2" in diameter, 3'-s' long, the linear 

 lobes nearly as long; crown funnelform, narrowed be- 

 low, i'-il' long, its margins entire, erose or 2-toothed 

 between the filaments; free part of the filaments about 

 1' long, white; anthers about ¥ long and ¥' wide, yel- 

 low ; style extending for 2-3' beyond the crown, green ; 

 fruit 6"-kj" in diameter. 



In moist soil, Georgia to Alabama, southern Illinois, Mis- 

 souri and Arkansas. July-Sept. 



5. MANFREDA Salisb. Gen. PI. Fragm. 78. ic 

 Fleshy herbs with bujbiferous roofstocks and bracted scapes, the leaves basal, and large 

 bracted flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. Perianth tubular or funnelform, withering- 

 persistent, of 6 erect or spreading equal or nearly equal lobes, united below into a tube. 

 Stamens inserted on the perianth, exserted ; filaments flattened or filiform ; anthers versatile. 

 Ovary 3-celled, style slender, exserted, 3-lobed ; ovules numerous, in 2 rows in each cavity of 



