366 AMABYLiiiDE^. lAmaryllidets. 



Fruit succulent. Hairy plant, witt a tufted or tuberous stock. 



Mowers small, yellow, in an almost sessile spike , . 1. CuBCUHOO, 



Fruit capsular. Glabrous bulbous plants. Flowers large, white, umbel- 

 late. 



Stamens inserted at the base into a cup within the perianth-lobes . . 8. Pancratium. 



Stamens separately inserted on the perianth, the filaments not dilated ?. Cbinum. 



1. CUECULIGO, Gsertn. 



Perianth regular, the tube long, often filiform, the limb of 6 equal deciduous 

 segments. Ovules several in each cell of the ovajy. Stigmas 3. Fruit ob- 

 long, succulent, crowned by the persistent perianth-tube. Seeds enveloped in 

 a fleshy pulp, with a lateral beak-shjaped hilum.— Tufted plants, usually hairy. 

 Leaves long, mostly radical. Flowers sessile, in sheathing bracts, in a sessile 

 or pedunculate head or spike. 



A tropical genus, limited to the Old World, with the exception of one S. American species, 



1. C. orchioides, Boxh. PI. Coram, i. 14, t. 13 j Bot. Mag. t. 1076, 

 var. minor. Leaves radical, grass-like, and seldom above 6 in. long and 3 

 lines wide in the Hongkong specimens, sometimes in India twice as long and 

 broad. Spike nearly sessile, with narrow sheathing bracts. Perianth haiiy ; 

 the tube filiform, about f in. long ; the Umb yellow, 5 or 6 lines long, with 

 lanceolate pointed segments. Ovary long and narrow, 3-celled. Capsule 

 succulent, usually l-ceUed, with very few seeds separated by a spongy sub- 

 stance. — Hypoxia minor. Seem. Bot. Her. 419 ; not of Don. 



Common in spring, Champion, Se^matm, Sance. Dispersed over India, from the Penin- 

 sula to Khasia and the Archipelago. It is also closely aUied to the S. American Hypoxia 

 scoreonert^olia. Lam., which is surely a Curculigo, and to the Australian C. ensifolia. It is 

 only at first sight that it resembles the Hypoxis minor, Don, which has no tube to the 

 perianth. ' 



a. CRINUM, Linn. 



Perianth with a long tube and a regular 6-cleft Umb, the segments spread- 

 ing or recurved. Stamens inserted at the summit of the tube ; filaments free, 

 filiform; anthers linear, versatile. Ovules usually few in each cell. Style 

 filiform, with an entire or 3-lobed stigma. Capsule globular, depressed, burst- 

 ing irregularly. Seeds few, nearly globular, often converted into fleshy bulbs. 

 — .Large bulbous glabrous herbs. Leaves radical. Mowers usually large, 

 white or tinged with purple, in an umbel or head proceeding from a 2- or 3- 

 leaved spatha. 



A tropical or subtropical genus, dispersed over the New and the Old World. 



1. C asiaticum, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. v. 547; Bot. Mag. t. 1078. Bulb 

 large and long. Leaves 1 to 3 ft. long, 1 to 3 in. broad. Scape about 1 ft. 

 high. Spatha reflexed, membranous, lloyvers nuijierous, sessile or shortly 

 pedunculatQ, Perianth-tube about 3 in. long ; the segments linear, about 2 

 in. Ovules solitary in each cell of the ovary. 



On the seashore at Saywan, Champion ; at Sheko, Hance. Generally on the sandy sea- 

 coasts of tropical Asia. 



3. PANCRATIUM, I^inn. 

 Flowers of Orinum, except that the filaments are united at the base into a 

 petal-like cup, the margin of which is truncate, toothed or lobed between the 



