LILIACE^: 583 



l"long, little shorter than tlie tabe.— Hab. Antigua!, Wulhchl.; [Preach islands! to 



6. PANCRATroM, L. 



Pengonial tube long, slender, bearing a crown at its throat : limb 6-partite. Stamens 

 inserted into the crown : filaments long : anthers iucumbent, Stt/le simple. Capsule locu- 

 lloide ! seeds fleshy. — Leaves rosulatefrom a bulb ; scape terminated by a cluster of large 

 flowers : perigonial lobes, narrow. 



7. P. caribseum, i. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, tapering at the base; flowers 13-6, 

 sessile, white : tube of the perigone straight, filiform, shorter than the lobes ; crown infun- 

 dibular, half as long as the stamens, sinuate : its teeth produced into the filaments ; anthers 

 attached below the middle. — Commelyn, Hort. 2. t. 87. Jacq. Amer. Pict. 1. 102. — Hyme- 

 nocallis, fferb. H. Sloanei, Soim. P. declinatum, Jacg. P. amcenum, Salisb. {Linn. Trans- 

 act. 2. t. 10). P. pateus, iZea?.— Leaves 3"-4" (-2") broad; perigonial tube 2"-3", limb 

 3"-4", crown about 1" long. — Hab. Jamaica ; S. Kitts, Antigua !, Wullschl. ; Domiuica !, 

 Tmr. ; [Guiana I]. 



8. F. pateus, lAndl. ifion Sed.). Leaves lanceolate-oblong, tapering at the base; 

 flowers 4-6, sessile, white ; tube of the perigone straightish, filiform, longer than (or as long 

 as) the lobes: crown infundibular, longer than hay' the stamens, repajidL: its teeth pro- 

 duced into the filaments ; anthers attached much beloitt the middle. — Hymenocallis cayma- 

 nensis. Herb. — ^Leaves 3" broad ; perigonial tube 5"-3",^limb 4''-3", crown 16'" long. — 

 Hab. Jamaica !, March. ; [Great Kayman]. 



9. P. carolinianum, L. (ex Oatesb.). Leaves linear, sessile; flowers 4-3 (-8), sessile, - 

 white : tube of the perigone straight, filiform, longer than the lobes : crown campanulate; 

 as long as the stamens, \%-dentate : alternate teeth produced into the filaments ; anthers , 

 attached at the middle. — Oatesb. Oarolin. App. t. 5. — P. rotatum, Ker (Hymenocallis, 

 Herb.). — Leaves 1" broad; perigonial tube 4"-5", limb 3"-4", crown li"-2" long. — Hab. 

 Jamaica I, March ; [United States to Mexico]. 



7. CRINUM, L. 



Perigonial tube long, slender, nated : limb 6-partite. Stamens inserted into the throat 

 of the perigone : filaments long : anthers incumbent. Style simple. Capsule " evalved : 

 seeds fleshy." — Leaves rosulate from a columnar or globose bulb ; scape terminated by a 

 cluster of large flowers. 





10. C. erubescens, ^it., (Herb., non Jacq.). Leaves linear, with <• bluntish point, 

 scabrous at the margin: ribs parallel; flowers 4-12, sessile, whitish; perigonial tube 

 straightish, filiform to the sum.mit, about twice as long as the expanded limb : lobes nar- 

 rowly linear; stamens spreading. — Herb. Amur. t. 44./. 12: the flower. — C. guianense, 

 Miem. /—Leaves V'-li" broad ; perigonial tube 6", lobes 4"-3" long, the latter 3"'-4"' 

 broad. — Hab. Jamaica!, Dist., in ditches; [Guiana!]. 



11. C. longiflormn, Herb. Leaves linear or oblong-linear, acimiinate, slightly sca- 

 brous at the margin: ribs parallel; /owe™ 6-12, sessile, whitish and pnrple-variegated ; 

 perigonial tube cernuous, filiform, gradually dilated at the summit into the campanulate- 

 infundibular limb, exceeding it in length: lobes oblong-lanceolate, mucronate-pointed ; 

 stamens declined.— Soi. Reg. t. 303.— I exclude the figure of Bot. Mag. t. 2336 (said to 

 represent a hybrid from 0. capense and erubescens), which has pedicellate flowers. Leaves 

 l'^2" broad ; perigonial tube 6"-5", limb 4"-3" long : lobes connivent, at length spreading, 

 10'" broad : their mucro of variable length, often 4'" long.— Hab. Jamaica !, March ; An- 

 tigua !, Wullschl. 



** Leaf-veins in curves from the midrib. 



12 C floridanum, Eraser (inedit.J. Leaves oval, or aval-oblong, bluntish, tapering 

 into the jietiole, glabrous at the margin : lateral ribs curved ; flowers ir-Z, pedicellate, white ; 



