1612 OXXXI. AMAEYLLIDE^. [Eunjde». 



lOin. long and as broad or broader, with numerous arcuate rather distant veins 

 and transverse veinlets between them. Scapes 1 to 2ft. high, bearing an umbel 

 oJ! numerous white flowers. Bracts of the involucre 2 or 8, shorter than the 

 pedicels, which vary from J to near 2in. long, articulate immediately under the 

 ovary. Perianth above 2in. long, the lobes elliptical-oblong, rather longer than 

 the tube. Corona 4 to 5 lines long, divided to below the middle into 6 lobes,, 

 each one divided at the apex into 2 lanceolate acuminate diverging lobes with the- 

 filament between them ; stamens altogether shorter than the perianth. — Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. under t. 8399 ; Pancratium amboinense, Linn., Bed. Lil. t. 884 , Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1419; E%irycles sylvestris, Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 337 ; Kunth, 

 Enum. V. 689, with several synonyms ; PMicratium australasicum, Ker. in Bot. 

 Eeg. t. 715 ; Eiorycles cmstralasica,, Loud. Bneyl. 242 ; E. australis, Sohult. Syst.. 

 vii. 911 ; Kunth, Enum. v. 691. 



Hab.: Islands of Caincross, Veitch (with flowers 2Jin. long) ; Kookiugham Bay, Dallachy ;. 

 Mount Elliott, FiUalan. The species is also in the Indian Archipelago. 



2. E. Cunninghamii (after A. Cunningham), Ait. MS. ; Lindl. Bot. Bey., 

 t. 1506 ; Benth. Fl. Aitstr. vi. 456. Bulbs about lin. diameter. Leaves on long 

 petioles, ovate, not cordate, but veined as in E. amboinensis, varying from 4 to 

 lOin. long. Scapes about 1ft. high, with an umbel of 6 to 10 flowers surrounded 

 by 2 or 3 bracts. Perianth 1 to IJin. long, the tube rather shorter than the 

 obovate- oblong lobes. Corona about f the length of the perianth, with, 

 2 lanceolate lobes to each filament, and sometimes splitting lower down between, 

 them. Fruit apparently succulent, nearly globular, about Jin. diameter, but not 

 quite ripe.— Bot. Mag. t. 3399. 



Hab : Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Muellei; Leichliardt, G. Stuart 

 and others ; Eockhampton, Botmnan. 



5. CALOSTEMMA, E. Br. 



(Alluding to the pretty crown of flowers.) 



Perianth at length deciduous, with a slender but usually short tube and a 

 funnel-shaped or spreading nearly equal 6-parted limb. Stamens 6, inserted 

 at the mouth of the tube ; filaments united to about the middle in a tubular 

 corona, truncate or shortly lobed between the free parts of the filaments ;. 

 anthers 2-lobed at the base. Ovary 1-eelled, with 2 or 3 ovules collaterally 

 attached to one side of the cavity. .Style filiform, obtuse, with a terminal 

 stigma. Fruit globular, succulent, ripening usually only one rather large fleshy 

 seed. — Bulbous herbs. Leaves all radical, narrow with close parallel veins or- 

 broad with more distant veins and transverse veinlets. Scapes leafless. Flowers, 

 variously coloured, smaller than in Eurychs, in a terminal umbel surrounded by 

 2 or 3 membranous bracts. 



The genus is endemic in Australia. The remarkable reduction of the ovary to a single celt 

 appears to be due to tbe early abortion of two of the carpels. — Benth. 



Leaves linear. Perianth-tube dilated under the limb. Flowers yellow .... 1. C lutemn. 

 Leaves ovate. Perianth-tube not dilated under the limb. Flowers white . . . 2. C album.. 



1. C luteum (yellow), Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2101 ; Be^ith. Fl. Austr. vi. 457- 

 Corona-tube narrow with purple lined in the lower half, usually truncate 

 between the filaments or minutely toothed, but sometimes produced into short 

 broad entire or notched lobes. Stamens often shortly exceeding the perianth. — 

 Kunth, Enum. v. 688 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 421 and 1840, t. 19 ; C. candiJwn, Lindl. 

 in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 54 ; Kunth, I.e. 



Hab.: Eockhampton, Thozet, O'Shanesy; Barooo, Schneider; Darling Downs, iaro ; Cooper's- 

 Creek. 

 This plant has been considered poisonous to stock. ' 



