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AMARYLLIDACE^E. 
This is a singular plant, if any reliance can be placed on 
the engraving. The declined cup marks an affinity to Eu- 
crosia, the only other genus in which it is found. 
53. Pancratium. — Bulb ovate or roundish ; perianth with a 
cylindrical tube and patent limb ; filaments stiff and 
conniving; anthers short, suberectly incumbent. A. 
flowers subsessile, with persistent leaves. B. pedun- 
culated, with deciduous leaves. C. sessile or subses- 
sile, with deciduous leaves. N.B. The colour of the 
flowers in this genus is invariably white with a tinge 
of green on the outside, except in Illyricum which 
has no green. 
A. Species subsessiles, foliis persistentibus. 
1. Maritimum. — Bot. Reg. 5. 161. Red. lil. 8. Flor. 
Graec. 4. t. 309. Semina mihi, t. 34. f. 21, 22. an- 
thera, 42. f. 7. Limb with segments attached to 
the cup, at about one-third from their base ; cup 
campanulate with two teeth between every pair of 
stamens ; filaments free about one-third of their 
length, decurrent in the cup ; flowers fugacious. 
2. Carolinianum. — Bot. Reg. 11. 927. foliis perperani 
viridibus. P. maritimum, Pursh. Anthera, PI. 
42. f. 8. 
B. Pedunculate, foliis deciduis. 
3. Canariense.— Bot. Reg. 2. 174. 
4. Illyricum. — Bot. Mag. 19. 718. Limbo rigidulo, co- 
rona brevi patenter infundibuliformi, interdum fissa, 
antheris erecto-incumbentibus infra medium affixis, 
stylo superne attenuato, seminibus rotundato-oblon- 
gis, raphe albicante. Genus Halmyra ? 
C. Sessiles aut subsessiles, foliis deciduis. Genus Tiaranthus ? 
5. Malabathricum. — Rheede, Hort. Mai. 11. 79. t. 40. 
Catulli-pola, floribus 7-8, (seminibus carnosis?) 
6. Verecundum. — Bot. Reg. 5. 413. Hort. Kew. Biflo- 
rum et Triflorum, Roxburgh. 
7. Zeylanicum. — Bot. Mag. 52. 2538. Bot. Reg. 6. 479. 
8. Cambayense. — PI. 42. f. 1. Specim. ex Cambay. 
Hove. Herb. Banks. O — 1. 
9. Longiflorum. — PI. 42. f. 2. Specim. Roxburgh. Herb. 
Banks. 
10. Maximum. — Forsksel. Flor. iEgypt. Arab. 72. 
