no&A OF ADEN. 
to the bases of the perianth-segments, rarely epigynons ; filaments free 
or connate ; anthers erect or versatile. Ovary 3 -celled, inferior ; ovules 
many, anatropous, 2 -seriate on the inner angles of the cells ; style 
slender; stigma simple or 3-cleft. 
Fruit inferior, usually a loculioidal capsule, rarely fleshy and bursting 
irregularly. Seeds few or many ; albumen fleshy, enclosing the small 
-embryo. 
Genera 64 ; species about 650. 
Distribution : — Temperate and tropical regions. 
Pancratium Linn. 
Herbs with tunicate bulbs. Leaves linear or lanceolate, oftem 
bifarious. 
Flowers large, umbellate or solitary, sessile or pedicellate, within one 
or two membranous spathes ; bracteoles few, linear, hyaline. Perianth 
funnel-shaped ; tube usually long, widened at the mouth ; lobes 6, 
narrow, suberect, subequal. Stamens 6, shorter than the perianth, 
adnate to its throat ; filaments filiform, but connate below in a petaloid 
membranous cup, the edge of which between the free filaments may be 
toothed or lobed ; anthers oblong or shortly linear, dorsifixed. Ovary 
3-celled ; ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell ; style long, filiform ; 
stigma small, capitate. 
Fruit a large, subglobosely 3-angled, loculicidally 3-valved capsule. 
Seeds many, angular ; testa thick, lax, black. 
Species about 14. 
Distribution : — Widely spread through the sub temperate and tropical 
regions of the Old World. 
Leases much twisted . .. . , , 1, P. tortuosum. 
Leaves not twisted „ .... . 2. P. maximum. 
1. Pancratium tortuosum Herb, in Ann. Nat. Hist. IV (1840) 28.; 
Kunth Enum. PI. V, 663; Poem. Syn. AmarylL p. 178 ; Anders. Journ. 
Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 37 ; Baker Handb. AmarylL p. 120 ; Boiss. 
FI. Or. Y, 153 ; This.-Dyer FI. Trop. Afr. YII, 406. 
Pancratium tortifolium Boiss. Diag. PI. Or. ser. I, XIII, 18. 
Description .“—Bulb globose, I'J — 2 inches in diameter, with a long 
cylindrical neck. Leaves 6 — 12, linear, contemporary with the flowers, 
$ — 1 foot long, conspicuously spirally twisted, moderately firm, 
glabrous. 
Peduncle very short, moderately stout. Flowers 2 — 4 in an umbel $ 
pedicels very short ; spathe-valve large, ovate, membranous. Perianth-* 
.tube 5 — 6 inches long, dilated at the apex ; segments linear, ascending? 
