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CRINUM pedunculatum. 



Botany-hay Lily or Cnmnn. 





HEX AXDRI A MOXOG YXL1. 



CRINUM. 



TJmheUa ra mentis bracteaceis inters tincta, spafham 

 generalem bivalvem excedens. Ca/.O. t%\ super a, regulari*, tUbuloso- 



sexfida ; tubus strictus ; limbus sexpnrtitus, railiatus, subaMjualis. Shim. 

 tubo adnata, inde divergentia ; auth. linrarcs, vibrate. Stutlt* re< linatiis. 



Caps* membranacea, oblato-sphaerica, pulvinato-triloba, 3-loc. ; sem. 



numerbsa, horizontalia, duplfci seiie cumulata, maiginl interior^ septi 



utrinque annexa, anrjuloso-compivssa, vel nunc in loculameritd quod 

 replet precociu^ve dirumpit ta ntumnwdv unum aut alteram cmollesceute 



albumine tuberoso-laxatum. 



Ah Amauyllidibus hi 



ip ids 



tufathsis -solum mod o regularitate 

 corolla discrepans ; a Panck atio defect;! membrana ttamini/ega* 

 Hjemantho valdt ajjlne. Bulbils modo caudicis vel stipitis ad in star 



productus, tot us extat 



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hratevi lanceolate! y canaliculato-cxplkaiida. 



C. pedunculatum ; btdbo cjlindrico, glabra ; scapo central!, Iato-com- 



presso ; umbella pedunculata; stvlo staminibus bitvioie. 



Crioum pedunculatum. Brown prod. 1.297* 

 Grinum tai tense. Redoute liliac. 408. 



Crinum uustrale. Dunn cant. ed. 6. 83. 



A genus connected by the closest affinity with Amaryllis, 



from the larger tubular-flowered species of which it differs 



only by the greater regularity in the disposition of the seg- 

 ments of the corolla. 



The present plant is a native of New South Wales, and 

 has been very generally confounded with Cuimm asiaticum; 

 tile cause 



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se, most probably, of its not having found a place in 

 e edition of the I Tortus Kcwensis. But it differs 



larg< 



from that species, by the bulb, which grows upon a 

 root stock entirely above ground, is smooth and of a cv- 

 lindric form, resembling very much that of the leek, 



ex- 



cept in dimension, which varies from the circumference 



to three times that size, and even more; 



of a 



man s arm 



also by a broader flattened stem, and 



a stvle that is 



shorter than the filaments. Leaves many, fasciculate, mul- 

 tifariously divergent, broadly lorate-lanceolate, involute!} 



concave, 



smooth and entire at the edges, two or three feet 



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