СРИНИН 
179 
CRINUM bracteatuin. и 
` Short-leaved Crinum. 
\ А — 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ~ 
Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. 
AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 296. Sect. Т. Radix bulbosa. 
Flores spathacei umbellati, raré solitarit. 
CRINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 52. 
С. bracteatum, bulbo subcolumnari; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusé acu- 
minatis cum puncto cartilagineo, margine levissiniis, subundulatis; 
umbella multiflora pedunculata pallido-bracteosa; limbo tubo sub- 
longiore; stylo breviore staminibus. - ] 
‘Crinum bracteatum. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 47. Jacq» hort. scheenb. 4. 1. t. 495. 
-Crinum brevifolium. Roxburgh MSS. cum tab. pict. In the Library of the 
East India Company. у ; 
Bulbus magnus ovalo-cylindraceus 4-5-uncialis, non verd porraceus w. pro- 
ductus in collum, radiculis crassis. Folia plurima, multifaria, patentia, 1- 
sesquipedalia, uncias 8-5 lata, utrinque striata, exteriora sapiüs cartilagine 
tenni alba integerrimá abeunte іп cuspidem callosam marginata, deorsim bre- 
« (оног angustata atque erecta. Scapus B-untialis ad pedalem, ха com- 
pressus, intüs planior, extis cómvezior,  Umbella 10-20-flora, conspicue 
"distincta bracteis pallidis lanceolatis tubum subsuperantibus. Spatha 3-uncialis, 
Flores magni, alli, odori, brevà pedunculati, uncias 5 in extensum superantes: 
tubus rectus, terelinsculus, obsoleto trigonus, calamum crassus; lacinie limbi 
‘recurvo-stellate, lanceolato-lineares, subaquales, eequantes w. subsiperantes 
tubum, exteriores tertíam em uncie lute, canaliculato-concave, interiores 
‘angustiores planiores. ЕЙ. regulari-divergentia, ex tertiá parte breviora 
„limbo о. magis, superne sanguineo-rubentia; anth. vibrate, fledtende. Stylus 
brevior staminibus, sanguineus: stig. punctum viride, obsoleta. trilobulatum г 
germ. breve, oblongum. 
The number of the recorded species of the stately tro- 
ical group to which our plant belongs, has been nearly 
trebled by the late Dr. Roxburgh, during his assiduous su- 
perintendence of the botanic garden at Calcutta: while 
the address with which he has selected and defined the 
discriminating marks of congeners of such signal simplicity 
and sameness of configuration, in the unedited portion of 
his Plante Coromandele, would of itself constitute no mean 
memorial of his skill. 
The plant which is the subject of this article is native of 
the Island of Mauritius; was first introduced into the gar- 
den at Calcutta; and from thence, by Sir Abraham Hume, 
into this country: but seems to have been known in the 
B 
