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CRINUM amabile: 8. augustum. 
Mauritius Crinum. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLA. 
Nat. ord. Nancıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum: 
AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. Radix bul- 
bosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, rar solitarii. m 
CRINUM.  Umbella spothá bivalvi longior, bracteis distinctá; Cor. 
tubuloso-sexfida : tubus strictus, germine pluriés longior: few nulla: Ambas 
sexpartitus, stellatus, subaqualis, regularis. Filamenta summo tubo in- 
serta, uno versü inclinata vel sexfaridm divergentia: antheræ lineares, 
incumbentér vibrate. Stylus inclinatus: stigma simplex vel obsolet? trina. 
Germ. 3-loculare, polyspermum, ovulis biseriatis. En . membranaceo-te- 
nuis vel coriaceo-crassa, sphærica, sæpiùs oblata, nunc abortú uni-bilocularis : 
semina numerosa, ‘horizontalia, margini interne septi utrinque annexa, cu- 
mulata, anguloso-compressa, submarginata, sæpissimè verd tuberoso-laxata, 
pauca vel et solitaria. 
Genus in AMARYLLIDEM transeuns ad istius species elongato-tubulosas 
cum foliis multifayiis, à quibus separatur sold regularitate limbi. Ham an- 
TO accedit ad istius multilorum. Balbus me more Porri elongatus cy- 
lindricus, formé fer? caudicis prominens, Fol. multifaria, lat? vel angust? 
lorata, canaliculata vel planiora. Flores candicanies, vel varié purpuras- 
centes, ampli. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 3. 103. 
Div. II. Umbella pedunculata, 
C. amabile, bulbo elongato, conico, extante, foliis numerosis lato-subulatis 
glauciusculis, margine levi, umbellá numerosá, tubo subbreviore limbo. 
Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 3. 111. 
Crinum amabile. Dorn hort. cant. ed. 6.83. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 1605. 
tabb. A. et B. 
Crinum superbum. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. = . 
(8) augustum; planta dimidio ferè minor; stylo staminibus plurimüm bre- 
viore; (antheris luteis.) Herbert append. 47. Gowen in litt. 
Crinum augustum. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. Nobis in journ. of science 
and the arts. 3. 113; (fide . Roxburgh.) 
In the Journal above quoted we had adopted C. au- 
tum as distinct from amabile, on the authority of Dr. 
Roxburgh (the latter plant only being at that time known 
to us by inspection), though in truth we could never 
trace any satisfactory mark of their distinction in the de- 
scriptions by the Doctor. Since then plants of both 
types have been obtained by Lord Caernarvon from the 
Botanic Garden of Calcutta, through the means of Dr. 
Wallich, for the express purpose of ascertaining by inspec- 
