270 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
long, the upper with a short erect free point. Panicle sometimes 
above a foot long, with 1-4 short ascending branches with a 
cluster of flowers at the summit only. Flowers often 5-6 to à 
node. Bracts brown, membranous, ovate, l in. long. Flowers 
with a small oblong ovary, a bright blue limb 3 in. long with 
oblong segments 4 in. broad and stamens half as long as the 
segments. Capsule 4 in. long, rigid in texture, nearly black, with 
numerous small superposed seeds in each cell —Ankaratra Moun- 
tains, Kitching! Central Madagascar, Baron 1084! 1731! 1833! 
Very near A. madagascariensis, Baker, from which it differs in its 
much more robust habit, long leaves, compound inflorescence, and 
small membranous bracts. 
Crinum (§ STENASTER) FIRMIFOLIUM, n. sp. 
C. foliis anguste loratis firmulis tripedalibus margine et facie glabris, 
scapo modice robusto, umbellis paucifioris, ovario sessili, tubo 5—6-polli- 
cari, limbi segmentis linearibus patulis quam tubus duplo brevioribus, sta- 
minibus quam limbus paulo brevioribus. 
Leaves narrow lorate, as thick in texture as in any species 
of the genus, 3 ft. long, 1} in. broad at the middle, narrowed gra- 
dually from the middle to the apex, the veins very close, nume- 
rous and immersed. Peduncle moderately stout, under a foot 
long. Flowers 5-6 in an umbel, sessile, bracteated by two lanceo- 
late spathe-valves 13 in. long.  Perianth-tube 5-6 in. long; seg- 
ments of the limb linear with recurved edges, 2-24 in. long, 4 in. 
broad, spreading widely when fully expanded. Filaments erecto- 
patent, very slender, 2 in. long; anthers 4 in. long.—East coast, 
in a freshwater stream, near its mouth, Baron 1638! A well- 
marked new species of the C. asiaticwm group. 
Crinum (§ STENASTER) LIGULATUM, n. sp. 
C. foliis anguste loratis 3-4-pedalibus margine et facie glabris crebre 
nervatis, scapo robusto, umbellis 20-30-floris, ovario cylindrico sessili, 
perianthii tubo 2-3-pollicari, segmentis lanceolatis quam tubus brevioribus, 
staminibus quam limbus distincte brevioribus. 
Leaves. strap-shaped, 3-4 ft. long, 2 in. broad, moderately firm 
in texture, closely distinctly ribbed, glabrous both on the surfaces 
and margin. Peduncle stout, about a footlong. Flowers 20-30 
in a dense umbel, subtended by two green lanceolate deltoid 
spathe-valves about 3in.long. Flowers sessile or very nearly 80; 
ovary cylindrical, j-1 in. long; perianth-tube slender, 22-3 in. 
long; segments ascending, linear, 14-23 in. long, j in. broad, 
