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CRINUM* latifólium. 
Broad-leaved Crinum. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEE. 
CRINUM.— Suprà, vol. 1. fol. 52. 
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C. latifolium; bulbo spheerico, foliis lanceolatis undulatis margine scabris, 
spathá 10-12-florá, floribus sessilibus : tubo declinato cylindrico obsoleté 
trigono, limbo campanulato horizontali : laciniis lanceolatis subundulatis. 
C. latifolium. Linn. sp. pl. 1.419. “Ker in journ. of sc. 1817, addend. 
Amaryllis latifolia. Z’Hérit. sert. angl. 14. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 57. Ker in 
journ. of sc. no. 45 (1817). . Spreng. syst. 2. 52. 
Sjovanna-pola-tali. . Rheede mulab. 11. 77. t. 39. 
For our figure of this fine and very rare species of Crinum we 
are indebted to the Right Honourable the Earl of Caernarvon, in 
whose noble collection at Highclere the drawing was made, as long 
since as December 1825. 
Mr. Gowen remarks to us, that it is most closely allied to 
Crinum speciosum, moluccanum, insigne, &c. Itis a sh flowerer, 
and tender, as are most of its oriental congeners, which are very 
impatient of drip in the heart of the leaves, and require alternate 
periods of rest and quick active vegetation. 
This bulb was sent to Lord Caernarvon many pe since by 
Dr. Wallich, who has been so kind as to favour us wit the following 
pe ea extract relating to it from Dr. Roxburgh’s MS. Flora 
Indica :— 
* A native of Bengal, where it begins to blossom with the first 
showers in April, and continues to do so during the early part of the 
rainy season. I long considered this most stately plant a variet 
of Amaryllis lineata, Lamarck Encyclop. 1. 123, (w ich I am still 
inclined to consider a Crinum); but on taking up some of the bulbs 
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* The xgi»o of the Greeks is supposed to have been Lilium candidum. 
