of both sorts sent to England, I observed a greater difference in their 
appearance than can be traced in the parts above ground, though 
even there their disagreements are sufficiently conspicuous to justify 
the separation. The following description will be found more com- 
parative than usual with me, on account of their resemblance ; and 
no doubt both belong to Crinum, at least to the same genus with our 
East India Crinums. I do not, therefore, think L'Héritier, and after 
him Willdenow, have rendered Botany any service by changing the 
place of C. zeylanicum and latifolium. 
* Root a spherical, tunicated bulb, often 2 feet in circumference, 
and rather more flattened at the base than at the opposite end ; —in 
lineatum it is ovate, never so large, and abounds more in cobweb- 
like fibres. Leaves numerous, radical, disposed equally on all sides, 
lanceolate, waved, smooth, tapering from within a few inches of the 
base to rather an obtuse point; margins scabrous, with minute 
cartilaginous denticules, length from 1 to 3 feet, and from 3 to 5 inches 
broad ;—in /ineatum narrower, ribs much more prominent, length as 
far as 3 feet, margins greatly more waved, and perfectly smooth; 
this mark alone is sufficient to distinguish the two plants. capi from 
the axils of the decayed leaves, somewhat compressed, as thick as a 
man's thumb, and from 12 to 24 inches long ;—in lineatum longer, 
and coloured. Umbels with from 10 to 20 flowers;—in lineatum 
rarely so many. Spathes (in both) two, of an ovate-conic form, with 
many soft filaments mixed amongst the flowers. . Flowers sessile, 
large; tube green; border pale rose, almost white, faintly fragrant, 
particularly when they first expand, soon after sunset ;—in lineatum 
they are scarce so large, and the colours much more bright, almost 
like vittata. Corolla, tube declinate, eylindric, obscurely 3-sided, 
about 4 inches long. Border campanulate, horizontal; segments 
lanceolate, with rather soft subulate points, length between 3 and 
4 inches. Fil. 6, shorter than the segments of the border of 
the corolla, inserted on the mouth of the tube, declinate, with apices 
sharp, and always erect. Anthers falcate, incumbent, and tremulous, 
pale yellowish gray ;—in lineatum they are brown. Germ inferior, 
oblong, 3-celled, with several seeds in each, attached in two vertical 
rows to the two lobes of the thick, fleshy receptacles, which are 
substantially united to the wall of the germ, and seemingly so to 
each other in the centre ;—C. lineatum and our other Indian Crinums 
have exactly the same germ, and all produce large bulbous seeds. 
Style filiform, declinate, and projecting beyond the stamina. Stigma 
small, 3-toothed. Pericarpium a soft, somewhat fleshy, perishable 
envelope, which covers one, two, or three, rarely more, large, fleshy, 
bulbiform seeds; no trace of either partitions or sutures to be 
found.” 
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