CRINUM variabile, var. roseum. 
Rose-coloured changeable Crinum. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEZ. 
CRINUM. Herbert. Amaryll. p. 242. 
C. variabile ; foliis leeté viridibus erecto-arcuatis crassis, floribus subsessilibus 
ortu albis rubro pallidé extüs notatis dein saturaté rubris campanulato- 
infundibularibus apice revolutis. 
C. variabile, Herbert, l. c. 268. 
Amaryllis variabilis, Jacq. A. Schenb. 4. 426. 
Amaryllis revoluta (9. Supra, vol. 8. fol. 615. 
This beautiful bulb flowered in April last with J. H. 
Slater, Esq. of Newick Park, near Uckfield. Its leaves are 
very long, and its gay rosy flowers most agreeably scented. 
Upon shewing the drawing to the Dean of Manchester, 
the learned investigator of this difficult genus, he suggested 
the probability of its being either a variety of Crinum varia- 
bile, or a mule from C. capense, of which the Gardens now 
contain so many. A reference to the published figures of 
the former induces us to regard it as one of its varieties, 
with which it agrees in its bright green very long leaves, and 
comparatively short scape. 
We borrow from Mr. Herbert's work the following memo- 
randum concerning C. variabile. “ This is the hardiest 
known species; out of doors it preserves its leaves in winter 
longer than Capense, and it shoots earlier in the spring. 
Both this plant and revolutum have a slender germen, but 
the idea conceived from Jacquin's plate by some persons, of 
‚its cells being monospermous was erroneous. [t leaves are 
deep green. The flowers turn to a rich purplish red, so that 
