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Nil niiin;u— AMAUYLI.MIE.i:.— I,i\i>i.i:v 



/tot. May. -21-21. 



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Asotuer of Mr. IIi:kiikht\s very elegant natural groupc of "Tin: Ohnata;," 

 belonging to Ilio half-expanding Crinums j bulb round, with a lengthened neck, 

 Hcabrous, li**hl brown^lcnvcs sheathing numerous, spreading in every direction ; 

 channelled, slightly undulated, very smooth nl tin; edges, nnd scarcely at nil 



glaucoug, cither Above or hciicalh : about twenty inches Inn** Scape springing 



from the side, purplish nl the base, and flattened ; six inches to Hie spnlhc, which 

 i> three inches long, bright green, mid dii idinu inhi two parts. Filament* white, 

 much curved upwards ; authors pale dusky yellow ; pistil purple for nearly an 

 inch adjoining the stigma, the divisions of which aire white nlmvc, purplish 

 beneath, Flower very transient, closely resembling those of Crinum Ornatum, 

 which however constantly produces five, -six, or seven flowers in a scape, under 

 the same treatment nl It. II \uuisons Esq. ; whereas the general ludiil of Ilmus- 

 soneti appears i« he decidedly one^foirerotf, nlllniiiuh ii occasionally produces 

 a Iwo-flowercd scape, a second smaller hud rising alter the find flower has gono 

 off, hui this in merely from extreme luxuriance of growtlij and not a constant 

 character of tin* plant. 



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