C R I N V M CRUENT ( T M. 



Nat, Ohih:ii AM \RYLLIPE K— Linbl 



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Bot Roy. 171. 



Flower-stem two r<-*>t and a hair to tlie spathe, rising from the side of the mass 

 of foliage, bul within one or two of Iho outside leaves; smooth, not glaucous, 

 compressed and solid; of a clear bright green, paler near Ibe bulb. Spatho 

 thick and fleshy, dividing into two leaf-like segment*, darkish green outside, 

 paler within. Flowers sessile, each with a long narrow bract e, resembling 

 the spathe in colour ami substance. Tube of the flower from seven to right 

 in:!::s light green: petals purple, strap-shaped, of equal breadths, and Strongly 

 clawed at the points ; pistil and filaments purple, pistil generally, bill not 

 invariably, longer than the filaments -anthers dark brown, covered with blight 

 deep yellow pollen — Leaves live feet long, ribbed, slightly channelled, and 

 tapering very much towards the joints. This Crinum was fitM flowered 

 by Air. Bjcbbert, who imported it from tiie Ea>l Indies, and il is still a 

 very scarce plant the present specimen flowered in the Liverpool Hotanic 

 Gardcn ; the bulb is very much elongated at the neck, and so scaly as almost 

 to lose tin* character of a true hulls dark brown, raising itself almost entirely 

 above the soil, uud throwing out thick, tuberous, fleshy roots on every bide. 



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