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Mr. Hi:miKitT enumerates live distinct varieties of Crinum Brubescens, of which, 

 this stands the third, u Limb white, tube and *;ormcn green." Tho Mowor-slom, 

 stylo and filaments are Strongly shaded with red, and a faint hlush of Iho *nmo 

 tint, MilliiM** Iho petals, just before they liesin to droop, though they are quite 

 ivhilo when first llir flowers open. Tho leaves aro strong, thick, and spreading : 

 deeply channelled, and the edges very rou^h to iho touch. Philip Miller say* 

 in hi* " Icones Plttntarum" (notes to lab. cx-)» ihnt ho received many of these 

 roots from Panama and Cftrthagona, about the year l?oO, which ho cultivated 

 very successfully in the Chelsea Hotanic Garden, whore the plants generally 

 flowered three or four times m n year, but at no regular season. The figure in 

 tho /tot. Mag. 124*2, is .Mr. Hekuuut's first variety, Ruhrilimha* The hnlli 

 here represented, lia* flowered constantly, for twenty or thirty years; past at 

 Fairfield. 





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