Crinum.] CLIL AMARYLLIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 283 
declinate. Flowers fragrant, white; filaments red. Ovarian cells 3—4-ovuled.— 
Roxburgh’s figure of longifolium represents a plant with a bulb 44 in, diam. having 
a neck 2-2} in., leaves obtuse concave ciliolate, scape very stout, flowers sessile, 
perianth-tube 33-4 in., stout, green, lobes 3 in. by j in., linear, obtuse, greenish 
externally, filaments as long, red, anthers 2 in., yellow.—Herbert and Baker include 
under C, pratense, the C. lorifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 131, from Pegu, with weak 
spreading leaves 4—5 ft. long; C. elegans, Carey (Bot. Mag. t. 2592), with a nar- 
rower long.necked bulb and the perianth lobes an inch shorter than the tube (in 
the Bot. Mag. drawing the leaves are acute and the perianth lobes longer than the 
tube) ; C. venustum, Carey, from Silhet, with 30-fld. umbels; C. canalifolium, Cavey, 
with leaves an inch broad, more channelled, rather glaucous, and about 10 flowers 
pale reddish externally. 
Sect, TIT. Coponocrinum. Perianth funnel-shaped, tube upcurved, lobes 
oblong or lanceolate. Stamens very long, declinate. 
in Bot. Reg. t. 1297 ; Wight Te. t.2019, 2020; Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 
87; Andr, Bot. Rep. t. 478. C. zeylanicum, Linn. Syst. Veg. 263; Can 
le, 573; Rowb. l. c. 138; Bury Hervand. Pl. t.29; Baker l. c. 87; Wall. 
ttianum, Herb, Amaryll. 262, 263 ; Kunth Enum. e, 974. C. speciocissi- 
pm, Herb, in Bot. Mag. sub t. 9191. C. Herbertianum, Wall. Pl. As. 
jir-ti, 89, t. 145. O. insigne, Schultes Syst, vii. 859. C. Walliehianum, 
Roem. (v Linnei, Roem. C. Careyanum, Herb. in Bot. Mag. t. 2466. C. 
peluccanum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 140; Bot. Mag. t. 2292. C. wg 
si Cat. 8969 B in part, C, I, in part. Amaryllis zeylanica, Linn. Sp "m 
9. A. insignis, Ker-Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 579. A. latifolia, Z. Herit. 
dot ngt 14; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 57; Ker-Gawl in Quart. Journ. Sci. d 
Arts, iii. 114 
As btoughout INDIA, BURMA and CzYrox, wild or cultivated. — DISTRIB. Tropical 
; : 
Bulb 5-6 in, diam., globose, neck short. Leaves bright green, kee led and waved. 
whee and spathes green reddish or purple. Flowers very variable in size, rag t le 
TE more or less streaked or tinged with red towards the centre or re E 
ja mes nearly all over the backs of the lobes, Filaments 24-3 "Pam uite 
unable | Ovarian cells 5-6-ovuled. Fruit subglobose, 13-2 in, diam.— to be dis- 
ti e to find any characters whereby C. latifolium and zeylanicum are fied 
guished, and Mr, Baker gives none. The name C. ornatum seems to * ah or 
m ES of either or to include both, and so of the other forms cited above, i Beie) nts 
ofthe them have specific characters, they remain to be indicated. Herber d Sciences. 
in his à (and of the species generally) in the Quarterly Journal of Arts "his work on 
Ama; jj umeration of the species in Bot. Mag. under t. 2121, and jf C. latifolium, 
in the lids, are all singularly unclear. Of all the figured forms that o "ch maller 
size * Botanica gister, t. 1297, differs most from the others in iis ee erianth- 
tube, an, white undulate perianth lobes faintly suffused with pink, bert under C. 
‘am style twice as long as the stamens, It is included by He ceylanicum as 
tative as longistylum.—Roxburgh describes both latifolium an “am ornata, 
ot j^! Bengal, and thus distinguishes them. C. latifolium, Linn. m ‘margins 
scabro g.t. 923) ; bulb Spherical, leaves 3-5 in. broad lanceolate o chite, anthers 
uS, scape 12-24 in. compressed green 10-20-fid., flowers almost white, 
