Crinum. | CXXXVII. AMARYLLIDEZ (BAKER). 401 
Originally described from a dried specimen from Sierra Leone, sent to Kew by 
Mr, F. Sander of St. Albans. 
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28. C. scabrum, Herb. in Bot. May. t. 2180. Bulb globose, 
5-6 in. diam.; neck short. Leaves a dozen or more to a bulb, ensiform, 
moderately firm, bright green, 2-3 ft. long, 14-2 in. broad at the 
middle, tapering gradually to the point, scabrous on the margin. 
Peduncle moderately stout, 1-2 ft. long. Flowers 4-8 in an umbel; 
pedicels very short ` spathe-valves ovate, 2-3 in. long. Perianth-tube 
curved, greenish, 4—5 in. long; segments oblong, acute, ascending, 
24-3 in. long, 1 in. broad, white with a distinct red keel. Filaments 
rather shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers linear, }—} in. 
long. Style reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments.—Bury, 
Hexand. t. 32; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 90; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 170 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 80. C. ruep- 
pelianum, Fresen. in Verhand. Befoerd, Gartenb. iii. 265. C. Doric, 
Dammann, Cat. No. 73 (1894), 7? Amaryllis vittata, A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 311. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Bogos; Keren, Beccari, 120! cultivated specimen, 
Penzig! Abyssinia: Wojerat, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 52! Kordofan: El Obeid, 
Pfund, 263! Kisgil, Pfund, 1378! British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schwein- 
Surth, ser. iii. 209! Bongo; Gir, Schweinfurth, 1523! Madi, Speke & Grant, 742! 
29. C.fimbriatulum, Baker in Journ. Bot.1878, 196. Leaves linear, 
reaching a length of 4-5 ft., 2 in. broad low down, tapering gradually 
to the point, glaucous green, ciliate on the edge with minute scales. 
Peduncle moderately stout, 2 ft. long. Flowers 3-7 in an umbel, 
subsessile ; spathe-valves lanceolate. Perianth-tube curved, 4-5 in. 
long ; segments oblong, acute, ascending, 3 in. long, 1 in. broad, white 
with a distinct bright red keel. Stamens 1 in. shorter than the 
perianth-segments ; anthers linear, 4—4 in. long. Style reaching to the 
tip of the perianth-segments.—Handb. Amaryllid. 90. 
Lower Guinea. Loanda: in marshy meadows at a low level, Welwitsch 
4048! 4019! 
30. C. zeylanicum, Linn. Syst. ed. xii. 236. Bulb globose, 5-6 in. 
diam.; neck short. Leaves 6-10 to a bulb, thin, ensiform, bright 
green, 2-3 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad, slightly scabrous on the margin. 
Peduncle long, not very stout, often tinged with red. Flowers 10—20 
in an umbel; pedicels very short; spathe-valves ovate, 3-4 in. long. 
Perianth-tube curved, 3—4 in. long; segments oblong, acute, ascending, 
as long as the tube, 1 in. broad, white, with a broad bright red keel. 
Stamens 1 in. shorter than the segments ; anthers linear, } in. long. 
Style overtopping the anthers.—Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 87. C. 
ornatum, vars. zeylanicum and herbertianum, Herb. Amaryllid. 262-263. 
Amaryllis zeylanica, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. ii. 421. A. ornata, Bot. Mag. 
t.1171. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambriz, Monteiro! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Zambesi Delta; banks of the 
River Kongoni, Kirk, 140! 316. 
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