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CRINUM GiGanTEuM. 
Large-flowered Crinum, or Cape-Coast Lily. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE®.—HExANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium superum corollaceum; tubo elongato, gracili; fauce 
haud ampliata ; limbo 6-partito ; Jaciniis subzequalibus, multinerviis, erectis, pa- 
tentibus vel reflexis. Stamina 6, summo tubo inserta, elongata. Filamenta fili- 
formia, patentia vel declinata. dnthere lineares, versatiles. Ovarium inferum 
triloculare ; ovuda plurima, in loculorum angulo centrali affixa, biseriata, hori- 
zontalia, anatropa. Columna stylina filiformis, erecta vel inclinata. Stigma ob- 
tusum, obsolete trilobum vel trifidum. Capsula membranacea, depresso-spheerica, 
tri- vel abortu 1—2-locularis, irregulariter rampens. Semina pauca vel solitaria, 
angulato-subglobosa, sepe in bulbillos carnosos mutata—Herbe Jduldifere, 
scapigere ; bulbo tunicato, columnari vel spherico. Folia multifaria. Scapus 
solidus, umbellato-multiflorus. Spatha diphylla. Flores pedicellati vel sessiles, — 
bracteis linecribus ramentaceis interstincti. Endl. 
Crinum giganteum ; sessiliflorum, foliis plurimis oblongo-lingulatis obsolete 
striatis undulatis margine scabris, floris limbo nutante obsolete bilabiato 
tubo breviore. 
Crinum giganteum. Andr. Bot. Repos. t.169. Redouté, Liliae. t. 181. Her- 
bert, in Bot. Mag. sub fol. 2121. Schultz, Syst. v. 7. p. 854. Kunth, Enum. 
v. 5. p. 569. 
Crinum petiolatum. Herb. App. p. 22. Var. 1. spectabile, Herbert, Amaryl. 
p. 260. 
AMARYLLIS gigantea. dit. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 226. Gawl. in Journ. of Se. 
v. 3. p. 368. ¢. 44. f. 8, 14, 15. 
AMARYLLIS ornata, 8. Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 923 (leaves very unlike those of 
our plant). ; 
AMARYLLIS candida. Traut. Tabul. ¢. 488. 
AMARYLLIS latifolia. Lam. Encycl. v. 1. p. 41. 
This fine plant has been long known in England, but much 
misunderstood ; and no figure (though there are not a few) has 
yet done justice to the Jarge and delicate texture of the flowers ; 
among the worst of the figures is that given by Mr. Gawler, 
in this work, under the name of Amaryllis ornata, B. Tt is a 
native of Sierra Leone, and no doubt other parts of the coast of 
tropical Western Africa. Bulbs were sent to us recently by 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1860. 
