Tar. 6482. 
CRINUM PODOPAYLLUM. 
Native of Old Calabar. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEEZ.—Sub-order AMARYLLIDER. 
Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Kunth. Enum. vol. v. p. 547.) 
Crinum podophyllum ; bulbo parvo ovoideo, collo nullo modo producto, foliis 5-6 
lanceolatis subpedalibus medio 13-2 poll. latis deorsum in petiolum brevem 
canaliculatum angustatis margine obscure ciliatis, scapo laterali ancipiti vix 
dali, spathz valvis lanceolatis, floribus paucis perfecte scssilibus 8-9 poll. 
Lincis, tubo cylindrivo erecto apice curvato, limbi horizontalis segmentis 
oblanceolato-oblongis acutis tubo duplo brevioribus albis extus viridi tinctis 
preter apicem diu conniventibus, staminibus declinatis limbo paulo brevioribus, 
antheris magnis pulline luteo, stigmate capitato. 
This new Crinum, in its spreading undulated leaves and 
dwarf stature most resembles C. Careyanum (Bot. Mag. 
tab. 2466), but in its very long tube and fewer flowers 
comes nearer its geographical ally C. gigantewm (Bot. Mag. 
tab. 5205). The bulbs were sent not long ago from 
Old Calabar by the Rev. Hugh Goldie, and it flowered 
at Kew for the first time in November, 1879. Probably 
under further cultivation the leaves will be larger and the 
flowers more numerous than in the specimen drawn. 
Descr. Bulb ovoid, an inch and a half in diameter, 
without any produced neck, the outer tunics pale brown. 
Leaves five or six in a rosette, cotemporary with the 
flowers, lanceolate, thin in texture for the genus and much 
-undulated, spreading widely, about a foot long, acute, an 
inch and a half or two inches broad at the middle, narrowed 
gradually into a short deeply-channelled petiole. Scape 
ancipitous, lateral, erect, under a foot long. Flowers two 
in the specimen drawn, perfectly sessile, almost inodorous, 
eight or nine inches long. Spathe-valves two, lanceolate, 
green, erect. Ovary oblong. Perianth tube cylindrical, 
erect, curved at the top, five or six inches long; limb hori- 
MARCH Ist, 1880. 
