Tas. 6512. 
CRINUM Kirk. 
Native of Hast Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEs.—Tribe AMARYLLIDER. 
Genus Crinum, Linn. 3 (Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 547.) 
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Crinum Kirkii; bulbo magno globoso collo elongato, foliis lorato-lanceolatis 
acuminatis 3-4-pedalibus viridibus recurvatis margine distincte ciliatis, scapo 
crasso compresso sesquipedali, umbellis sessilibus 12—15-floris, spathe valvis 
magnis rubellis, perianthii 9-10-pollicaris tubo cylindrico viridulo curvato, 
limbi cernui segmentis oblongo-lancevlatis acuminatis tubo paulo longioribus 
albis dorso carina distincta coccinea decoratis, staminibus limbo distincte 
brevioribus, stylo staminibus longiori stigmate capitato. 
This is a very fine new Crinum of the ornatwm group, of 
which the bulb was sent home about two years ago by 
Dr. Kirk from Zanzibar. It flowered for the first time at 
Kew in the autumn of 1879. Its nearest ally is C. Forbes- 
tanum, from Delagoa Bay, which was lost for a long time, 
but which we have again lately received and flowered. 
The present plant has flowers as large and as brightly 
coloured as in the finest forms of ornatum, but may be 
recognized at a glance by its short very stout peduncle 
and very large acuminate leaves, with a distinctly ciliated 
edge. 
Dass. Bulb globose, six or seven inches in diameter, 
with membranous pale-brown outer tunics and a neck half 
a foot long and about three inches in diameter. Leaves 
about a dozen to a rosette, developed at the same time as 
the flowers, lorate, acuminate, three or four feet long, four 
or four and a half inches broad in the lower half, narrowed 
gradually from the middle to the point, bright green, re- 
flexing in an early stage, undulated towards the margin 
and conspicuously ciliated with minute white bristles. 
Peduneles two or three to a bulb, compressed, about a foot 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1880. 
