Ate G525, 
CRINUM PURPURASCENS. 
Native of West Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEX.—Tribe AMARYLLIDEX. 
Genus Crinum, Linn, ; (Kunth Enum. vol, v. p. 547.) 
CrRInuM purpurascens ; bulbo parvo ovoideo brevicollo copiose stolonifero, foliis 
multis loratis patulis angustis undulatis 14-2-pedalibus, scapo gracili foliis 
duplo breviori, umbellis sessilibus 6-10-floris, spathe valvis deltoideis, floribus 
erectis albis extus purpurascentibus, tubo gracili 5-6-pollicari, segmentis 
oblanceolatis acutis recurvatis tubo duplo brevioribus, filamentis arcuatis 
saturate rubellis limbo distincte brevioribus, stylo filamentos superante stigmate 
minuto capitato. 
C. purpurascens, Herb. Amaryll. p. 250; Roem. Amaryjll. p.72; Kunth Enum, 
vol. v. p. 554, 
This is a very distinct Crinum of the star-flowered set 
from West Tropical Africa, remarkable for its dwarf slender 
habit and very numerous spreading narrow undulated 
leaves. Its alliance is with the Himalayan C. amenum and 
pratense, and the New World C. americanum and erubescens. 
It was introduced in the time of Dean Herbert, and is 
carefully described in his classical work on the Amarylli- 
dace, but has never been previously figured. Our drawing 
was made from a plant that flowered at Kew in June, 1879, 
the bulb of which was sent by the Rev. H. Goldie, and we 
have since had it from Messrs. Veitch, from bulbs brought 
home by Mr. Kalbreyer. It grows at a low level by the 
side of streams about Fernando Po and in Old Calabar, 
and, of course, requires stove-heat for its successful 
cultivation. — 
Descr. Bulb ovoid, about two inches in diameter, with a 
short neck, and copious stolons. Leaves twenty or thirty, 
_ ecotemporary with the flowers, spreading, lorate, one and a 
half or two feet long at the flowering-time, an inch broad, 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1880. 
