Tas, 7417. 
CRINUM Scutmeert. 
Native of Abyssinia. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLER: 
Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 726.) 
Crinum (Codonocrinum) Schimperi; bulbo globoso magno collo elongato, foliis 
8-10 linearibus glabris recurvatis facie viridibus dorso glaucescentibus, 
pedunculo valido foliis breviore, umbellis paucifloris, spathe valvis 
2 ovatis, pedicellis subnullis, perianthii tubo cylindrico 4-pollieari brun- 
neo-viridulo primum suberecto demum cernuo, limbo albo tubo wquilongo, 
lobis oblanceolato-oblongis acutis apice patulis, staminibus declinatis 
limbo brevioribus, stylo declinato staminibus longiore. 
O. Schimperi, Vathe inedit. ; Schum. in Gartenflora, vol. xxxviii. (1899), p. 561, 
tab. 1309. 
This fine Orinwm belongs to the same group as 
C. latifolium, Linn, zeylanicum, Linn, and longifolium, 
Thunb. (capense, Herb.). In its foliage and general 
habit it closely resembles C. abyssinicum, Hochst. ; but 
the flower is much larger. From C. scabrum, Herb., 
and Sanderianum, Baker, it differs by its pure white 
flowers. The bulbs were sent by Schimper from the 
mountains of Abyssinia, about twenty years ago, to the 
Botanical Garden at Berlin, but it was not recognized 
and described as a new species till 1889, and in the mean- 
time some of the bulbs had been distributed under the 
name of OC. abyssinicum, Hochst. The Royal Gardens, 
Kew, has received it both from the Berlin Botanical Garden 
and Herr Leichtlin. It flowered in an unheated frame 
last July, and seems likely to become one of the favourite 
half-hardy species of this large and difficult genus. 
Descr.—Bulb globose, the size of a man’s fist, with an 
elongated neck. Leaves eight or ten to a rosette, deve- 
loped at the same time as the flowers, linear, recurving, 
glabrous on the surfaces and edges, three feet long, two 
inches broad low down, tapering gradually to the point, 
green above, glaucous beneath., Peduncle arising from 
the base of the rosette of leaves, very stout, terete, two 
June Ist, 1895. 
