Tas. 5937, 
CRINUM sracuynema. 
Native of Bombay. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe. AMARYLLEA. 
Genus Crinum, Linn.; (Herbert Amaryllid., p. 242). 
Crinum brachynema ; bulbo late ovoideo fere globoso, foliis erecto-recurvis 
latissime loriformibus obtusis concavis ecarinatis glaberrimis viridibus, 
umbella multiflora, pedunculis brevibus, bracteis filiformibus, ovario 
tenui, floribus precocibus odoris, perianthio albo, tubo gracili polli- 
cari, limbo late infundibulari, segmentis patulis elliptico-oblongis 
apiculatis, filamentis antheris linearibus flavis brevioribus, stylo fili- 
formi tubo multo breviore. 
Crinum brachynema, Herbert in Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc., p. 36; Kunth. Enum., 
vol. v. p. 581. 
A native of Bombay, whence bulbs were sent to the Royal 
Gardens in 1870, by Mr. Woodrow, late of Kew, now of the 
Botanic Gardens, Poona, which flowered in May of the 
present year. It is remarkable that so tine and sweet-scented 
a plant from so well explored a country, should not have 
found a place either in Roxburgh’s Flora Indica, or in Gibson 
and Dalzell’s Bombay Flora; and it shows how much still 
remains to be done in the long hunted field of British 
India. 
Except in the shorter pedicels of the flowers, and in 
the characters of the style, this plant agrees well with 
Herbert’s description of @. drachynema, which was imported 
by the Messrs. Loddiges from Bombay, and flowered at 
Spofforth in 1842; but as the author of that species says 
nothing of the form or size of the leaf (no doubt from the fact 
that the leaves. are produced long after the flowers) this 
identification must remain doubtful. The leaves of the 
DECEMBER Ist, 1871. 
