Tab. 7597. 



CRINUM Woodrowi. 



Native of Central India. 



Nat. Ord. Amaryllidejs. — Tribe A-Maeylle^. 

 Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 726. 



Crinum (Platyaster) Woodrowi ; bulbo globoso magno collo hand producto, 

 tunicis exterioribns brunneis, foliis paucia lingulatis obtasis viridibus 

 glabris, pedunculo compreeso foliis aaquilongo, nmbellis 6-7-floris, pedi- 

 cellis productis, spatha? valvis 2 ovatis, perianthii tubo cylindrico viridulo 

 limbi segmentis albis lanceolatis patulis tubo aequilongis, filamentis 

 rubellis periantbii segmentis duplo brevioribus, stylo stamina superante. 



Several bulbs of this fine new Crinum were sent to the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, in January, 1897, by Mr. Gr. M. 

 Woodrow, formerly of Kew, now lecturer on botany in the 

 College of Science at Poona. They were supposed to 

 belong to C. brachynema, Herb. (Bot. Mag. t. 5937) a very 

 rare endemic Central Indian species, which differs from 

 all the other members of the genus by its very short 

 stamens, but when they flowered in July they proved to 

 be totally different. The present plant belongs to. the 

 section Platyaster, and is nearly allied to the Socotran 

 C. Balfourii, Baker (Bot. Mag. t. 6570), and the Bornean 

 C. Nurthianum, Baker, and of the Indian species to 

 C. amcenum, Roxb., and C.pratense, Herb. At Kew it has 

 flowered freely under ordinary stove treatment. 



Descr. — Bulb globose, four inches in diameter, without 

 any produced neck ; outer tunics brown, membranous. 

 Leaves few, contemporary with the flowers, lingulate, 

 obtuse, glabrous, bright green, a foot long, three or four 

 inches broad, not ciliated on the margin. Peduncle arising 

 from the bulb outside the tuft of the leaves, stout, com- 

 pressed, a foot long. Umbel six- or seven -flowered ; 

 pedicels about an inch long ; spathe-valves two, opposite, 

 ovate. Perianth-tube cylindrical, three inches or three 

 inches and a half long ; segments of the limb lanceolate, 



June 1st, 1898. 



