Tas.77 17-8. 
CRINUM RHODANTHUM. 
Native of Ngami Land. 
Nat. Ord. AmaryLuipe#.—Tribe AMARYLLEA. 
Genus Cainum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 726.) 
Crinum (Stenaster) rhodanthum; bulbo ovoideo 4 poll. diam., foliis 12-15 
bipedalibus ad 2 poll. latis distichis loratis carnosulis fragilibus glauces- 
centibus enerviis apice rotundatis marginibus angustissime scariosis erosis, 
pedunculo brevi lato valde compresso, spathis 1—-2-pollicaribus deltoiJeis 
acuminatis, umbella hemispherica fere 2-ped. diam, multiflora, pedicellis 
14-2 poll. longis, perianthii tubo 3-pollicari fere rect» angusto cylindraceo, 
limbi saturate rosei segmentis patenti-revolutis loratis 2} poll. longis, 
filamentis erectis perianthii segmentis equilougis, antheris 3 poll. longis 
fuscis, stylo gracili recto filamentis «2 quilongo, stigmate capitellato. 
C. rhodanthum, Baker in Dyer, Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. vii. p. 397. 
The term Ngami Land indicates the country around a 
lake of that name, situated in the heart of Africa, in 
about lat. S. 20°, and approximately half way between the 
Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Though long known by 
reports from the Bechuana tribes of S. Africa, it was 
not visited by Europeans till 1849, when the intrepid 
travellers, Oswell and ,Livingstone, reached it after a 
perilous crossing of the desert intervening between it and 
Bechuanaland. | 
Though situated within the tropics, the vegetation of 
Ngami Land is South African, as exemplified by a most 
beautifully preserved herbarium made there by Lieut. (now 
Capt.) and Mrs. Lugard, and presented to Kew, of which 
an account will be communicated to the Linnean Society 
by Mr. N. E. Brown. This herbarium is rich in novelties, 
and is rendered exceptionally valuable from being accom- 
panied by a series of coloured drawings, with analyses of 
many species, by Mrs. Lugard, which are of rare excellence 
in point of execution and scientific accuracy, and of which 
that lady has kindly allowed copies to be taken for the 
Kew collection of botanical drawings. 
The exact locality of the Crinum is Mt. Kwebe, situated 
a little to the eastward of the lake, which is described 
JuNE Ist, 1991. 
