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SMILACINA PURPUREA. Tab. 144. 
Rapice moniliformi-articulatà ; caule adscendente, subflexuoso, superné pedunculisque villosis ; foliis alternis, se- 
cundis, sessilibus, amplexicaulibus, ovatis, acuminatis, plicatis, ciliatis ; racemo terminali, subramuloso. 
Habitat in montibus summis Napaliæ et versus Gossain Than, florens sub pluviis ; varietas racemo simplici, floribus 
albis, foliisque magnis crescit in Kamaon, ubi detexit R. Blinkworth. 
Raprx carnosa, repens, subramosa, catenulato-articulata, radicem Convallaria oppositifolice ex asse referens; articuli depresso-globosi, 
fusci, glabri, fibras numerosas, crassas, cylindricas emittentes, vertice exsculpti foveà magnà, insertionis caulis preteriti anni superstite. 
Cavus unicus, rarò duo tresve, erectus, carnosus, cylindricus, pedalis 2-pedalisvè, basi levitèr adscendente, pennam cygneam ad digitum 
minimum crassá, pallida, parce et breviter vaginatus; sursüm attenuatus, fuscescens, lineolis purpureis, parallelis guttulatus, ad insertionem 
foliorum subarticulatus obsoletèque flexuosus, supernè leviter pubescens. VAGINÆ 3, membranaceæ, 1—2-pollicares, cylindricze, basin 
caulis arctè amplectentes, oris obliqui apice acuto, patulo; exterior brevissima. For alterna, subsecunda, interstitiis duplo longiora, 
inferiora paullò remotiora, ovata, brevé acuminata, basi rotundatà amplicaulia, sessilia, infimum subvaginans, levitèr plicata, margine 
parüm undulato pilis copiosis, brevissimis ciliata, suprà lucida, subtùs pallida, subcarinatò 9-nervia, 2—4-pollicaria. FLores parvi, 
odorati, nutantes, sparsi, densè approximati, subsecundi, atropurpurei, nunc albi, dispositi in racemwm terminalem, rectum, cylindrico- 
attenuatum, 3—4-pollicarem, simplicem, vel basi ramulis paucis, brevibus munitum, supra folium terminale parüm elevatum, suffultum 
pedunculo brevi, cum pedicellis rachique carnosis, teretibus, cano-villosis. PepiceLLI unguiculares, suffulti bracteolá lineari, acutå, emar- 
cescente, uná alteråve per pedunculum sepius vagà. PrertanTHIUM subcampanulatum, carnosum, profundè 6-partitum ; lobi oblongi, 
obtusi, 1-costati, inths apice viridi-maculati, membranaceo-marginulati, serie duplici, alternante dispositi, lineas 3 longi, exteriores parüm 
angustiores. Sramina 6, erecta, perianthio dimidid breviora, basi ejus inserta, lobis opposita, lzevia ; filamenta subulata; anthere ovate, 
parva, erectæ, biloculares, viridescentes. Ovarrum ovatum, leve, subtriangulare et 3-sulcatum, 3-loculare; ovulum 1 vel 2 in singulo 
loculo, axi adfixum ; stylus brevissimus, 3-angularis ; stigma carnosum, triquetrum, scabriusculum. 
I have remarked above that a variety of this plant with large leaves, simple racemes, and with white, somewhat larger 
flowers, grows in Kamaon, whence it was sent to me by Robert Blinkworth. “This may perhaps prove a separate 
species, but I am as yet unable to distinguish the plants specifically. 
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Plate CXLIV. Fig. 1. 2. Flower. 3. The same, opened. 4. Ovarium, opened. 
CRINUM HERBERTIANUM. Tab. 145. 
Forns undique sparsis, recurvato-nutantibus, valdé undulatis, membranaceo-marginulatis, subtus scapoque erecto, 
compresso subfurfuraceis ; floribus densé umbellatis, subsessilibus, deflexo-cernuis ; limbi aequalis laciniis revolutis, 
filamentis declinatis, stylo discolore. 
Crescit in Pegu prope Rangoon, in fossis. Floret tempore pluvioso. 
BuLgus magnus, globosus, vix in collum superne contractus, diametro 5—7-pollicari. Fora undique sparsa, numerosa, laxè patentia, 
recurvato-nutantia, 13—2-pedalia, basi vix contractå laxè imbricantia caulemque semipedalem simulantia, mediò digitos 4 lata, ind? 
attenuato-acuminata, valdè undulata, membranaceo-marginulata minutimque crenulata ; suprà lato-canaliculata saturatè viridia, subtòs 
valdè glauca, convexa, multilineata. Scapus solitarius, nunc 2 ex lateribus bulbi oppositis simul provenientes, erectus, pollices 20 longus, 
digitum medium crassus, complanatus, furfuraceus, maxima ex parte purpureus, hinc viridescens.` UMBELLA densa, magna, depresso- 
rotundata, diametrum usque ad pedalem emetiens.  SrarHa magna, coriacea, 2-valvis; lobi oblongi, obtusi, e viridi purpurascentes. 
Frores valdè speciosi, magni, fragrantissimi, 12 ad 16 in umbella collecti, subsessiles, curvaturá magná deflexo-cernui, campanulato- 
infundibuliformes, erubescentes, limbo fauceque extòs latd purpureo-fasciatis; æstivatione oblongo-cylindrici, erecti, cuspidibus 5 elon- 
gatis, divergentibus cornuti. SQUAMA lineares, canaliculatæ, erectæ, albæ, floribus intermixtæ, eorumque tubos subaequantes. CoroLLæ 
tubus ferè 4-pollicaris, basi viridis, cylindraceus, obsoletè 3-angularis, indè curvatus sensimque ampliatus, subcampanulatus, purpureo- 
fasciatus ; limbus aequalitèr patens, laxiusculè nutans, tubo tertiå parte brevior; laciniæ oblongo-lanceolatæ, acutiuscula, recurvatæ, 
apice revolutæ. Sramina declinata, vix limbi dimidium superantia ; filamenta alba, filiformia, compressiuscula ; antheræ lineares, longze, 
arcuate, coloris aurei. Ovarium compressum, pedunculo admodüm brevi, lato suffultum ; stylus purpureus, longitudine staminum, 
cumque iis declinatus, apice adscendens ; stigma obtusiusculum. 
_ My most esteemed friend the Rev. Dr. Carey of Serampur suspects with me that this beautiful species is distinct 
from Crinum zeylanicum, which I found growing together with it about Rangoon. It closely resembles the figure of 
Amaryllis zeylanica in the Botanical Magazine, vol. 30. n. 1171., but the colour of its flowers is by no means si dark 
as in that plant. I have had the true C. zey/anicum and our plant in flower at the same time at the Calcutta Garden ; 
but I regret that I have not been able to fix on any very satisfactory character by which to distinguish them. I har 
dedicated the plant here represented to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert of Spofforth, whose indefatigable zeal in the 
cultivation of foreign plants, and whose valuable labours in the arduous family of Liliacee are so well known and so 
highly prized. 
