Tas. 6113. 
CRIN UM Mooret. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—Tribe AMARYLLEZ. 
Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Herbert Amaryllid., p. 242). 
Crinum Moore ; bulbo pedali anguste ovoideo collo elongato, foliis amplis 
4-poll. latisensiformibus obtuse acuminatis striato-nervosis, scapo robusto, 
spathis late oblongo-lanceolatis herbaceis recurvis, pedicellis brevibus, 
perianthii tubo 3-pollicari, limbi 6-poll. diam. rosei segmentis late 
ellipticis apicibus incrassatis herbaceis, antheris flavis. 
A hardy Crinum is a rarity in English gardens, and except 
the beautiful C. capense, I know no other but this now in 
open air cultivation ; and beautiful as C. capense is, it is far 
exceeded in size, foliage, and colour by the subject of the 
present plate. : 
Crinum Moorei was introduced into the Glasnevin Gardens 
in 1863, by a friend of Dr. Moore’s, Mr. Webb, who had 
served on the commissariat staff of our army in South Africa, 
and had brought the seeds from the interior—as Dr. Moore 
thinks—of Natal. During the last five years the specimen 
from which the drawing was made has been planted in a 
border fronting the conservatory range at Glasnevin, without 
getting the slightest protection, flowering sometimes in 
autumn and at other times in spring. The leaves are cut up 
in the winter, but the bulbs are not seriously hurt, and soon 
recover themselves, when they push out a fresh set of their 
broad, peculiarly-ribbed leaves, eighteen to twenty inches long. 
The bulb is remarkably long, sometimes reaching eighteen 
inches. 
A closely allied species to this is the C. Colensot of Natal, 
which will shortly be figured, which has also broad leaves and 
a long bulb, but the perianth-tube is much longer, and the 
flower smaller, with a narrower pale limb: it has been flowered 
by Mr. Bull and others, and may, we hope, also prove hardy. 
AUGUST Ist, 1874. 
