Tab. 6381. 

 CRINUM Macowaxi. 

 Native of Cape Colony. 



Nat Ord. AmahtllidacejB. — Tribe CbinsjA. 



Genus Crinum, Linn. (Kunth, Enum. vol v. p. 647.) 



Crinum Maoowani: bulbo magno collo elongato, foliis 12-15 patulis flaccidia late 

 loratis acutis viridibus 3-4-pedalibus margine scabris, scapo valido 8-4-pe- 

 dali, spathffi valvis maximis, umbellis 12-15-floris, pedieellia 3-3-polL longis, 

 perianthii tubo viridulo ciirvato S-4-pollicari, limbi pallide fubri horizontals 

 segmentis oblongis acutis tubo roquilqiigis doreo baud vittatis, genitalibus 

 declinatis limbo vix brevioribus. 



C. Macowani, Baker in Oard. Citron. 1878, p. 298. 



This fine new Crinum from the Cape closely resembles 

 some of the forms of the old Asiatic C. latifolium of Linnaeus 

 with delicate blush- coloured flowers, especially that figured 

 in the Botanical Register, Tab. 1297, which was regarded 

 by Roxburgh as the type of the Linnean species. C. lati- 

 folium and zeylanicum were regarded by Herbert as varieties 

 of one species, which he called C. ornatum, which is widely 

 distributed through the tropical and subtropical zones of the 

 Old World. From all the forms of thts, our present plant 

 may be known by its long pedicels and very large spatho- 

 valves. Mr. Macowan gathered it wild many years ago in 

 No-man's Land, near the south-western frontier of Natal, and 

 and from thence brought bulbs into cultivation. We have 

 had it growing for some time in the Palm-house at Kew, and 

 the drawing was made from a plant that flowered there this 

 present spring. 



Desck. Bulb reaching a diameter of nine or ten incites, 

 sheathed witb brown tunics and produced into a neck nearly 

 a foot long below the rosette of leaves. Leaves twelve or 

 fifteen to a rosette, spreading, lorate, bright green, thin and 

 rather fleshy in texture, reaching a length of three or four 



BEPTEMBEB 1st, 1878. 



