(4%. ) 
but afterwards shrinking again to a point*. Limb of the corolla 
funnel-shaped, or campanulate, or cup-shaped, or radiate, or re- 
flected. Germen originally 3-celled, but,the mature capsule 
usually only one-celled, burst when ripe by the weight of the 
seeds, but not furnished with sutures that open like that of 
Amaryllis. Seeds fleshy, green, generally large, but of very 
irregular shape and size, more or less wrinkled, but never 
shining, bursting the internal divisions of the capsule as they 
swell. Buds inclining more or less some hours before 
they expand, and rising again as they are about to open. 
Leaves embracing each other, in most species persistent and 
multifarious. Bulb spherical, or columnar, or with tunics 
divided to the base. | 
In cruentum, erubescens, defixum, amabile, scaberrimum, 
Broussoneti, and others, the buds nod completely. In pedun- 
culatum, canaliculatum, bracteatum, and capense (A. longz- 
Jolia Linn.) the inclination of the bud is much less, but it 
always takes place, though the degree varies in the different 
species. This does not occur in Amaryllis or any of the 
other genera allied to it. 'The incurvation of the tube is also 
peculiar to the genus Crinum. The degree of the expansion 
of the corolla and the inclination or bending of the filaments — 
are specific features ; but they do not appear to be of any 
importance in determining the generic character, because 
they vary without any relation to each other in the different 
species. The filaments are indeed frequently bent in one 
flower and straight in another of a crowded liliaceous umbel, 
especially in Coburgia and Nerine, according to the more 
erect or horizontal posture of the flower. In Crinum pedun- 
culatum and canaliculatum the tube is nearly straight, the 
filaments and limb arranged in a star, the style straight. In 
erubescens and cruentum the corolla is reflected, and at last 
pendulous, the style and four or five filaments bent, one, or 
sometimes two, detached and erect. In americanum the 
tube and filaments are more bent, the corolla less expanded 
and reflected. In amabile the style and filaments a little 
curved, the lacinie of the corolla, unless at the last, not 
* The fimbrie on the stigma of capense as well as brevifolium, &c. are 
short and conical. I ‘have no certain memorandum as to those on Brous- 
someti and the species allied to it, in which they may possibly be slenderer. 
expanding 
