H/EMANTHUS orient alls. Thanh. Prod. Fl. Capenf. 59. 

 NARCISSUS indicus orientalis. Swert. Floril. tab. §.f. 1. fine 



fore. 

 N. indicus flore liliaceo fphsericus. Ferrari Flor. 125. tab. 129, 



130, 131. 

 LILIO-NARCISSUS indicus phceniceus fphaericus vulgo po- 



lyanthos. Barrelier. Ic. 1037, 1038. 

 L..-N. indicus maximus fphaericus floribus pluribus rubris lilia- 



ceis. Morif. Hiji. 1. 368. fett. 4. tab. 10. fig. 35. 

 B R U N S V I G I A . Heijier. Monogr. cum konibus. 

 CRINUM Candelabrum. Hortulanis colonicis C. B. Spei. 



Desc. Bulb tunicate, attaining the fize of a child's head, in- 

 teguments brown, fibres as thick as a common quill ; leaves 

 5 — 8 inches long, 2 — 3 broad, fmooth, ftriate ; /cape 8 — 12 

 inches high, an inch or more in diameter ; peduncles fix inches 

 long, as thick as a large quill ; corolla rather more than two inches 

 long, of a bright fcarlct colour, fegments half an inch broad; 

 anthers black-purple ; capfule nearly two inches long, femitranf- 

 parent, of a light brown colour, deeply depreffed at the fummit. 

 In the prefent fpecies, as well as mfalcata (fee No. 1443 of the 

 prefent work) the ftem is very fhort in proportion to its thicknefs, 

 as alio to the other parts of the plant. Spontaneous fpe- 

 cimens have been known to have a capfule four inches long, a 

 ftem a foot and an half high, with the other parts in proportion. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it is laid in the 

 Hortus Kewenfis to have been introduced by Mr. Malcolm, 

 in 1 767 ; it had however been cultivated by the author of the 

 Gardener's Dictionary, previous to that period. Known in the 

 Dutch and Italian gardens nearly a century and an half ago. 

 The older Botanilts fuppofed it to be an Eaft-Indian vegetable, 

 an error that mifled Linn v. us into the adoption of the fpecific 

 name of orientalis. Monf. Redoute, in his fplendid work on 

 the Liliaceous plants (ignorant of its having been already re- 

 corded) has named it after the Emprefs Josephine of France. 

 The Bulbs, when of a proper age, are conftant and regular in 

 the production of bloom ; but thefe being rare in our collections, 

 and immature ones not unfrequent in them, and the laft re- 

 maining years without mewing any lign of flowering, have 

 caufed the plant to be deemed to be difficult of fuccefsful cul- 

 tivation. Our drawing was made from a fpecimen thai bloomed 

 in September lad, and which had been kept in the tan-bed of 

 the hot-houfc, at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Lod dices and Sons, 

 at Hackney, by whom the bulb had been imported ; the leaves 

 were grown out in November. The bloom has no fcent. G. 



