less than three inches long-, white. Fila?7icnts spreading in 

 the channels of the corresponding petals with their points 

 curved inwards; anthers dark brown, versatile; pollen orange. 

 Style inclined, coloured as well as the filaments one half of its 

 length, and both an inch shorter than the limb. Stigma a 

 whitish fimbriated point, when perfect minutely three-lobed, 

 like that of C. flaceidum. Umbel with six to ten flowers, 

 fragrant at night. Seeds flatter than in most species. 



Dr. Roxburgh observes that although the germen is sub- 

 sessile, the capsule is occasionally protruded on a short 

 peduncle. In our plant the germen and ripe capsules were 

 absolutely sessile; in Crinum erubeseens however, of which 

 the germen is in general almost sessile, that of a seventh 

 central flower is occasionally on a peduncle nearly two inches 

 long ; so that it is very possible that Crinum dejixum may vary 

 in the manner he. has stated. 



This very elegant species thrives in our stoves with the 

 bulb entirely above ground and stript of all its obsolete coats, 

 Mnder which treatment it is of the same glossy green as the 

 leaves. In the summer time it should be plunged in water 

 just deep enough to cover the bulb. Strong bulbs will flower 

 twice between June and October. The length of the tube of 

 Crinum dejixum varies much in different flowers produced 

 by the same bulb ; in our specimen it was three inches and 

 a half. In all the species of Crinum of which the limb nods 

 before its expansion, the tube appears to be permanent while 

 the seed is ripening; in those of which the limb is only inclined 

 without nodding, the tube perishes in great part and sometimes 

 entirely. The nodding and inclination of the limb do not take 

 place if the plants are removed into a low temperature ; and 

 it seems probable that in the species of which the tube is very 

 strong, it resists the influence of the light and heat which in 

 that case acts upon the limb entirely ; while in those, of which 

 the tube is less rigid, it yields a little, and the limb is less power- 

 fully affected. It is a singular feature of the genus Crinum 

 that some species have the cells originally monospermous, some 

 two seeded, some four seeded, and others polyspermous, but 

 with so much variation that C. flaceidum has seven ovula in 

 each cell and C. capense, which is closely allied to it, from 

 twenty-seven to thirty-one in each cell ; and that the monos- 

 permous and polyspermous sorts breed as freely together as 

 those which might be thought more nearly allied. W. H- 



For the whole of this article, as well as for the drawing, 

 we are indebted to the Rev. and Hon. William Herbert. 



a. The bulb, natural size with a stolon issuing from it. b. A teed- 

 c. A miniature of the wkole plant, shewing the line of water. 



