funnel-shaped, with the points bent back, drooping before 

 expansion. Lacinia white, striped outside with red and 

 greenish towards the base, ending- with a hook, 3^ inches 

 long, the three inner not an inch, the three outer more than 

 an inch wide. Filaments white, curved upwards; anthers 

 ash coloured ; pollen very pale yellow ; style curved like the 

 filaments and of the same length, red towards the end; stigma 

 a white triangular point, a little divided. Germen short, 

 sessile. Cells one-seeded, a. represents a ripe seed ; b. a 

 miniature of the whole plant. 



This species was first discovered by Dr. Carey in the North 

 of Bengal ; in foliage it very much resembies Crinum moluc- 

 cannm, but it is a plant of larger stature, and it may be easily 

 distinguished in a young state, by a much slenderer and some- 

 what oblique point to the leaf. 



It requires the earth in which it grows to be kept constantly 

 moist, though it is not so impatient of sunshine as moluccanum. 

 It thrives well with a pan of moist sand under it upon a warm 

 flue, and flowers freely, especially in the autumn, usually pro- 

 ducing two successive scapes. 



It is worthy of observation, that although it nearly agree? 

 with C. capense in the form of the corolla, and in the perish- 

 able tube of which scarcely J of an inch is persistent, the cells 

 which in capense are from 27 to 31 seeded, are in this species 

 1 -seeded. The number of ovules varies exceedingly in the 

 different species of most genera of Amaryllideae, and cannot 

 be relied upon as a generic character. 



It is observable that in some specimens, or perhaps in a 

 variety of C. Broussoneti, differing in no other respect, the 

 stigma is very deeply 3-cieft. The greater or less division of 

 a stigma which is angular or lobed appears to be a very un- 

 certain feature. The various species of Crinum differ much 

 in the greater or less width and expansion of the laciniae, but 

 there is quite as much difference between the breadth of the 

 outer and inner laciniae in the narrower C. erubescens as in 

 C. speciosu?n-or any of the broad sorts. That the lacinia? of 

 the narrower sorts become pendulous or revolute, is probably 

 owing to the want of breadth to support their length, upon 

 the same principle that makes a slender slip of paper curl or 

 hang down while a broader one remains straight. 



Was. Herbert. 



