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Crinum Declinatum. Sloping-flowered 



Crinum. 



Class and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Vide supra, No. 2217. 



Specific Character. 



Crinum declinatum; bulbo oblongo, foliis suberecto-recurvis 

 acutis undulatis margine laevibus, scapo multifloro, corollas 

 laciniis loratis, germinibus pedunculatis assurgenter cur- 

 vatis. 



Desc. Bulb green, columnar, about 7 inches long : leaves 

 somewhat erect with the point acute and hanging down, un- 

 dulated, smooth edged, 4|- inches wide. Spathe 4 inches or 

 more ; Umbel about 24-flowered. Flowers sweet, successive, 

 nodding before their expansion : tube green, 3 inches long : 

 lacinice bent back, channelled, \ of an inch wide, 4§ inches 

 long, stained with red on the outside towards the end, 

 especially in the buds, the three exterior ending in a claw, 

 the three inner notched at the point; filaments wide spread 

 and bent upwards, deep red the upper half of their length, 

 the three outer \ an inch, the three inner ;§ of an inch longer 

 than the style : anthers long with orange pollen ; style red ; 

 stigma a red triangular point ; germen and peduncle each 

 near an inch long, horizontal, curved upwards, green speckled 

 with red ; cells one-seeded : Ovule oblong-oval. 



Some bulbs of this unreporded species of Crinum, which 

 I believe were received by Dr. Carey from Silhet, were sent 

 two or three years ago from Calcutta under the mistaken 

 name of sumatranum, which is a very different species with 

 rigid and rough-edged leaves, and a sessile or sub-sessile 

 germen. 



Specierum 



