( 2292 ) 

 Crinum moluccanum. Molucca Crinum. 



Cfoss <7??(Z Order. 

 Kexandria Monogyma. 



Generic Character. 



Ihdbus coluumaris vel aphaetietts. /*V/« multifaria (nisi 

 in C. disticho). Scapus 1 — 60-florus., seminibus maturesccn- 

 .tibus flaccidus. Germen media parte crassiiis, triloculare, 

 sessile vel pedunculo direete contiuuatiim. Tubus trigone 

 cylindricus, genuine direete continuatus eoque gracilior. 

 Lacinia alterme sub-requales., interna? plerumque latiores. 

 Limbus patens vel semipatens, ante expansionem inclinatus 

 vel nutans' Filamenta extra faucein tubi inserta, alterna 

 vix profuudius et niarginibus lacmiarum interiorum puncto 

 insertionis adnata. Stylus gracilis,, apicem versus tenuior. 

 Stigma obtusum, trSgonum., vel trilobatum. Capsula dis- 

 sepimentorum destructione 1 — 2-locularis., sacpe difformis 

 valvis nullis vel obsoletis, seminibus temere disrupta. 

 Ovula in pluri-speruiis vix discreta, sed massac cuiduin non 

 soparabili in medio positse adhaerentia, apicibus versus dis- 

 sepimenta tenden ti bus. Semina carnosa, integumento 

 viridi non separabili, saepius magna, difl'ormia ; embryo 

 cylindrico radicula temere albumen perforante. W. H. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Crinum moluccanum ; bulbo sphfiBfico, spatba bifida erccta 

 obtusa., iloribus sessilibus, tubo linibum a>quante, 

 foliis lanccolatis apice elongatis deorsum uudulatis. 



Crinum moluccanum. Roxb. Fl. hid. or. inodit. Ker in 

 Joum. Sc. $• Arts. Herbert supra n. 2221. p. 6. 



Descr. " Bulb nearly sphaerical, the size of a goose's 

 egg\ when stripped of its dead integuments of a pale purple 

 colour, very different from the deep crimson of Crinum Zejjla- 

 nicum." Leaves pale green, striate lanceolate, tapering to a 

 point, undulated towards the base, nearly two feet long', and 



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