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CftlNUM ENSIFOLIUM. SwORD-LEAVED 



Crinum. 



Class and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — Vide No. 2392, 

 Specific Character and Synonym*. 



Sect. 1. Patentes. Subdiv. nutantes. 



Crinum ensifolium; bulbo ovato stolonifero, foliis suberec- 

 tis angustis acutis, scapo purpureo, floribus patentibus 

 5 — 6, limbo albo extus purpurascente, tubo purpureo, 

 genuine subsessili purpureo, loculis dispermis. 



Crinum ensifolium. Roxburg. Hort. Beng. Ker. Journ. 

 Sc. et A. Nobis supra 2231, in specierum enumeratione 

 et in appendice p. 22. 



Desc. Bulb green, ovate, stoloniferous. Leaves nearly 

 erect, narrow, acute, an inch wide, sometimes about three 

 feet long. Scape purple. Flowers five of six, patent, 

 fragrant. Limb white, near four inches long, narrow, the 

 outer petals purplish without. Tube purple, four inches 

 long. Germ subsessile, purple. Cells with two ovules. 

 This species is a native of Pegu, and closely allied to C. 

 Defixum, from which it may be however easily distin- 

 guished by the point of its leaves being less erect and more 

 acute. It is a smaller and much more delicate plant than 

 Defixum, requiring a stronger heat and less water, the 

 lower part of the bulb being very liable to be injured by 

 too much wet, It encreases fast by stolones, but does not 

 flower so freely as C. Dejixum. 



Flowered at SpofForth in April 1821 as is supposed (or 

 we first time in Europe JfV W 



