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Crinum hybridum Erubescente-Capense. 

 Hybrid Erubescent Cape Crinum. 



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C/ass «wrf Order. 



Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — Vide supra No. 2292. 



Hybrid Character. 



Crinum hybridum erubescente-capense ; foliis acutis sub 7- 

 pedalibus 5 uncias latis, saturate viridibus, margine 

 scabro ; scapo 4-pedali basi purpurascente ; germine 

 viridi breviter pedunculato ; tubo flaccide curvat. 

 viridi 5-unciali ; laciniis 3^-uncialibus albis rubro 

 pallide striatis, interioribus unciam, exteris f latis; 

 filamentis assurgenter curvatis limbo brevioribus, basi 

 sub-gibbosa. 



Descr. Circumference of the neck of the bulb 10 inches. 

 Leaves 1.8, the longest near seven feet long, acute, deep 

 green, 5 inches wide, with a rough margin. Scape 4 feet 

 high, purple near the base. Peduncles % of an inch long, 

 green. Germen green. Cells with about 14 ovules. Tube 

 green, curved, 5 inches long. Limb white, striped chiefly 

 on the outside with red, 3 and \ inches long, the inner an 

 inch, the outer f wide. Filaments with the points curved 

 upwards like fishhooks, red towards the extremity. Style 

 as well as the longest filaments about an inch shorter than 

 the limb, a little knobbed at their insertion. Flowers about 

 eleven nearly resembling those of C. capense in fragrance 

 and expansion. 



The bulb which produced our specimen was raised at 

 Spofforth from seed of C. capense ripened in a pond in the 

 garden in the autumn of 1818, the stigma having been 

 impregnated by the pollen of C. erubescens v. major, and 



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