three inches long, red streaked with green ; limb about 

 two inches long, glossy white with a red streak on each 

 segment near the base, becoming after a while deep rose- % 

 coloured without and mottled with rose-colour within, cam- 

 panulate with the points reflected, the inner Segments near 

 an inch wide, obtuse, the outer narrower, hooked; sfr/Zepale 

 red, irregularly incurved or declined, a little shorter than 

 the limb ; stigma large, triangularly rounded, yellowish 

 green ; filaments pale red, diverging with the points con- 

 niving (Quaere whether always?), the outer an inch, the 

 inner f shorter than the style, united at their base which 

 is a little gibbous by a conspicuous glossy green fleshy 

 membrane adhering to the base of the limb. N. B. The 

 stigma became larger and yellower after the drawing was 

 completed. This plant was discovered by Mr. Burchell 

 in the E. of the Cape colony in shallow grassy ponds, liable 

 to be dried up in summer. The figure was made from a 

 specimen produced in May by a bulb given by Mr. B. to 

 the Earl of Carnarvon. It is a hardy green-house plant, 

 not requiring constant immersion. The flowers have a 

 powerful fragrance, a little resembling that of C. capense. 

 The glossy white of the young flowers, and the deep rose- 

 colour of those which are older, form a beautiful contrast. 

 The figure represents the inside which is only mottled ; the 

 outside becomes entirely red. The conspicuous waxy thick 

 membrane appears to be only an extraordinary enlargement 

 of the same process which is distinguishable in C. erubescens, 

 and C. flaccidum ; and perhaps the posture of the filaments 

 is not invariable, since those of C. arenarium and defixum 

 diverge and connive when the flower begins to collapse. 

 The particles of pollen perhaps smaller than those of any 

 other species, and the one-leaved spathe is an anomaly m 

 the genus. Its foliage much resembles that of C. capense 

 but without the glaucous hue, and is still more like that ot 

 C. crassifolium, appendix, p. 23, which last appears to be 

 the Amaryllis revoluta, var. B. of the Bot. Reg. 6lo, a 

 plant differing in habit and perennial foliage from C. revo- 

 lutum, which is Amaryllis revoluta, var. A. Of the Bot. Reg- 

 623. If it had been ascertained that the short filaments 

 of C. aquaticum always connived, considering its other 

 remarkable features, we should have detached it from the 

 genus Crinum under the name Crinopsis. W. H. 



a. Cell showing eight ovules. b. Particle of pollen magnif'*'"* 



c. Dissection to shew the stamens, and the connecting membrane at 

 the faux of the tube. 



