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Crinum arenarium. Water-island 

 Sand Crinum. 



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C/lem and Order. 



Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — Vide No. 2292. 



Specific Character. 



Sect. 1. Patentes. Subdiv. nutantes. 



Crinum arenarium, bulbo ovato, foliis bipedalibus margine 

 sub-scabro, seapo pedali, umbella 5-flora breviter pe- 

 dunculata, genuine ;|-unciali, tubo sub-4-unciali vi- 

 ridescente, limbo sub-3-unciali albo, stylo laciniis et 

 filamentis longiore. 



Descr. Bulb ovate, covered with whitish brown coats. 

 Leaves two feet long, one inch and half wide, and a little 

 purple near the base, tapering towards the point, with the 

 edges a little rough, rather more glaucous, and less erect 

 than those of americanum, which they much resemble. 

 Scape near a foot, green. Spathe one inch and half. Umbel 

 5-flowered, with bractes. Peduncles three eights of an inch 

 long ; germen quarter of an inch long. Cells with six 

 ovules. Tube near four inches long, pale green, faintly 

 speckled with red, at first curved, afterwards more erect. 

 Limb white, two inches and three quarters long, the outer 

 segments three quarters wide, the inner a little narrower, 

 all terminating with a green point. Filaments a little 

 knobbed at their insertion, purple except near their base, 

 at first declined with their points curved upwards, afterwards 

 diverging with conniving points, the base of each being 

 embraced by the margins of the corresponding segment of 

 the limb; the outer filaments six eights, the inner five 



eights 



