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CRINUM PLICATUM. PLAITED-LEAVED 
Crinum. 
Class and Order. git Ba 
HEXANDRIA Monoeynta. rai 
( Nat. Ord. — AMARYLLIDER. yA 
Generic Character. a 
Cor. 6-partita subregularis, laciniis apice uncinatis. Stam. 
recta, tubo inserta. Caps. trilocularis. Spr. 
‘Specific “Charatte? and Synonym. 
Crinum* plicatum ; foliis supra basin alato-expansis, alis 
_ plicatis. : Gta 
inuM plicatum. Livingstone MSS. 
_. Descr. From the top of the Bulb arise several dark-green 
leaves, from a foot and a half to two feet long, sheathing at 
the very base and striated : at some little distance above 
the base, the margin is suddenly and very curiously ex- 
panded intoa broad, membranaceous, striated, and singularly 
-_plaited wing, which, upwards, gradually becomes attenuat- 
ed into the extremity of the leaf itself. In other respects 
the plant so much resembles the Crinum asiaticum, that it 
1s not necessary here to describe it. | 
About five years since Dr. Livinestone obligingly com- 
municated to our Glasgow Botanic Garden, a bulb of this 
Singular plant from China, and he sent me a drawing of 
the natural size, made in that country, which, after compar- 
ing with our plant that flowered in the spring of last year, 
1828, I have here copied upon a greatly reduced scale. I 
3 confess 
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* From xpos, a Greek word for the Lily, and hence applied to other showy 
flowers allied to that tribe. 
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