confess myself unable to decide upon what constitutes a 
species and what a variety in this most variable tribe of 
plants. 1 cannot do better, then, than follow the opinion of 
my valued friend Dr. Liyinestons who has cultivated it in 
China, along with the Crinum asiaticum (its nearest ally,) 
and who, from many years’ experience, finds it to be per- 
anent in its character. He observed that it was not diffi- 
It to increase it; and at Macao he obtained several 
individuals by offsets from the bulbs. It has, he observes, 
‘not unfrequently three flowering stems from the same bulb, 
and each stem about twenty flowers. — 
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