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Crinum Supmersum. Lake Crinum. 
KEKE EERE RERERERER 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character.—Vide No. 2292. 
Addendum. Scapus solidus, demum flaccidus. 
7 Specific Character. 
Sect. I]. Semipatentes. Subd. J. Ornate. 
RINUM submersum; bulbo oblongo-ovato rubescente ; 
foliis loratis canaliculatis, acutis margine scabro ; 
scapo 8-[ pluri ?]-floro sesquipedali compresso, viridi ; 
spatha 4-unciali, bracteis gracilibus ; germine sessili 
oblongo-ovali viridi; loculis 7-spermis; tubo 5-un- 
ciali viridescente ; laciniis 4-uncialibus albis intis et 
exttis rubro-striatis apice acuto rubro, ovalibus, basi 
canaliculato, temeré 23 vel +3 latis, tribus externis 
uncatis ; genitalibus assurgenter curvatis ; stylo rubro 
limbo breviore filamentis longiore; stigmate minuto 
trilobo albo; filamentis basi sub-gibbos&; antheris 
pallidé cinerascentibus, polline luteo; floribus fra- 
grantibus ante expansionem nutantibus. W.H. 
_ Descr. Bulb oblong-ovate, purplish red, three inches 
diameter; leaves yellowish green, sharp-pointed, chan- 
helled, with a rough edge; scape eight or more flowered, 
eighteen inches high, a little flattened, green, stained with 
-Teddish near the base ; spathe near four inches long, withering 
early; bractes slender ; gerimen sessile, oblong-oval, green; 
cells seven-seeded ; tube five inches long, greenish yellow; 
lacinie four inches long, white, striped with pink, sharp- 
Pointed, tipped with red, oval, channelled near the base, 
the three outer hooked ; genitals curved upwards; style 
red, a little shorter than the limb, longer than the filaments; 
minute, three-lobed, white ; filaments a little 
knobbed at their insertion; anthers before their inversion 
Pale ash-colour, mottled with straw-colour ; pollen deep 
Yellow ; flowers nodding before expansion, fragrant. *o 
a rag >. 
