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-CRINUM CONFERTUM. CrowDED-FLOWERED 
Crinum. : 
ae oeoteokazekcokiteok sates steotaate 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character.—Vide supra No. 2292, et No. 2463. 
Specific Character. 
Crinum confertum; bulbo ovato, foliis bipedalibus mar- 
gine levi, 14 unc. latis, canaliculatis, apice obliquo 
gradatim attenuatis ; umbella circiter 8-flora ; scapo 
compresso viridi pedali ; spatha viridi 33-unciali, 
_bracteis gracilibus; germine viridi semunciali ob- 
longo sessili, loculis 5—8-spermis ; tubo viridi erecto 
3-unciali ; limbo albo 33-unciali, laciniis exteris 3, 
internis } unc. latis ; stylo purpureo laciniis aliquan- 
tulum breviore ; stigmate trilobo purpureo; filamentis 
stylo sesquiunciam brevioribus, divaricatis, purpureis, 
versus basin albis, basi gibbos4, apice aliquantulum 
sursum curvato; polline aureo. W.H. ~ 
Descr. This species differs from Crinum arenarium in 
having: the coats of the bulb harder, the leaves more atte- 
nuated, the flowers more numerous and erect, the germen 
longer, oblong, and sessile, the style a little shorter than 
the limb, and the limb longer than the tube. Our speci- 
men flowered in June, in the stove of the Earl of Carnarvon 
at Highclere. It is a native of the N. W. coast of Australia, 
from whence it was sent by the collector, under the naine 
of Crinum angustifolium of Brown, a species with rough- 
edged leaves, which does not appear to have been yet 
introduced into this country. W. H. 
