Tab. 7S12. 



CEmUM JOHNSTONI. 

 Native of British Central Africa. 



Nat. Old. AMABYLLiDEiK — Trile Amarylle,b. 

 Genus Cbinuji, JAnn.\ {Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 726.) 



Crinum (Codonocrinum) Johnstoni ; bulbo ^loboso magnitudine mediocri collo 

 hand prod ucto, foliis circiter 20 viridibas apicem versus longe atteouatis, 

 exterioribus ensiformibus 6-6-pedahbus, interioribus linearibna, scapo 

 modice valido elongate, umbelUs multifloria, pedicellis brevibus, spathaa 

 yalvis lanceolato-deltoideis, perianthii tube leviter curvato 4 poll, longo, 

 limbo tubo^ breviori, segmentis ovatis vel oblongis aoiitia dorso leviter 



rubro tinctis, genitalibas declinatis limbo vix brevioribus. 



A number of bulbs of this new Grinum were sent from 

 Mount Zomba, forty miles north of Blantyre, in British 

 Central Africa, in January, 1899, to the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, by Mr. McClonnie, chief of the forest department 

 in that Colony. It is now clear that Tropical Africa is 

 the head-quarters of the genus, as it has yielded nearly 

 forty species. We do not know from what height on 

 Mount Zomba the bulbs came, but the mountain reaches 

 an altitude of five thousand one hundred and thirty-five 

 feet. The present plant is intermediate between the 

 Tropical Asian G. latifolium, which it resembles in the 

 flowers, and the Cape G. longifolium, Thunb., which it 

 resembles in its long narrow leaves attenuated very 

 gradually to the point. In C Johnstoyii, however, the 

 leaves are bright green, whilst in G. longifolium they 

 are glaucous. It has flowered freely in the Succulent 

 House at Kew, but has not been tried in the open air. 

 The name it bears is commemorative of the great services 

 rendered to civilization in Tropical Africa by Sir Henry 

 Hamilton Johnston, ■ g.C.lT ^ late (1891-7) H.M. Com- 

 missioner and Consul-General for territories north of the 

 Zambesi, subsequently Administrator of the Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate. 



Descr. — BuJb globose, three or four inches in diameter, 

 without any produced neck. Leaves about twenty to a 

 bulb, bright green, narrowed gradually to a long point, 

 January 1st, 1002. 



