214 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
310. CRINUM. L. 
— Corolla superior, funnelform, half 6-cleft; 
tube filiform, border spreading and. recurved; 
segments subulate, chanelled. Filaments in- 
serted upon the orifice of the tube, separate. 
Spatha 2-parted, many-flowered, in some species bulbs 
are produced amongst the capsules. 
Species. 1. C. americanum. Plentiful in the marshes 
around New Orleans, Louisiana. 
_ _ A tropical genus of great splendour, of which there are 
_ 2 species in India, 1 in Africa, and 3 in America; the na- 
tive place of C. bracieatum is unknown. 
: Corolla superior, hexapetaloid, irregular. 
Filaments of the stamina originating from the 
orifice of the tube, declinate, (or straight,) un- 
equal in proportion or direction. 
Spatha 1 or many-flowered, opening laterally. 
Spectes. 1. A. Atamasco. In Virginia and Carolina. 
A very splendid and numerous genus, chiefly tropical, 
and principally indigenous to America and the southern 
extremity of Africa; a few species exist in India and 
China, 1 in Europe, 1 in Siberia, and 1 on the borders of 
the Caspian sea. anes 
312, ALLIUM. L. (Garlick, Leek, Onion, &c.) 
Corolla 6-parted, spreading. Spatha many- 
flowered. Umbell crowded. Capsule superior, 
3-celled, 3-valved, many-seeded. 
Flowers capitate or umbellate; leaves flat or fistulous; 
umbell in some species bulbiferous; in some the fila- 
ments are tricuspidate, with the central cusp bearing the 
Srecres. 1. A. vincale. Naturalized. Now a preva- 
lent and injurious weed. 2. fragrans. 3. striatum. 4. an- 
guiosum. Two varieties, oné with white and another with 
purple flowers. On the banks of the Missouri, abundant. 
certigam. 6. stellatum. Sims, Hot. Mag. Ons. Scape 19. 
to 15 ineéfes high. Leaf linear, channelled, under side 
_ earinate, about a line and ‘a half broad, and 10 lines long. — 
Scape subtriquetrous, umbelliferous, umbell fastigiates 
