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_ subsessile, fragrant during the night. Corol ; tube cyl 
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128 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Crinum. 
Leaves sparse, rigidly linear, chanelled, ebtuse, jointed ; 
margins smooth. Umbels from ten to twelve flowered ; 
flowers subsessile. Style as long as the stamens. 
Beng. Sookh-dursun. 
Belutta pola taly. Reed. Mal. Vol. 11.€. 38. ; 
This plant, which I now consider to be Crinum asia- % 
ticum of Linneus, may have been the only asiatic. species 
known to him when he wrote his Flora Zeylanica, grows 
on the moist muddy or swampy banks of rivers and is in 
blossom the greater part of the year, and is no doubt 
Rumph. second species of Radixtoxicaria. Herb, Am. 6. p. 
156. which like ours delights in swampy banks of creeks, 
&c. where mud abounds. : 
_ Root bulbous, with a terminal, stoloniferous, fusi form 
portion issuing from the crown of the bulb, descending 
deep into the mud or earth; from the last mentioned pot 
tion issue the ramons fibrous roots. Stem none. Leaves — 
radical, equally disposed on every side, linear, concave, 
(so much so that asection forms nearly a perfect sewicit- 
cle,) no keel ; margins smooths ; length from one to three 
feet, and Cs broadest little more than three-fourths of 
aninch. Scapes generally shorter than the longer leay 
a little compressed. smooth, often coloured. Umbels with 
from six to sixteen flowers. Spathe two leaved, with f 
liform bractes amongst the flowers. Flowers lates ite, 
dric, from four to six. inches long, coloured, or “pale-greem, 
according to exposure, smooth. Divisions of the bord 
linear-lanceolate equally disposed; margins waved alittle, 
ayecurved process at the apex of each. Filaments & 
qually disposed, ascending, upper half coloured. Anthers- 
linear, incumbent. Germ beneath’ Style as long as the 
stamina, declined. Stigma simple. Berry membranace 
ous, subglobose, containing in one cell, one or two rugose, 
bulb-like seeds and although the flowers are sul sub: 
the — are — a 
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