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Note. I suspect that two or more, very distinct spe- 
cies have hitherto been included under one specific name ;— 
which I have now assigned to the above described, by 
far the smallest of the two, and no doubt Van Rheede’s 
Beluta pola tali. The other, Rumphius’s first species 
of Radix Toxicaria, which is the one he has figured, and 
now called by me Crinum Toxicarium, was, | believe, con- 
sidered by Konig to be C. latifolium of Linn. and was for- 
merly described and figured by me as such. 
3. C. ensifolium. R. 
Bulb ovate. Leaves sparse, straight, énsiform:” 
A native of Pegu from thence introduced by Dr. W. 
‘Carey into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta but has not yet 
blossomed there. In habit it most resembles Asiaticum 
but differs from that species in the shape of tbe bulb. 
The leaves also differ, for here they are less channelled, 
taper more toward the apex whichis much shorter ; other 
differences will, no doubt, be found when the flowers ap. - 
pear. 
4. C. brevifolium. R. 
Bulb stemless. Leaves rigid, straight, lanceolate, broad, 
obtuse-pointed, waved, margins smooth. Umbels from 
ten to twelve flowered ; flowers regular, short-pedicelled. 
Segments of the border equalling the trigonal tube. 
This elegant, rather small, very well marked species, 
has been introduced from. the Mauritius into the Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta where it blossoms during the hot and 
Yainy season. 
Leaves six or eight from each bulb, sparse, straight, 
Spreading a little, lanceolar, broad, obtuse, pointed, mar- 
gins smooth, from twelve to eighteen inches long, and. 
two and a half or three inches broad. Scapes from 
the axills of the old withered leaves, much compress- . 
ed, about twelve inches high, Involucre two-leaved, 
from ten to twelve flowered. Flowers large, whites and 
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