130 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Crinum, 
faintly fragrant, short-pedicelled. Tube slender, about 
three inches long, trigonal. Segments of the border six, 
linear, recurved, length of the tube. Filaments equal, 
and equally disposed, shorter than the segments of the 
border. Anthers linear, incumbent. Germ, style, and 
stigma as in the other species. 
5. C. longifolium. R. : 
Bulb spherical, stemless.. Leaves linear, long, droop- 
ing, channelled, maryins slightly scabrous. Umbel from 
ten to twelve flowered ; flowers subsessile, 
__A native of the interior parts of Bengal where it was 
found in single plants among grass, and on low inundated. 
ground, by Dr. Carey, and by him introduced into the 
Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it flowers and ripens 
its seed during the rainy season, It comes nearest C. 
asiaticum, but differs muchin appearance, and in the size — 
and shape of the bulb, This being a much better looking 
plant, the bulbous root has not the long spindle-shaped 
crown of that species, which penetrates deep into the mud 
on the borders of creeks, where that plant is fase: “aed 
found, 
Root many strong, fleshy Sbies! from the crown of : 
round, tunicated bulb, which penetrate deep into the 
soil. Leaves many, equally disposed in all sides, de-' 
clinate, tapering regularly from the base to a fine point; — 
general length from two to three feet, including their — 
withered apices, concave, but no keel, margins cartilagte 
nous, and hispid, striated, breadth about two inches at 
the base. Scapes axillary, length various ; in low inun- 
dated places, sufficiently long to raise the flowers above 
the water ; in the Botanic Garden, on dry ground, always 
much shorter than the leaves, variously bent, a little 
compressed, smooth. Umbel, with from eight ‘to twelve 
sessile, large white, fragrant flowers, intermixed with 
filiform bractes. Spathetwo-leaved. Calyx none. Corol 
