132 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Crinum, — 
Root perennial, ovate, with many thick, fleshy, fibres, 
descending from its crown. Stem none, at least scarcely 
any thing that can be so called has yet appeared after 
ten years culture, Leaves radical, straight, rigid, linear- 
lanceolate, rather obtusely pointed, concave on the upper 
surface ; smooth on both sides, with their margins whit- _ 
ish, callous and hispid, held between the light and the’ 
eye, beautifully striated with double lines, and tessellated 
with transverse green veins, from three to six feet long, 
and from three to six inches broad. Scapes axillary, so- — 
litary, much shorter than the leaves, smooth, a little’ 
compressed. Umbel from ten to twenty-flowered. In- 
volucre two-leaved, with filamentaceous fibres mixed 
amongst the pedicells. Flowers large, white, pedicelled. _ e 
Corol ; tube cylindric, about four inches long, divisions of 
the border linear, as long as the tube, having their — 
apices alternately hooked. Filaments ascending, colour- 
ed, shorter than the segments of the corol, Anthers li- 
near, incumbent. Germ inferior, subsessile, scarcely 
thicker than the tube ofthe corol, three-celled, in the in- 
ner angle of each isa fleshy succulent receptacle in which 
one, two, or three seeds are found immersed. Style a 
shorter than the stamina. Fruit the size of a man’s fist 3 
cells uncertain, the partitions being obliterated, but the : 
whole contains one, two, or three large, bulbiform seeds, 
covered with a tender, somewhat fleshy envelope, which 
does not open in any regular form, but soon decays. 
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8. C. canaliculatum. R. 
Stemless. Leaves linearly tapering, nie aveapetiaes 
_ twice the length of the inflorescence. Umbels, from 
thirty to fifty-flowered ; flowers pedicelled, regular, Seg- 
ments of the border linear, channelled; obtuse, longer — 
than the tube. Leaves from eight to fourteen, sparse, li 
near, tapering near the apex channelled, margins quite 
smooth ; from three to five feet long, and {rom three to four- 
