Crinum, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ~_ 338" 
inches broad. Scapes from the exterior axills, solitary, 
about two feet long, surface smooth, inside flattened, about 
as thick as a man’s thumb. Umbels composed of about 
forty middling-sized, pure white, long-pedicelled, sweetly 
fragrant flowers. Tube of the corol sub-semicylindric, 
two and a half inches long ; border of six linear chan- 
nelled, obtuse, alternately uncinate, recurved segments, 
which are larger than the tube. Filaments scarcely more 
than half the length of the segments of the border of the 
corol, ascending towards the point, coloured. Anthers li- 
near. Germ elevated on pretty long, thick pedicells, and 
as in the other species, only apparently three-celled, the 
receptacles being in fact parietal, and only meeting in the 
centre ; ovula several, in two vertical rows, attached to the 
double margin of the receptacle.  Sty/e above the mouth 
of the tube, three-cornered, and about as long as the fila- 
ments. Stigma of minute lobes. 
9. C. superbum, R, 
Caulescent. Leaves lanceolate, smooth, margined. Um- 
bel of from twenty to thirty, pedicelled flowers ; tube of 
the corol equalling the regular border. 
A native of the interior forests of Sumatra from thence 
‘sent by Dr. Charles Campbell to the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta where it thrives luxuriantly, and blossoms at 
various periods through the year. This is the largest and 
by far the most beautiful species of Crinum I have yet 
met with, and if the fragrance of its numerous large flow- _ 
ers is taken into the account, it is probably the most de- © 
sirable of all the liliaceous tribe. . 
Root of many fleshy, ramous fibres from the rounded ‘ 
base of the stem, for there is scarcely any appearance of 
abulb, Stem short, in six or seven year-old plants from 
twelve to eighteen inches high, as thick as aman’sleg, or 
more, invested with the withered sheathes of the leaves, oe 
from its base and lower part shoots spring, in such abun- 
ne eanil” 
