a 
134 ~~. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Crinum, 
dance as to render it readily multiplied. Leaves sparse, 
sheathing, lanceolate, straight and smooth, margins also 
smooth ; points blunt, deeply concave on the upper sur-_ 
face ; held between theeye and the light they are beau- 
tifully striated with numerous, simple, straight, longitudi- 
nal lines, and between these, tessellated with transverse, — 
green veins; from three to six feet long, and from three to. 
six inches broad about the middle, which is the broadest’ 
part. Scape from the stem immediately below the leaves 
about three or four feet long, much compressed, particu- _ 
larly on the inside, and about as thick asa man’s ~ 
thumb. Umbel from twenty to thirty-flowered. Involu- 
cre of two large, long, cordate, reflexed, coloured exterior — 2g 
leaves ; with numerous filaments mixed among the flow- 
ers. Flowers very large, pedicelled, rose-coloured, de- 
lightfully fragrant ; tube obscurely three-sided, about five 
or six inches long, deeply. coloured ; segments of the bor- 
der equally disposed, linear-lanceolate,revolute,as long as, 
or longer than the tube, deep rose colour on the outside, _ 
pale pink within, apices alternately uncinate. Germ in- . 
ferior, oblong; three-celled, with a few ovula in each, at- 
tached to a fleshy receptacle, which appear to originate ; 
in the centre, from the axis, but their real insertion is in- 
to the walls of the Germ. Style declinate, the length of 
the deeply coloured, equally incurved, slender filaments. 
Stigma small, perforated, and obscurely three-lobed. 
The ripe seed vessel has not yet been seta, they : 
have continued abortive in Bengal. at 
9. C. toxicarium, R. ee 
Caulescent. Leaves sparse, lanceolar. Flowers pedi- 
celled, numerous, even as far as sixty ina hemispheri¢ — 
umbel, Capsules with one or more bulbiform seeds. 
- Crinum asiaticum. Bot. Meg! N. shoal 2 has the im 
leaf of this species. bere’ 
Radix toxicaria. Rumph. Amb. 6. var. 1st. p. 15868: 
