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Crinum. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. “235__ 
Beng. Bura-kanoor. 
Cing. Tolaho.’ 
I have only found it in gardens; where it is indigenous 
I cannot say, in Ceylon I believe. | Flowering time the 
wet season, though more or less the whole year. 
Stem short, but distinct, and stout. Leaves linear-lan- 
ceolar, very smooth ; margins most entire ; under side ele- 
gantly striated length-ways with deeper and lighter 
green; from three to four feet long, and from five to se- 
ven inches broad. Scapes axillary, shorter than the 
leaves, smooth, a little compressed, as thick as a man’s 
thumb. Flowers numerous, often fifty, growing in a he- 
mispherical umbel, white, almost inodorous.  Spathe 
two-valved, with filiform bractes mixed among the 
flowers. Stigma small, entire, three-sided. Berries round- 
ish, the size of alarge pigeon’s egg, smooth, crowned with 
the lower part of the remaining tube of the corol, seldom 
more than one-celled, without any natural opening, and 
containing one or more large, bulb-like, rugose, firm 
fleshy seeds ; though in the germ there are the rudiments 
of three cells with many seeds in each, 
_ Its immense large, beautiful, smooth, deep green 
leaves, make it conspicuous and desirable in the Flow- 
er Garden. 
This plant has hitherto been blended with Crinum asi- 
aticum, though no two species of liliaceous plants, of the 
Same genus, canbe more strongly marked, not only by 
the size, shape of the leaves, and number, &c. of the flow- 
ers in the umbel, but still more strongly by Toxicaria, 
being caulescent; and the other most perfectly desti- 
tute of every appearance ofa stem. It ought to be com- 
vored with Willdenow’s Crinum bracteatum. | 
10. C. nervosum. Willd. 2. 47. 
Se ae area: poet 2 Spathes many 
