136 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Crinum. 
Cepa sylvestris. Rumph. Amb. 6. p. 160. t. 70. f. 1. 
Pancratium amboinense. Willd. 2, 45: 
Introduced from Amboyna into the Company’s Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms in May and June, | : 
but rarely ripens its seeds. : 
Root bulbous, perennial. Leaves radical, petioled, re- 
niform-cordate, many-nerved, entire, smooth on both 
sides ; length and breadth nearly the same, andin healthy 
luxuriant plants about ten or twelve inches each way. 
Petioles smooth, deeply channelled. Scape erect. Spathes 
three, many (from thirty to fifty) flowered. Flowers 
pedicelled, large, pure white, and fragrant. Bractes 
chaffy, intermixed amongst the pedicells of the flowers. 
Corol infundibuliform. Tube slender, straight ; divisi- 
ons of the border shorter than the tube, alternately lan- 
ceolate and cuneiform, Filaments inserted by broad, lo- 
hate, sometimes united, fleshy bases, into the mouth of 
the tube of the corol, rather shorter than its divisions. 
Anthers incumbent. Germ.beneath, three-celled, with 
two seeds in each, attached to the inner angle of the cell. : 
Style rather longer than the stamens. Stigma simple, 
acute. _ Berry asin the other species but smaller, and 
with rarely more than one bulbiform seed, 
Sect. J. Flowers declinate. 
7 U. augustum, R. : ad 
Bulb columnar, mostly above ground. Leaves sparse, 
lanceolate, channelled, smooth-margined. Scapes lateral, 
the length of the leaves ; umbels of from twenty to thirty, 
pedicelled, declinate flowers. ; 
From the Mauritius this magnificent plant has been 
introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it 
blossoms at various times throughout the year, but with 
the greatest luxuriance during the rains; the scapes are 
as thick asa child’s wrist, above three feet long, and of 
a dark, reddish purple colour, the umbels have then about — 
