Crinum. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 137 
_ thirty sweetly fragrant, rosy flowers, on pedicells from 
one to two inches long; and coloured like the scape; 
tube of the corol from four to five inches long, colour a 
lighter purple; segments of the border lanceolar, six inches 
long’; filaments and style purpie, declinate, with the in- 
cumbent anthers yellow. This is the only species 
known to me with any thing like a stem, and declinate 
flowers, nor can I reconcile it with any one cf the many 
species of Crinum or Amaryllis hitherto described in any 
book that I have met with. | 
12. C, latifolium. Sp. pl. 419. 
Bulb spherical, stemless. Spathes many, from ten to 
twenty-flowered. Flowers sessile, declinate, with an ob. 
liquely campanulate border, Leaves lanceolate, margins 
scabrous. _ 3 
_Amaryllis latifolia, Willd. 2. 57. 
Sjovanna-pola-tali. Rheed. Mal. 11. t. 39. 
Amaryllis ornata. Bot, Mag. N. 923, agrees so well 
with this as to induce me to think they are the same, or 
only varieties of one species. 
A native of Bengal where it begins to blossom with 
the first showers in April, and continues to do so during 
the early part of the rainy season. s 
I long considered this most stately plant, a variety of 
C. Zeylanicum, but on taking up some of the bulbs of 
both sorts to send to England, I observed a greater 
difference in their appearance, than can be traced in 
the parts above ground, though even their disagree- 
ments are sufficiently conspicuous to justify the separa- 
tion. The following description will be found more com- 
parative than usual with me, on account of their resem- 
blance and no doubt both belong to Crinum, at least to 
_ the same genus, with our East India Crina. I do not a 
therefore think L, Heritier, and after him Wil 
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