138 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Crinum, 
have rendered Botany any service by changing the place 
of C. Zeylanicum and latifolium. 
Root a spherical, tunicated bulb, often two feet in cir- 
cumference and rather more flattened at the base, than — 
on the opposite end. In C. Zeylanicum it is ovate, never 
solarge and abounds more in cobweb-like fibres. Leaves 
numerous, radical, disposed equally on all sides, lanceo- 
late, waved, smooth, tapering slowly from within a few 
inches of the base to rather a broad and obtuse point; 
margins scabrous, with minute, cartilaginous denticuli, 
length from one to three feet, and from three to five in- 
ches broad ; in Zeylanicum, they are much narrower, the 
rib much more prominent, the length as much as three feet, 
the margins much more waved, and perfectly smooth; this — 
mark alone is sufficient to distinguish the two plants. 
Scapes from the axills of the decayed leaves, somewhat 
compressed, as thick as a man’s thumb and from twelye 
to twenty-four inches long ; in Zeylanicum it is longer, and 
coloured. Umbels with from ten to twenty flowers ; in Zey- 
lanicum rarely so many ; spathes (in both) two, ofan ovate, 
conic form, with many soft filaments mixed amongst the 
flowers. Flowers sessile, large, tube green ; border very 
~ palerose, almost white, faintly fragrant, particularly when 
they first expand soon after sunset. In Zeylanicum they 
arescarcely so large, and the colours aremuch more bright, 
almost like Amaryllis vittata. Corol ; tube declinate, cy- r 
lindric,obscurely three-sided, about four inches long. Bor- 
der campanulate, horizontal ; segments lanceolar, with ra= — 
ther soft, subulate points; length between three and — 
four inches. Filaments six, shorter than the segments of 
the border of the corol, inserted on the mouth of the tube, 
declinate, with apices sharp, and always erect. Anthers — 
falcate, incumbent and tremulous, pale yellowish grey. — 
In Zeylanicum they are brown. Germ inferior, oblong, 
three-celled, with several ovula in each, attached in two — 
vertical rows, to the two lobes of the thick fleshy recep- 
