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a rule are not quite so long as the leaf blade, but ma}^ also 

 exceed them in length. 



4:". A rhizome which fasciates. The specimen, kindly sent by 

 Mr. W. J. D. VAN Andel, Soekaboemi, Java, has a width of 

 more than one dM. at top and is strongly flattened. 



AMAEYLLIDACEAE. 



Crinum giganteum Andr. et aliae species. 



Habitat South Africa. 



Coll. August 1895, December 1898. 



1°. Crinum sp. One large sepal, (fig. 13) below the two others 

 disengaging itself from the tube, with its left edge only, just 

 projects with both margins over the adjoining sepals. A petal 

 is placed opposite the left half of this sepal (fig. 14) and in 

 opposition to this petal we find two coalescing stamens (fig. 15), 

 which are partly petaloid. There is nothing opposite the right 

 half of the sepal in question. Consequently a petal and a stamen 

 are wanting ; whether the latter is antipetalous or antisepalous, 

 cannot be decided. The style bears a white longitudinal wing. 

 The other parts of the flower are normal. 



2°. Or. giganteum. In the first two flowers of an inflorescence 

 the styles were abnormal. 



a) Style open, but longitudinally rolled up so as to form a 

 cylinder of a diameter of 2 mM.; near the top the rolling up 

 is incomplete, the top itself is falcate (fig. 16). The style 

 extends only 16 mM. beyond the entrance of the flower against 

 80 mM. in the normal flower. Apart from the falcate end the 

 style is at top laid open though the margins are somewhat 

 bent inward. 



h) In the main like the first, in this however the style is 

 broken off at a distance of 18 J mM. from the base, while 

 the upper part having a length of 54 mM. has been carried 

 along by the growing tube, the latter being too narrow for the 

 upper part to pass through it; also this portion is rolled up 

 and furnished with two internal ridges, one of them bearing 



