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CRINUM variabile, var. rosciim. 

 Rose-coloured changeable Crinum. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaryllidace^. 

 CRINUM. Herbert. Jmaryll. ;j. 242. 



C. variabile ; foliis Isete viridibus erecto-arcuatis crassis, floribus subsessilibus 

 ortu albis rubro pallide extus notatis dein saturate I'ubris campanulato- 

 infundibularibus apice revolutis. 



C. variabile, Herbert, I. c. 268. 



Amaryllis variabilis, Jacq. h. Schoenb. A. 426. 



Amaryllis revoluta /3. Supra, vol. S.fol. 615. 



This beautiful bulb flowered in April last with J. H. 

 Slater, Esq. of Newick Park, near Uckfield. Its leaves are 

 very long, and its gay rosy flowers most agreeably scented. 



Upon shewing the drawing to the Dean of Manchester, 

 the learned investigator of this difficult genus, he suggested 

 the probability of its being either a variety of Crinum varia- 

 bile, or a mule from C. capense, of which the Gardens now 

 contain so many. A reference to the published figures of 

 the former induces us to regard it as one of its varieties, 

 with which it agrees in its bright green very long leaves, and 

 comparatively short scape. 



We borrow from Mr. Herbert's work the following memo- 

 randum concerning C. variabile. *' This is the hardiest 

 known species ; out of doors it preserves its leaves in winter 

 longer than Capense, and it shoots earlier in the spring. 

 Both this plant and revolutum have a slender germen, but 

 the idea conceived from Jacquin's plate by some persons, of 

 its cells being monospermous was erroneous. It leaves are 

 deep green. The flowers turn to a rich purplish red, so that 



