134 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Criuiim. 



dance as to render it readily multiplied. Leaves sparse, 

 sheathing, lanceolate, straight and smooth, margins also 

 smooth ; points blunt, deeply concave on the upper sur- 

 face ; held between the eye and the light they are beau- 

 tifully striated with numerous, simple, straight, longitudi- 

 nal lines, and between these, tessellated with transverse, 

 green veins; from three to six feet long, and from three to 

 six inches broad about the middle, which is the broadest 

 part. Scape from the stem immediately below the leaves 

 about three or four feet long, much compressed, particu- 

 larly on the inside, and about as thick as a man's 

 thumb. Umbel from twenty to thirty-flowered. Involu- 

 cre of two large, long, cordate, reflexed, coloured exterior 

 leaves ; with numerous filaments mixed among the flow- 

 ers. Flowers very large, pedicelled, rose-coloured, de- 

 lightfully fragrant ; tube obscurely three-sided, about five 

 or six inches long, deeply coloured ; segments of the bor- 

 der equally disposed, linear-lanceolate,revolute,as long as, 

 or longer than the tube, deep rose colour on the outside, 

 pale pinii. within, apices alternately uncinate. Germ in- 

 ferior, oblong, three-celled, with a few ovula in each, at- 

 tached to a fleshy receptacle, which appear to originate 

 in the centre, from the axis, but their real insertion is in- 

 to the walls of the Germ. Style declinate, the length of 

 the deeply coloured, equally incurved, slender filaments. 

 Stigma small, perforated, and obscurely three-lobed. 



The ripe seed vessel has not yet been found ; they 

 have continued abortive in Bengal. 



9. C. foxicarium. R. 



Caulescent. Leaves sparse, lanceolar. Flowers pedi- 

 celled, numerous, even as far as sixty in a hemispheric 

 umbel. Capsules with one or more bulbiform seeds. 



Crinum asiaticum. Bot. Mag. N. 1073, has the exact 

 leaf of this species. 



Radix toxicaria. RumpJi. Amb. 6. var.lst.p. 155. t. 69. 



