Crinum. mexandria monogynia. 135 



Beng. Bura-kanoor. 



Cing. Tolabo. 



I have only found it in gardens; where it is indiji^enous 

 I cannot say, in Ceylon I believe. Floivering time the 

 wet season, though more or less the whole year. 



Sleiii short, but distinct, and stout. Leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolar, very smooth ; mar^iws most entire ; under side ele- 

 gantly striated length-ways with deeper and lighter 

 green; from three to four feet long, and from five to se- 

 ven inches broad. Scapes axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves, smooth, a little compressed, as thick as a man's 

 thumb. Flowers numerous, often fifty, growing in a he- 

 mispherical umbel, white, almost inodorous. Spatlie 

 two-valved, with filiform bractes mixed among the 

 flowers. Stigma small, entire, three-sided. Berries round- 

 ish, the size of a large pigeon's egg, smooth, crowned with 

 the lower part of the remaining tube of the corol, seldom 

 more than one-celled, without any natural opening, and 

 containing one or more large, bulb-like, rugose, firm 

 fleshy seeds ; though in the germ there are the rudiments 

 of three cells with many seeds in each. 



Its immense large, beautiful, smooth, deep green 

 leaves, make it conspicuous and desirable in the Flow- 

 er Garden. 



This plant has hitherto been blended with Crinum asi- 

 aticum, though no two species of liliaceous plants, of the 

 same genus, can be more strongly marked, not only by 

 the size, shape of the leaves, and number, &c. of the flow- 

 ers in the umbel, but still more strongly by Tuxicaria, 

 being caulescent ; and the other most perfectly desti- 

 tute of every appearance of a. stem. It ought to be com- 

 pared with Willdcnow's Crinum hracteatum. 



10. C. nervosum. Willd. 2- 47. i 



Leaves reniform-cordate, many-nerved- Spathes many 

 flowered. 



