Crinum. hexandria monogynia. 137 



thirty sweetly fragrant, rosy flowers, on pedicells from 

 one to two inches long ; and coloured like the scape ; 

 tube of the corol from four to five inches long, colour a 

 lighter purple; segments of the border lanceolar, six inches 

 long ; filaments and style purple, declinate, with the in- 

 cumbent anthers yellow. This is the only species 

 known to me with any thing like a stem, and declinate 

 flowers, nor can I reconcile it with any one of the many 

 species of Crinum or Amaryllis hitherto described in any 

 book that I have met with. 



12. C. latifoUum. Sp. pi 419. 



Bulb spherical, stemless. Spathes many, from ten to 

 twenty-flowered. Flowers sessile, declinate, with an ob. 

 liquely campanulate border. Leaves lanceolate, margins 

 scabrous. 



Amaryllis latifolia, Willd. 2. 57. 



Sjovanna-pola-tali. Rheed. Mai. 11. t. 39. 



Amaryllis ornata. Bot. Mag. N. 923, agrees so well 

 with this as to induce me to think they are the same, or 

 only varieties of one species. 



A native of Bengal where it begins to blossom with 

 the first showers in April, and continues to do so during 

 the early part of the rainy season. 



I long considered this most stately plant, a variety of 

 C. Zexjlanicum, but on taking up some of the bulbs of 

 both sorts to send to England, I observed a greater 

 diflerence in their appearance, than can be traced iH 

 the parts above ground, though even their disagree- 

 ments are sufiiciently conspicuous to justify the separa- 

 tion. The following description will be found more com- 

 parative than usual with me, on account of their resem- 

 blance and no doubt both belong to Crinum, at least to 

 the same genus, with our East India Crina. I do not 

 therefore think L. Heritier, and after him Willdenow, 



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