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tacles, which are substantially united to the wall of the 

 germ, and only seemingly so to each other in the centre. 

 C. Zeylanicuni and our other Indian Crinums have exact- 

 ly the same gerin, and all produce large bulbous seeds. 

 Style filiform, declinate, projecting- beyond the stamina. 

 Stigma small, three-toothed. Pericarpium ; berry, as in 

 the plants quoted in the last paragraph, a soft some- 

 what fleshy perishable envelope which covers one, two, 

 or three, rarely more large, fleshy, bulbiforra seeds ; no 

 trace of either partitions or stutures to be found. 



13. C. zeylanicum. sp. pL 321. Syst. veg. Miirr. 318, ^c. 



Bulbs ovate, stemless. Spathes many, from ten to twelve 

 flowered. Flowers sessile, declinate with a long recurved 

 tube, and oblique, campanulate border. ierti;es linear- 

 lanceolate, keeled, much waved, drooping ; margins 

 smooth. 



Beng. Sookh durshun. 



Tulipa Javanica. Rump. Amb. 5. t. 105. 



Amaryllis lineata. Lamarck Eiicycl. 1. 123. 



A, zeylanica. WillcL 2. 56. 



A. ornata. Bot. Mag. 1171. 



Grows wild on low, rich, uncultivated ground, and ge- 

 nerally on the banks of rivers and water courses. Flow- 

 ers first in May, and continues doing so during the rainy 

 season. 



Spathes two-leaved with linear membranaceous brac- 

 tes amongst the flowers. Corol ; tube very long, recurv- 

 ed. Berries and seeds exactly as in the other species. 



Note. When the plant is suffered to remain some years 

 in the same place, it multiplies so much, as to throw the 

 bulbs nearly even with the surface of the earth, and then 

 they appear to have stems, which are formed by the con- 

 centric sheathes of the leaves, as in the more perfect cau- 

 lescent species. 



Crinum giganteum, Andrew's Bot. Rep. 169, has lately 



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