128 HEXA.NDRIA MONOGYNiA. Crinum. 



Leaves sparse, rigidly linear, chanelled, obtuse, jointed ; 

 margins smooth. Umbels from ten to twelve flowered ; 

 flowers subsessile. Style as long as the stamens. 



Beng. Sookh-dursun. 



Belutta pola taly. Rheed. Mai Vol. 11 . t. 38. 



This plant, which I now consider to be Crinum asia^ 

 ticum ofLinnoius, may have been the only asiatic species 

 known to him when he wrote his Flora Zeylanica, grows 

 on the moist muddy or swampy banks of rivers and is in 

 blossom the greater part of the year, and is no doubt 

 Rumph. second species of Radixioxicaria. Herb. Am. 6. p. 

 156. which like ours delights in swampy banks of creeks, 

 &c. where mud abounds. 



J?oo^ bulbous, with a terminal, stoloniferous, fusiform 

 portion issuing from the crown of the bulb, descending 

 deep into the mud or earth ; from the last mentioned por- 

 tion issue the ramous fibrous roots. Stem none. Leaves 

 radical, equally disposed on every side, linear, concave, 

 (so much so that a section forms nearly a perfect semicir- 

 cle,) no keel ; margins smooths ; length from one to three 

 feet, and where broadest little more than three-fourths of 

 an inch. Scapes generally shorter than the longer leaves, 

 a little compressed, smooth, often coloured. Umbels with 

 from six to sixteen flowers. Spatlie two-leaved, with fi- 

 liform bract'es amongst the flowers. Flowers large, white, 

 subsessile, fragrant during the night. Corol ; tube cyXm' 

 dric, from four to six inches long, coloured, or pale-green, 

 according to exposure, smooth. Divisions of the border 

 linear-lanceolate equally disposed; margins waved alittle, 

 a recurved process at the apex of each. Filaments e- 

 qually disposed, ascending, upper half coloured. Anthers 

 linear, incumbent. Germ beneath. Style as long as the 

 stamina, declined. Stigma simiple. ^erri/ membranace- 

 ous, subglobose, containing in one cell, one or two rugose, 

 bulb-like seeds and although the flowers are subsessile, 

 tfee capsules are short-peduncled. 



