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Note. I suspect that two or more, very distinct spe- 

 cies have hitherto been included under one specific name ; 

 which I have now assigned to the above described, by 

 far the smallest of the two, and no doubt Van Rheede's 

 Beluta pola tali. The other, Rumphius's first species 

 oi Radix Toxicaria, which is the one he has figured, and 

 now called by me Crinum Toxicarium, was, I believe, con- 

 sidered by Konig to be C latifolium of Linn, and was for- 

 merly described and figured by me as such. 



3. C. ensifolium. R. 



Bulb ovate. Leaves sparse, straight, ensiform. 



A native of Pegu from thence introduced by Dr. W". 

 Carey into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta but has not yet 

 blossomed there. In habit it most resembles Asiaticum 

 but difiers from that species in the shape of the bulb. 

 The leaves also difier, for here they are less channelled, 

 taper more toward the apex which is much shorter ; other 

 difierences will, no doubt, be found when the flowers ap, 

 pear. 



4. C. brevifolium. R. 



Bulb stemless. Leaves rigid, straight, lanceolate, broad, 

 obtuse-pointed, waved, margins smooth. Umbels from 

 ten to twelve flowered \ flowers regular, short-pedicelled. 

 Segments of the border equalling the trigonal tube- 



This elegant, rather small, very well marked species, 

 has been introduced from the Mauritius into the Botanic 

 Garden at Calcutta where it blossoms during the hot and 

 rainy season. 



Leaves six or eight from each bulb, sparse, straight, 

 spreading a little, lanceolar, broad, obtuse, pointed, mar- 

 gins smooth, from twelve to eighteen inches long, and 

 two and a half or three inches broad. Scapes from 

 the axills of the old withered leaves, much compress^ 

 ed, about twelve inches high. Lwolucre two-leaved, 

 from ten to twelve flowered. Flowers large, white and 



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