Crinum. hexandria monogynia. 133 



inches broad. Scapes from the exterior axills, solitary, 

 about two feet long, surface smooth, inside flattened, about 

 as thick as a man's thumb. Umbels composed of about 

 forty middliiio^-sized, pure white, long-pedicelled, sweetly 

 fragrant flowers, lube of the corol sub-semicylindric, 

 two and a half inches long ; border of six linear chan- 

 nelled, obtuse, alternately uncinate, recurved segments, 

 which are larj^er than the tube. Filaments scarcely more 

 than half the length of the segments of the border of the 

 corol, ascending towards the point, coloured. Anthers li- 

 near. Germ elevated on pretty long, thick pedicells, and 

 as in the other species, only apparently three-celled, the 

 receptacles being in fact parietal, and only meeting in the 

 centre ; ovula several, in two vertical rows, attached to the 

 double margin of the receptacle. Style above the mouth 

 of the tube, three-cornered, and about as long as the fila- 

 ments, ^fz^ma of minute lobes. 



9. C su'perbum. R. 



Caulescent. Leaves lanceolate, smooth, margined. Um- 

 bel of from twenty to thirty, pedicelled flowers ; tube of 

 the corol equalling the regular border. 



A native of the interior forests of Sumatra from thence 

 sent by Dr. Charles Campbell to the Botanic Garden at 

 Calcutta where it thrives luxuriantly, and blossoms at 

 various periods through the year. This is the largest and 

 by far the most beautiful species of Crinum I have yet 

 met with, and if the fragrance of its numerous large flow- 

 ers is taken into the account, it is probably the most de- 

 sirable of all the liliaceous tribe. 



Root of many fleshy, ranious fibres from the rounded 

 base of the stem, for there is scarcely any ap'pearance of 

 a bulb. Stem short, in six or seven year-old plants from 

 twelve to eighteen inches high, as thick as a man's Ic;;, or 

 more, invested with the withered sheathes of the leaves, 

 from its base and low^er part shoots spring, in such abun- 



