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CRINUM* latifdlium. 

 Broad-leaved Crinurn. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaryllide^. 

 CRINUM. — Suprd, vol. l.fol. 52. 



C. latifolium ; bulbo sphserico, foliis lanceolatis undulatis margine scabris, 

 spatha 10-12-flora, floribus sessilibus : tubo declinato cylindrico obsolete 

 trigone, limbo campanulato horizontali : laciniis lanceolatis subundulatis. 



C. latifolium. Liiin. sp. pi. 1. 419. Ker in journ, of sc. 1817, addend. 



Amaryllis latifolia. L Merit, sert. angl. 14. Willd. sp. pi. 2. 57. Ker in 

 journ. of sc. no. 45 (1817). Spreng. syst. 2. 52. 



Sjovanna-pola-tali. Rheede mulab. 11. 77. t. 39. 



For our figure of this fine and very rare species of Crinura we 

 are indebted to the Right Honourable the Earl of Caernarvon, in 

 whose noble collection at Highclere the drawing was made, as long 

 since as December 1825. 



Mr. Gowen remarks to us, that it is most closely allied to- 

 Crinum speciosum, moluccanum, insigne, &c. It is a shy flowerer, 

 and tender, as are most of its oriental congeners, which are very 

 impatient of drip in the heart of the leaves, and require alternate 

 periods of rest and quick active vegetation. 



This bulb was sent to Lord Caernarvon many years since by 

 Dr. WaUich, who has been so kind as to favour us with the following 

 important extract relating to it from Dr. Roxburgh's MS. Flora 

 Indica : — 



** 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 Amart/l/is lineata, Lamarck Encydop. I. 123, (which I am still 

 inclined to consider a Crinum) ; but on taking up some of the bulbs 



The xg/vav of the Greeks is supposed to have been Lilium candidum. 



