of both sorts sent to England, I observed a greater difference in their 

 appearance than can be traced in the parts above ground, though 

 even there their disagreements are sufficiently conspicuous to justify 

 the separation. The following description will be found more com- 

 parative than usual with me, on account of their resemblance ; and 

 no doubt both belong to Criitum, at least to the same genus with our 

 East India Crinums. I do not, therefore, think L'Heritier, and after 

 him Willdenow, have rendered Botany any service by changing the 

 place of C. zeylanicum and latifolium. 



" Root a spherical, tunicated bulb, often 2 feet in circumference, 

 and rather more flattened at the base than at the opposite end ; — in 

 lineatum it is ovate, never so large, and abounds more in cobweb- 

 like fibres. Leaves numerous, radical, disposed equally on all sides, 

 lanceolate, waved, smooth, tapering from within a few inches of the 

 base to rather an obtuse point; margins scabrous, with minute 

 cartilaginous denticules, length from 1 to 3 feet, and from 3 to 5 inches 

 broad ; — in lineatum narrower, ribs much more prominent, length as 

 far as 3 feet, margins greatly more waved, and perfectly smooth : 

 this mark alone is sufficient to distinguish the two plants. Scapes from 

 the axils of the decayed leaves, somewhat compressed, as thick as a 

 man's tlmrab, and from 12 to 24 inches long; — in lineatum longer, 

 and coloured. Umbels with from 10 to 20 flowers; — in lineatum 

 rarely so many. Spathes (in both) two, of an ovate-conic form, with 

 many soft filaments mixed amongst the flowers. Flotvers sessile, 

 large ; tube green ; border pale rose, almost white, faintly fragrant, 

 particularly when they first expand, soon after sunset;— in lineatum 

 they are scarce so large, and the colours much more bright, almost 

 like vdlata. Corolla, tube declinate, cyhndric, obscurely 3-sided, 

 about 4 inches long. Border campanulate, horizontal; segments 

 lanceolate, with rather soft subulate points, length between 3 and 

 4 inches. Fil. Q, shorter than the segments of the border of 

 the corolla, inserted on the mouth of the tube, declinate, with apices 

 sharp, and always erect. ^w^Ae/'s falcate, incumbent, and tremulous, 

 pale yellowish gray; — in lineatum they are brown. Germ inferior, 

 oblong, 3-celled, with several seeds in each, attached in two vertical 

 rows to the two lobes of the thick, fleshy receptacles, which are 

 substantially united to the wall of the germ, and seemingli/ so to 

 each other in the centre ; — C. lineatum and our other Indian Crinums 

 have exactly the same germ, and all produce large bulbous seeds. 

 Stj/le filiform, declinate, and projecting beyond the stamina. Stigma 

 small, 3-toothed. Pericarpium a soft, somewhat fleshy, perishable 

 envelope, which covers one, two, or three, rarely more, large, fleshy, 

 bulbiform seeds; no trace of either partitions or sutures to be 

 found." 



J. L. 



