466 AMARYLLIDE^. 



Microscopic stmctiire, — The central portion of the bulb (stolo- 

 niferous fusiform portion) consists of a parenchyma made up 

 of polyhedral cells containing a little granular matter and some 

 needle-shaped crystals ; it is traversed by numerous bundles of 

 jointed and spiral vessels ; surrounding the central portion is a 

 solid cortical layer less vascular than the central column ; from 

 both of these spring the subterraneous white bases of the leaves 

 which form the upper part of the bulb. 



Crinum zeylanicum, Linn., Wiglit Ic, 2019—20; 



Wiecde, HoH. Mai, m., f. 39 ; BoL Mag., 1171, 2217, 2292, and 

 2466, h a very variable plant, plentiful in most parts of India. 

 It is tlie Tullpa javanica of Eumpbius. Eheede states that the 

 crushed and toasted bulb is applied to piles and abscesses to 

 cause suppuration, and that if given to dogs it causes their teeth 

 to fall out. According to Loureiro, it has the properties of squills. 

 In the Concan a slice of the bulb is used for blistering cattle, and 

 the roasted bulb is used as a rubefacient in rheumatism. The 

 plant is called Sukhdarshan in Bengal and Hindustan, and 

 Gadanikand or Gadtimbhikanda in Marathi. It has not been 

 identified with any of the plants mentioned by Sanskrit writers. 

 Its properties are similar to those of (7. asiaticum. 



Description. — Root a spherical^ tunicated bulb; leaves 



numerous, radical, lanceolate, waved, smooth, tapering slowly 



from within a few inches of the base to rather a broad and 



obtuse point ; margins scabrous with minute cartilaginous teeth, 



length 1 to 3 feet ; scapes from the axils of the decayed leaves, 



Bomewhat compressed, 1 to 2 feet long ; umbels with about 10 



flowers ; spathes two, of an ovate conic form, with many soft 



filaments among the flowers; flowers sessile, large, tube green, 



border very pale rose, almost white, faintly fragrant ; corol 



tube declinate, cylindric, obscurely 3-sided, about 4 inches long; 



border campanulate, horizontal, segments lanceolar, with rather 



soft subulate points ; length 3 to 4 inches ; filaments six, inserted 



in the mouth of the tube, declinate ; apices sharp and always 



erect ; anthers falcate, incumbent and tremulous, pale yellowish- 



grey ; germ inferior, oblong, 3-celled with several ovula in each. 



