270 Amaryllidece. [Ctiman. 



Rootstock stout, short or elongate, with copious fleshy 

 root-fibres; 1. sessile, 6-18 by |-i in., linear to lanceolate, 

 acuminate, membranous, 5-veined, tips sometimes rooting or 

 reaching the ground, glabrous or softly sparsely hairy, base 

 sheathing ; scape very short, clavate, with the pedicels, bracts, 

 and ov. hidden amongst the leaf-sheaths, flattened ; raceme 

 subcorymbiform, fl. subdistichous, lowest in the raceme perfect, 

 upper male ; bracts lanceolate, membranous ; perianth pro- 

 duced above the ov. in a filiform, hairy, very slender stipes 

 ^-l in. long, which alone with the per.-scgments appears above 

 ground, segm. |-| in. long, oblong-ovate, acute, dorsally 

 hairy ; stam. small, fil. very short, anth. linear; ov. lanceolate, 

 cells 6-8-ovuled, style short ; fr. oblong, )j in., hypogneous, 

 1-4-seeded, septa spongy ; seeds oblong, testa deeply grooved 

 in wavy lines, black, shining. 



Low country up to 3000 ft., in grassy places; common. Fl. April- 

 July ; bright yellow. 



Also in E. Himalaya, .S. India, Java. 



The long slender beak of the ov. resembles a pedicel or scape, and, 

 the raceme and ov. being concealed in the 1. sheaths, the perianth segm. 

 assume the appearance of a whole flower. 



2. CRINUM, Linn. 

 Herbs, with large coated bulbs ; bulb often produced 

 upwards into a stout, long, or short neck ; roots from the 

 short rootstock, or base of the bulb, numerous, vermiform; 1. 

 numerous, oblong-lanceolate or strap-shaped ; fl. large, um- 

 belled on a stout, solid scape, with membranous bracts ; 

 perianth funnel- or salver-shaped, tube long, lobes 6, narrow; 

 stam. 6, inserted on the throat of the perianth, fil. filiform, 

 free, deflexed or spreading, anth. linear or oblong, dorsifixed; 

 ov. 3-celled, cells fevv-ovuled, style filiform, stigma simple; fr. 

 large, subglobose, pericarp membranous or coriaceous, bursting 

 irregularly; seeds few, large, testa thick, endosperm fleshy. — 

 Sp. about 60; 12-15 in /^/. ^- ^"'^' 



Perianth salver-shaped ; stam. spreading. 



L. 3-5 ft. by 5-8 in i. C. ASIATICUM. 



L. 2-3 ft. by ;j-i^ in 2. C. dkfixum. 



Perianth funnel-shaped; stam. declinate . . . 3. C. zeylanicum. 



I. C. asiatlcum, L. Sp. PI. 292 (1753) (in part). Tolabo, 5. 

 Vichamunkil, 7". 



Herm. Hort. Acad. Lugd.-Bat. 682; Mus. 55. Ikirm. Thes. 142. Fl. 

 Zcyl. n. 127. C. foxicariiim., Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 134; Moon, Cat. 24. 

 Thw. Enum. 324. Baker, Handb. Amaryll. 75. C. P. 2969. 



Fl. 15. Ind. vi. 280. Merm. Hort. Lugd.-Bat. t. 683. Bot. Mag. t. 1073 

 (very good). Wight. Ir. t. 2021-?. 



