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i —“Crixom.] AMARYLLIDACEX. 247 
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| C. orchioides, Garin. Fruct. i, 63, t. 13; Roxb.; Fl. Ind. it, 
(144; PF. B. 1. vi, 279 ; Watt B. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 1059 ; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. ii, 748.—Vern.  Musali-kand (Oudh), Mushali (Hind). 
Rootstock tuberous, stout, with many fleshy root-fibres. Leaves mem- 
branous, sessile or stalked, 6-18 in. long, linear or linear-lanceolate 
plicate, glabrous or sparsely and softly hairy, the tips sometimes 
rooting when reaching the ground. Scape very short, clavate, flat- 
tened. the pedicels bracts and ovary hidden by the leaf and sheaths. 
Flowers bright yellow, distichous. Per-segments }-3 in. long, elliptic- 
oblong, acute, hairy on the back. Ovary lanceolate ; cells 6-8-ovuled. 
Berry 4 in. long, hypogeonus. Seeds } in. long ; testa deeply grooved. 
black, shining. 
Abundant in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Pilibhit and N. Oudh, also 
in -Merwara (Duthie, Burkill, ete.). Distrts.: Outer Him. ranges 
from Kumaon eastwards, Khasia Hills, Manipur, south to Bengal. 
W. Ghats, Konkon and Nilgiri Hills extending to Java, China and 
the Philippines. The black root, a kind of musali is ground and 
eaten like flour’at Balrampur in N. Oudh (Burkill). The roots are 
also much used medicinally. 
5. CRINUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 280. 
Herbs with large tunicate bulbs. Leaves long, ensiform or lorate. 
Flowers large, umbellate, sessile or nearly so, with 2 spathe-like 
bracts at the top of a long solid scape ; bracteoles linear. Perianth 
funnel-shaped or almost salver-shaped ; tube long, straight or 
incurved, cylindric or with a wide mouth; lobes 6, recurved or 
spreading or conniving. Stamens 6, adnate to the throat of peri- 
anth-tube ; filaments free. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 2—many in 
each cell; style filiform; stigma small. Fruit a subglobose 
membranous or coriaceous capsule, bursting irregularly. Seeds 
few, large, testa thick; albumen copious. Species about 75, in 
Trop. Asia, Africa, Australia, and America, mostly on sea- 
coasts, and in India often found wild in rocky beds of rivers. 
Perianth-tube straight, erect; lobes stellately 
patent ; stamens spreading :— 
Leaves 5 in. wide or wider; umbels 15-50 
fid. ; per-tube 3-4 in. long, equalling the 
linear lobes; neck of the very large bulb 
4 in. or more across ° ’ . . 1. C. ASTATICUM. 
