149. AMARYLLIDACEjE. [3. Crinum. 



straight or somewhat curved, according to the inclination of the scape, tepals soon 

 stellately spreading. The plant does not appear often to set seed, but large 

 greenish bodies, plano-convex or doubly convex, may be found floating about in 

 the water in the cold season wliich are apparently bulbils; they are 1-2-1 -5" 

 diam. and contain a clavate curved " embryo " 'of apparently homogeneous 

 parenchyma with sUghtly green epidermis : the root end breaks through the outer 

 tissues at any point. They are very similar to the seed-like bulbils found in the 

 Spider-lily (g.v.). 



Var. ensifolium Baker. Syn. Crinum ensifolium, Roxb. (and in F.B.I.). 



Baker includes enufolium as a variety of defixum — I think correctly, unless it 

 is merely a form. It only differs by the ensiform leaves tapering gradually from 

 base to apex. Many plants occur in which it is doubtful whether they are refer- 

 able to defixum or ensifolium. 



3. C. latifolium, L. Svn. Amaryllis latifolia, Willd ; Sikiyom-baha, 

 S. 

 A beautiful species flowering before the leaves are fully developed 

 and bearing 8-10 large white inclined or drooping flowers more or 

 less tinged with rose along the centre of the tepals, tube 4-5", lobes 

 erect 3-5" oblanceolate and 1" broad, terminating in a sharp cusp and 

 a curious re flexed villous appendage •2-- 25" long, from the inside of 

 the cusp, very delicate and rose-hyaline. Stamens declinate included, 

 about • 75" long ; anthers white, grey or black, usually curved into a 

 semicircle before dehiscence, linear-oblong. Style i^ink. Fruit 

 2-2-5" diam. with membranous epicarp striate Avith about 25 vertical 

 lines. 



In dry jimgles, though often on the (high) banks of rivers. Singbhum ! Man- 

 bhum, Cmnpbell ! Palamau ! Hazaribagh (Tatijheria jungles) ! Gangpur ! Fls. 

 May-June. The leaves appear in Jmie and die down in the c.s. 



Bulbs globose 5-5-5" diam. with a long stout neck 3-5". Leaves ultimately 

 many, 30"-4 ft. long by 3-1 ■ 5" wide in the middle (whether or not the margins are 

 denticulate in oiu plant as described by Roxburgh for his latifolium I am unfor- 

 tmiately unable to say as leaf-specimens have not been kept and tliis point was 

 not noted. Such denticulate leaves however I have from an up-country specimen 

 which otherwise appeared similar). Scape about 12" by 1" wide, compressed. 

 Spathe-bracts 2, lanceolate, 2-7-3" long, sometimes tinged rose. Floral bracts 

 linear, 3". Tube straight or shghtly curved. Ovary sessile -75". Seeds about 

 12, large, but very variable in the same capsule, angular. 



Roxburgh lays stress on the colour of the anthers, but unless there are 2 species 

 in our area included by me here (which is unlikely), this appears to be of no 

 importance, and a similar conclusion is reached in the case of C. defixum. 



Amaryllis belladonna, L. 



A beautiful plant, often, not always, flowering with the leaves. Flowers zygo- 

 morphic, soft rose-colour shading into wliite witliin, in an umbel with an involucre 

 of 2 spathes. Ovides sunk in the placenta. Capsule 3-quetrous, seeds roundish. 



Nerine spp. Guernsey Lily, 



Usually grown in verandahs. Fls. not very large, in umbels with narrow 

 perianth ; segments recurved. Stamens swollen and connate at the base. Ovary 

 small obJong. 



Clivia nobilis, Lindl. 



Less common. A stout plant flowering with the leaves. Perianth segments 

 and stamens erect, orange red. Native of the Cape. 



Hsemanthus Kalbreyerii. 



A very handsome plant bearing before the leaves develop large globose umbels of 



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