Doryanthes.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEX. 453 
or white inside below the middle, about 2 in. long, spreading from near 
the base. Filaments thicker at the base than in D. eacelsa, and as well 
as the anthers much shorter than in that species. 
Queensland. Mount Spicer near Cunningham Gap, W. Hill; Mackenzie river, 
Hartmann.—The above character is taken chiefly from W. Hill's description, and the 
drawings made by Miss Scott, from the specimen exhibited at Brisbane in 1870, con- 
firmed by specimens of portions of the inflorescence. 
TRIBE 5. EvaMARYLLIDEx.—Bulbous plants with horizontally flat 
channelled or terete radical leaves. Scapes leafless. Flowers in umbels 
or rarely solitary, surrounded by 2.or more membranous or coloured 
bracts. Perianth glabrous, often large. Stigma sm 
11. CRINUM, Linn. 
Perianth deciduous, slightly oblique, with a slender tube and 6 nearly 
equal lanceolate or oblong 7: tamens 6, inserted at the base of the 
lobes; filaments nen dilated at the base ; anthers linear or oblong, 
Australian species examined) in each cell, in 2 rows, bordering a nar- 
row peltate placenta. Capsule often oblique opening irregularly, 
th few rather large seeds.—Bulbous herbs usually’ tal eaves all 
mostly white, in a terminal umbel surrounded by a few membranous or 
slightly coloured bracts. : 
_ The genus extends over tropical and southern Africa and Asia. Of the five Austra- 
lian species, one appears to be the same as a common Asiatic one, the four. others are 
probably endemic, 
Flowers sessile in the umbel or on pedicels shorter than the 
ovary. : 
Filaments not } as long as the perianth-lobes. Umbels few- 
d ed e sie Li. ok U, Sees 
flowered. Ovary usually beaked. . . 
Filaments more than 3 as long as the lobes :4 ob. 
Umbels many-flo Ovary usually beaked . . . . 2. C.asiaticum. 
Umbels 1- or 2-flowered. Ovary not beaked . . . . . 3. C. uniflorum. 
Flowers on pedicels usually longer than the ovary, which is not 
ake 
Perianth-lobes about 3 in. long and $ to 1 in. broad . . . 4. C. flaccidum. 
Perianth-lobes 2 to 24 in. long and 3 to õ lines broad . . . 5. C. pedunculatum. 
enosum, R. Br. Prod. 297. Bulb and leaves not described, 
Umbel of 6 to 8 
serv any of the specimens seen. j 
flowers with 2 involucral bracts 24 to 3j in Flowers sessile or 
here and there very shortly pedicellate, the ovary tapering at the top 
