CRINUM 



THE ]iULB liOOK 



CKINUM 



teum, Laving roundish bulbs li lu 

 2 ins. in diameter, and thinnisb, 

 obLmceolate-acute leaves about 1 ft. 

 long, and U to 2 ins. broad at the 

 middle. The green, slender, com- 

 ]iressed peduncle is usually about 

 1 ft. high, but is occasionally alisent 

 or much shorter, and only carries 

 two or three pure white flowers 

 having a slender curved tube and 

 oblong spoon-shaped segments {Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6483). There is a finer 

 form called magnificum. 



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Fiu. 103.— Crinum pendunculalum. (J.) 



C. Povp-elli (C Lesemanni). — This 

 is a fine hyl)rid between C. longijolinm 

 and 6'. Moorei^ both natives of S. 

 Africa. It has roundish, short-necked 

 bull)S, and bright green, pointed, 

 sword-shaped leaves 3 to 4 ft. long 

 and 3 to 4 ins. broad. About eight 

 large flowers are borne on a flattened 

 grey-green peduncle about 2 ft. high, 

 the oblong, lance-shaped, acute seg- 

 ments being tinted with red down 



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the centre. There is a pure white 

 flowered variety called alhum, and a 

 deeper coloured red one c;illed 

 ruhmm. 



C. Pov'eUi and its varieties require 

 the same treatment as C. longifoHum. 



C pratense. — A native of the East 

 Indian plains, with ovoid bulbs 4 to 

 5 ins. through, and narrow leaves li 

 to 2 ft. long. Flowers white, with 

 greenish tube 3 to 4 ins. long, and 

 bright red filaments. The variety 

 lorifolium has weak decumbent leaves 

 4 to 5 ft. long; elegans has long- 

 necked bulbs {Bot. Mag. t. 2592); 

 and venusfitm has as many as thirty 

 flowers in an umbel. 



C. purpuras c en s. — An ai^uatic 

 species from the lakes and streams 

 of Guinea and Fernando Po (west 

 Tropical Africa). The short-necked, 

 ovoid bulbs, about 2 ins. in diameter, 

 produce numerous runners or stolons, 

 and are furnished with very wavy 

 leaves 1 to 3 ft. long, about 1 in. 

 l)road, and thin in texture. The 

 slender peduncle is a foot or less 

 high, with five to nine flowers, white 

 tinged with red on the outside, and 

 having bright red filaments. (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6525.) 



C. rhodanthum — A native of 

 Bechuanaland, with strap-shaped 

 leaves a foot long and li to 2 ins. 

 wide, and several red flowers on the 

 .scape (G'ard. Chron. 1900, xxviii. 

 142). 



C Samueli. — A species from Central 

 Africa, with bulbs about 3 ins. through, 

 leaves 4 ft long and 2i ins. broad, 

 rough on the edges, and odourless 

 white flowers faintly flushed with 

 pink {(J<ird. Chron. 1902, xxxii. 304). 



0. Sanderianum (C*. ornatiim, 

 Bury).---A native of Sierra Leone, 

 nearly allied to C. srahrum. The 

 roundish bulbs are 2 to 3 ins. in 

 diameter, with necks 2 to 3 ins. long, 

 and thin sword-like leaves, l| to 2 ft. 



