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foot or more long, subterete. Flowers 6-12 to an umbel ; spathe- 

 valves 2-3 in. long; pedicels 1-2 in. Perianth-tube curved, 3-4 in. 

 long ; limb about as long ; segments oblong, acute, f-1 in. broad, 

 usually flushed with red down the back, rarely pure white. 

 Stamens nearly as long as the perianth. Style reaching to its tip. 

 Hab. Universally spread through Cape Colony from the Southern Pro- 

 Yinces to Natal. The most hardy of all the Crinums in England and the only 

 one grown generally out of doors. Var. Farinianum Baker in Gard. Chron. 

 1887, i. 833, collected by M. Farini in the Kalihari Desert, has pink narrowly 

 funnel-shaped flowers, very long leaves, and a bulb with a verv long neck. 



76. C. Macowani Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, 298 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6381. — Bulb globose, sometimes 9-10 in. diam., with a neck 

 6-9 in. long. Leaves 12-15 to a bulb, spreading, lorate, bright 

 green, thin, 2-3 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad. Peduncle stout, green, 

 2-3 ft. long. Flowers 10-15 in an umbel ; spathe-valves very 

 large ; pedicels 1-2 in. long. Perianth with a curved greenish 

 tube 3-4 in. long, and a funnel-shaped limb of about the same 

 length, with oblong acute pinkish segments l-lh in. broad. 

 Stamens declinate, a little shorter than the limb ; anthers linear, 

 ■J in. long. Style as long as the stamens. 



Hab. South-western frontier of Natal, Macowan 2122 ! Described from a 

 plant that flowered at Kew in Jan., 1878. Closely allied to G. latifolium'Lmn. 



11. C. suBMERsuM Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 2463. — Bulb ovoid- 

 oblong, reddish, 3 in. diam. Leaves lorate, acute, pale green ; 

 edge scabrous. Peduncle green, compressed, 1-| ft. long. Flowers 

 about 8 in an umbel, sessile ; spathe-valves 3-4 in. long. Perianth- 

 tube curved, greenish, 5 in. long ; segments oblong, acute, 4 in. 

 long, white, under an inch broad, with a distinct red keel. Stamens 

 and style nearly as long as the segments. 



Hab. Eio Janeiro. Known to me only from the figure and description. 

 It must be very near G. scabrum. Herbert finally regarded it as a hybrid 

 between scabrum and erubescens. 



78. C. LONGiFLORUM Herb. Amaryll 271. Amaryllis longifolia 

 var. longifiora Ker. in Bot. Eeg. t. 303. — Bulb ovoid, 3-4 in. diam., 

 with a distinct neck. Leaves lorate, 4-5 ft. long, 2 in. broad, 

 moderately firm in texture, closely veined, narrowed to the point, 

 not glaucous ; edge slightly scabrous. Flowers 6-8 in an umbel ; 

 pedicels short ; spathe-valves deltoid, 3-4 in. long. Perianth-tube 

 greenish, curved, 3-4 in. long ; limb funnel-shaped, as long as the 

 tube ; segments oblong, acute, connivent, flushed with red in the 

 middle, but without a distinct band. Filaments much shorter 

 than the limb ; anthers linear, ^ in. long. Ovules 6-8 in a cell. 



Hab. According to Grisebach this is native in Jamaicaa and Antigua. If not 

 true native it is perhaps a large variety of G. longifoUum. It was figured in 

 1818, from a plant received by Mr. Grifiin from a garden in Jamaica. 



79. C. viRGiNEUM Mart, in Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 

 855. C. petiolatum var. virgineum Herb. — Bulb large, brown. 

 Leaves lorate, thin, 2-3 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed to an acute apex and to 1 in. above the base ; veins as 

 lax as in gigcmtemn and connected by distinct cross veinlets. 

 Flowers about 6 to an umbel ; pedicels none or very short ; spathe- 



