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tul plant is a native of Japan, and has been long naturalized in 

 Guernsey. 



The eleventh species has the stature of the Crinum American-urn. 

 The leaves are fleshy, scabrous with a toothleled edge. The spathe 

 bivalve, besides some interior scales or fragments. The germs are 

 sessile. The tube of the corolla of the same colour with the scape, 

 which is rufous. The border white, with lanceolate, recurved pe- 

 tals, with a red keel underneath. The filaments and style are of a 

 blood-red colour, and the pericarps viviparous. 



The twelfth has roots like the Crinum mentioned below: the 

 leaves narrower at their base, and stained with purple on their un- 

 der side; the scapes purple, and growing to the same height as those 

 of the Crinum Asiaticum ; the flowers of the same shape, but the tube 

 purple, and the segments having a purple stripe running through 

 them: the stamina are also purple; it is however more beautiful 

 than that plant. This is a native of the East Indies. 



Culture. In all the different sorts, the propagation is performed 

 by the small bulbs or offsets that are removed from the sides of the 

 old roots every year at the time they are transplanted. Some of the 

 sorts, as the first and second, are often capable of being raised on dry 

 warm borders; but most of the others stand in need of artificial heat 

 to raise them in the most perfect manner. 



They all delight in a loose, sandy, dry soil, that contains a good 

 proportion of vegetable mould; and require but little water, except 

 where the roots are in a high state of growth, and sending forth their 

 flower-stems; when they should have it frequently in small quantities. 

 When applied under other circumstances, it is apt to rot and destroy 

 the bulbs. 



All the more tender sorts should be put in pots, and placed in 

 stoves, where they must be constantly kept; as much air as possible 

 being admitted to them during the hot summer months. Some of 

 them are, however, capable of bearing the open air at this season: 

 but in this method of management they neither grow so well, or 

 flower so regularly, as in the stove mode of treatment. 



