CRINUM 



THE BULB BOOK 



CRINUM 



teum, having roundish bulbs l to 

 2 ins. in diameter, and thinnish, 

 oblanceolate-acute leaves about 1 ft. 

 long, and H to 2 ins. broad at the 

 middle. The green, slender, com- 

 pressed peduncle is usually about 

 1 ft. high, but is occasionally absent 

 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. 



Fio. lQ3.Crinumpendvnculatum. (J.) 



C. Powell! (C. Lesemanni).This 

 is a fine hybrid between C. longifolium 

 and C. Moorei, both natives of S. 

 Africa. It has roundish, short-necked 

 bulbs, 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 



the centre. There is a pure white 

 flowered variety called album, and a 

 deeper coloured red one called 

 rubrum. 



C. Poivelli and its varieties require 

 the same treatment as C. longifolium,. 



C. pratense. A native of the East 

 Indian plains, with ovoid bulbs 4 to 

 5 ins. through, and narrow leaves 1^ 

 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 venustum has as many as thirty 

 flowers in an umbel. 



C. pur pur as c ens. An aquatic 

 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. 

 broad, 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 H to 2 ins. 

 wide, and several red flowers on the 

 scape (Gard. Chron. 1900, xxviii. 

 142). 



O. Samueli. A species from Central 

 Africa, with bulbs about 3 ins. through, 

 leaves 4 ft long and 2j ins. broad, 

 rough on the edges, and odourless 

 white flowers faintly flushed with 

 pink (Gard. Chron. 1902, xxxii 304). 



C. Sanderianum (C. ornatum, 

 Bury). A native of Sierra Leone, 

 nearly allied to C. scabrum. The 

 roundish bulbs are 2 to 3 ins. in 

 diameter, with necks 2 to 3 ins. long, 

 and thin sword-like leaves, H to 2 ft. 



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