284 CLII. AMARYLLIDE-ZE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Crinum. 



yellowish grey. C. zeylanicum, Linn. (Am. ornata, Sot. Nag. t. 1171. A. lineata, 

 LamTc.), bulb smaller ovoid abounding more with cobweb-like fibres, leaves much 

 narrower linear-lanceolate keeled, midrib much more prominent, margins much more 

 waved perfectly smooth, scape longer 10-12-fld., flowers smaller colours very bright, 

 anthers brown. 



Sect. IV. BRACHYNEMA. Perianth nodding, funnel-shaped, lobes 

 oblong. Stamens erect, filaments shorter than the anthers . 



12. C. brachynema, Herb, in Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 36; leaves 

 1^-2 ft. by 3-4 in. broadly lorate margins smooth, scape 12 in., umbels 

 15-20-fld., spathes lanceolate, flowers pedicelled, perianth-tube 1| 2 in., 

 lobes 2 by | in. many times longer than the stamens. Bot. Mag. t. 5937; 

 Flore des Serres. t. 2303; Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 88. 



The CONCAN ; Woodrow, Stocks. 



Bulb as large as the fist, ovoid, neck very short. Leaves produced long after 

 flowering, concave, not keeled. Scape 8-12 in. ; spathes greenish. Flowers fragrant, 

 white j anthers yellow ; style short, included in the tube. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



C. BREVIFOLIUM, var. a, Hort. Beng. ; C. bracteaium, Bot. Reg. t. 179 ; Herb, 

 in Bot. Mag. under t. 2121, f. 4. " From Sundeep near Chittagong." Roxburgh's 

 C. brevifolium (Fl. Ind. ii. 129, introduced into the Calcutta Gardens from the 

 Mauritius) is a native of the Seychelles according to Baker, and referable to C. 

 bracteatum, Willd., and to asiaticum, var. bracteatum, Herb., it is a Stenaster with 

 lorate leaves 1-1 ft. by 3-4 in. broad with crisped margins, scape much compressed 

 10-20-fld., perianth-tube slender 2|-3 in., lobes white; cells of ovary 1-ovuled. 

 Specimens of any Sundeep Crinum should be procured for the determination of this 

 plant. 



C. CA.NALIFOLIUM, Herb, in Bot. Mag. under t. 2121 ; Amaryllid. 258 (C. 

 canaliculatum, Carey, non Hoxb.), is altogether doubtful. (See under 10 pratense.) 



C. ERYTHROPHYLLTJM, Carey mss. ex Herb, in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2121 ; Amaryllid. 

 259), from Rangoon, with deep blood-red leaves, is mentioned by Herbert as having 

 been cultivated in Calcutta by Carey, but lost before flowering. 



C. MACROCARPUM, Carey mss. ex Herb, in Sot. Mag. I. c., from Rangoon, is 

 doubtfully referred by Herbert and Baker (Handb. of Amaryllid. 75) to C.sumatranum, 

 Roxb. (Bot. Reg. t. 1049), a species of sect. Stenaster, with long narrow rigid leaves, 

 the fruit as large as a main's fist, and seeds 2 in. broad. 



C. (Stenaster) PEDUNCULATUM, Br. Prodr. 297; Bot. Reg. t. 52 ; Bury Hexand. 

 Pl.t. ii. ; Herb. Amaryllid. 246; Baker Handb. of Amaryllid. 77. This Austra- 

 lian species probably occurs in the Malay Islands and Peninsula. A leafless Crinum 

 from Fenang (Curtis, No. 1274) and Wallich's C. asiaticum, 8969 D, from Finlayson 

 (Siam ?) strongly resemble it. It differs from C. asiaticum only in the long 

 pedicelled flowers, and according to the Bot. Reg. in the elongated rootstock. 

 Bentham (PI. Austral, vi. 455) doubts the Bot. Reg. plant being the true peduncu- 

 latum, and suspects that the true is only C. asiaticum (as do I). 



C. (Platyaster) STRICTUM, Herb, in Bot. Mag. I. c. an/1 t. 2365 ; Amaryllid. 

 253, 401 ; Baker I. c. 86 (C. Herbertianum, Scliult. Sy*t. vii. 871) ; bulb small 

 ovoid, leaves 12 by 2-2| in. suberect lorate obtuse margins smooth, scape twice as 

 long as the leaves, umbels about 4-fld., spathes 3-4 in., perianth-tube about 5 in. 

 green, lobes 3-4 by in. white an inch longer than the red filaments.- Ceylon, 

 Hort. Herbert. Baker considers it to be allied to the American P laty aster s ; it 

 may therefore have been imported into Ceylon. 



C. UMBELLATTJM, Carey ex Serb, in Bot. Mag. I. c. Of this Herbert says 

 that it is perhaps a small var. of C. brevifolium. 



