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4. AM ADA, Roxb". Fl Ind. i, p 33. Tubers palmate, inwardly 

 pale-yellow; leaves long-petioled ; broad, lanceolate, smooth spikes; 

 central about 6 inches high, cylindric, crowned with a tuft of pale 

 rosy abortive bracts ; flowers rather small, yellow. The Concans 

 and Gujarat, Nimmo. 



5. PSEUDO-MONTANA, Grah. in Cat. Bomb. PI. p 210. 

 Tubers of the root round, size of small potatoes, white inside ; 

 leaves, including the petiole, 2 to 3 feet long, tapering at both 

 ends, 6 to 1 8 inches broad ; scape central ; coma of a beautiful dark 

 rose-colour, waved ; flowers yellow, of about equal length ; flowers 

 in September. The Concans. 



6. CAULINA, Graham loc. cit. Root with large oblong tubers, 

 white inside; radical leaves short-petioled, 12 to 20 inches long; 

 scape central, leafy, 3 feet high ; upper leaves on the stem alternate, 

 frequently tinged with a beautiful red ; coma white ; bracts green, 

 large, loose, oval ; flowers yellow, longer than the bracts. Table- 

 land of Mahableshwur. 



CXLVI. AMARYLLIDACE.E. 



1. CRINUM, Linn. 



1. C ROXBURGHII, Dalz. Root bulbous, with a fusiform crown ; 

 stem none ; leaves radical, linear concave, without a keel ; margins 

 smooth, 1 to 3 feet long, three-quarters of an inch broad ; scapes 

 about the length of the leaves, a little compressed, smooth ; spathe 

 2-leaved, with filiform bracts among the flowers ; flowers large, 

 white, subsessile ; corol-tube 4 to 6 inches long ; berry sub- 

 globose. Common on the banks of the Deccan rivers ; flowering 

 in October. Syn. C asiaticum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, p 127 ; non Willd. 



2. C ASIATICUM, Linn. sp. 4 1 9. Caulescent or stemless ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, very smooth ; margins entire, striated 

 beneath, 3 to 4 feet long and 5 to 7 inches broad ; scapes axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves, a little compressed ; flowers numerous, 

 12 to 50 in an umbel, white, almost inodorous; berries roundish, 

 the size of a pigeon's egg. The Concans. The leaves are said 

 to be equal as an emetic to the best Ipecacuanha. Syn. C toxica- 

 rium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 1 34 ; C brevifolium, Roxb. loc. cit ; Bot. 

 Mag. t 1073, 2121, 2231, 2908; Bot. Reg. t. 179. Native name 

 "Nagdaun." 



3. C AUGUSTUM, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 136. Bulb columnar, 

 mostly above ground ; leaves lanceolate, channelled, linearly taper- 

 ing, 3 to 5 feet long, and 3 to 4 inches broad ; scapes lateral, from 

 the axils of the outermost leaves, and nearly as long ; umbels com- 

 posed of 30 to 40 pedicelled flowers, white or rosy, and fragrant ; 



