3 CRI'NUM CAPEN’SE. 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE CRINUM. 
ENDOGENZ, MONOCOTYLEDONE. 
gaznas eleora 
this Plast st 
NATURAL ORDER, AMARYLLIDACEZ. 
EPIG3NOss, {me ‘on 
to which 
morpexsen’” 
wuiey, his Plant at OF LINNEUS. 
No. 39. 
US. Crinum. Linnevs. Groen medio crassius; tubus = te 
es gracilior ; filamenta vix soseighs tabum pariter inserta Fecurvars, 6x1 there 
incumbentes ; dissepimenti ; sem 
ina difforaia, (Folia basi tubulosa) Herperr Amaryllidacea. p, 78. 
SPECIES. Crinum Capense. HERBERT. ioral hartge yes re mar- 
gine seahris loriformibus, pedicellis brevissimis, tubo ¢ elongato, limbo 
garni 
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SPRENGEL eal Plantarain 
IL p. 52. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CriINuM. GERMEN thickest in the 
middle. Tuse cylindrical, more slender than the germen. FrLamenrs 
inserted just outside the tube, more or less recurved. ANTHERS incum- 
bent. Stiama 3-cornered or trifid. Capsu e soft, deformed, without 
valves or furrows. DissepiMeNTs obsolete. Steps very irregular in 
form, size, and number. (Leaves properly tubular at the base.) 
DESCRIPTION OF THE : Species, Crinum Carense. Stem bulbous, 
external | , broad and convolute at the base, 
thong-like, lanceolate, rough at thes margins, laxly reclined at the up- 
per part, glaucous on both surfaces. Supertor Leaves upright,chan- 
nelled their whole length, very narrow. Scape about two feet long, 
straight, roundish or slightly compressed. Umsex few or many-flow- 
ered. Sparuatwo-leaved,lanceolate. Pepicensshort. Ovary glo- 
bose elliptical, devoid of furrows, smooth. PERIANTH white, segments 
tinged with red on the outside. Tose angular or roundish furrowed, 
twice as short as the limb, recurvedly funnel-shaped, segments ellipti- 
co-lanceolate, with a short claw; inner segments broadest. FiLaMENTs 
of the stamens at first dependant but near the middle reflexed and as- 
cending, unequal in length. SryLe as long as the segments of the 
REFERENCE TO THE DissECTIONS. 
2. +, 5 tra Z. 2% 41, 
10 tt nsversely, sk 
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