1060 BENGAL PLANTS. [Zephyranthes. 
2189, ZEPHYRANTHES TUBISPATHA Herb. ; F. B. I. vi. 277. 
In many of the provinces, in eatin ie sometimes 
alised, 
natur 
A bulbous herb ; native of Peru. 
955. Crinum Linn. 
Herbs, sometimes large, with tunicate bulbs ; leaves ba ensi- 
form or lorate. Flowers large, umbellate, sessile or short-p 
celled, tela 2 ere bracts at the top of a long, solid scape ; 
bracte linear. Perianth funnel-shaped or almost salver- 
sha a "bs inl, stesight or incurved, cylindric or with 
enlarged mouth; lobes 6, linear-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 
recurved or ee soding or conniving. amens 6, adnate to throat 
of perianth ; filaments free, filiform, declinate or diverging ; 
anthers oe or at eee dosaitleed, Carpels 8, connate in 
a 3-celled ovary; ovules in each loculus few or many, sometimes 
only 2; style filiform ; stigma very small, subcapitate. Fruit an 
irregularly subglobose, membranous or coriaceous capsule, bursting 
irregularly. Seeds few, large, rounded, with a thick testa and very 
copious albumen. 
lap tube straight, erect; lobes stellately patent; stamens spread- 
ve aa 5 in. wide or wider; umbels 15-50-flowered ; perianth-tube 
3-4 in. long, equalling the linear lobes; neck of the very large bulb 
4 in. or more across ..asiaticum. 
Leaves 2 in. wide or less; umbels 6-12-flowered; neck of the bulb 
2°5 in. or less across 
Bulb with a etal stoloniferous base ; perianth-tube 
long, equalling the linear lobes, which considerably sane the 
stamens . defizum 
Bulb not stoloniferous ; Beare tube 3-5-4 in. long ; alice iigecs 
late, about as long as the stam 
is acuminate ; asa ae 2-3 in. long, shorter than the 
tube amenum. 
Leaves obtuse or subacute ; perianth-lobes 3-5-4 in. long, about 2s 
long as the tube .. pratense. 
Perianth-tube curved, declinate; lobes ascending ; stamens decli- 
nate :— 
*Leaves 3-5 in. wide, obtuse, margin scabrous, hardly waved; perian' 
lobes oblong, almost white ; anthers grey [p. 1061].........+ latifolium. 
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