| PLATE CLXIX, Pag. 
CRINUM GIGANTEUM. 
| Gigantic A/phodel-Lily. 
CLASS VI. ORDER 1. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Corotra fupra, infundibuliformis, fexpartita, BLossom above, funnel -fhaped, fix-parted, equal; 
xqualis; filamenta tubi fauci inferta ; fe- threads inferted into the mouth of the tube ; 
mina ad bafin corollarum, vivipara. feeds at the bafe of the bloffoms, viviparous. 
See Crinum spirate, Pl. XCII. Vol, I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Crinum foliis flaccidis, undulatis 3. floribus fefti- 
_ dibus, umbellatis ; petalis concayis, fub- 
alt . li . 
Afphodel-Lily with flaccid, waved leaves; flow- 
ers fitting clofe to the flower ftem in um- 
bels; petals concave, nearly white. 
Se 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
: 1. A miniature reprefentation of the whole plant. 
2. A Petal with its chive. 
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. 
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Tue coatt of Africa bordering on our fettlement at Sierra Leone, has furnifhed us with a number of 
beautiful plants; but none more fo, than thofe of the natural order of Lily; witnefs our prefent 
figure, which was taken from a plant in the Hammerfmith collection, in the month of Auguft 1800. 
The bulbs of this grand {pecies of Crinum, were received by her Ladyfhip, the Right Honourable the 
Marchionefs of Rockingham, about the year 1792, from Sierra Leone ; they may be confidered as hardy 
hothoufe plants, and may be kept in any part of it; will flower, freely, about the month of Auguft, 
the flower-ftems rifing, fometimes, to the height of three feet. A mixture, of leaf mould, or fandy 
Peat one half, and light loam the other, is the beft compoft to make them flourifh. It is propagated 
pre ya offsets. —Having made a {mall alteration, in the Effential Character of the Genus; 
chew Woods. + ho ee — fome other {pecies of Crinums fhortly ; we think it neceffary to add 
‘above 40 f ppecide Cena. “ a oftenfible difference, we have been able to trace, in comparing 
tin@ion; can, taiciaal cals — 8 s, and on which to reft, with certainty, for generical dif- 
thud, dod. all of thi Si i — only, from the feeds; as thefe in moft fpecies of Pancratium, 
a. "elects token Seats P%e sinionl belie — or formed like flethy bulbs, producing plants, like 
4 cup; and equally fo from San oe it is diftin@, in being deftitute of the Honey- 
_ >> Upright, and the chives, twice & leah e Pet laa of many leaves, the flowers and chives 
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