PLATE CLXIX. 



CRINUM GIGANTEUM. 



Gigantic JlJ'pliodel-L.ily. 



CLASS VL ORDER L 

 HEXAISDRIA MONOGYMJ. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fuprn, infuiidibuliformis, fexpartita, 

 aequalis; filamenta tubi fauci inferta; fe- 

 naina ad bafin corollarum, vivipara. 



Blossom above, funnel-fliaped, fix-parted, equal; 



threads inferted into the mouth of the tube; 



feeds at the bale of the blolloms, viviparous. 



See Crinum spirale, PI. XCII. Vol. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Crinum foliis flaccldis, undulatis ; floribus felli- 

 libus, umbellatis; petalis concavis, fub- 

 albidis. 



Afphodel-Lily with flaccid, waved leaves; flow- 

 ers fitting clofe to the flower ftem in um- 

 bels ; petals concave, nearly white. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A miniature rcprefentatiun of the whole plant. 



2. A Petal with its chive. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. 



The coaft of Africa bordering on our fettlement at Sierra Leone, has furnillied us with a number of 

 beautiful plants; but none more {o, than thole of the natural order of Lily; witnefs our prefent 

 figure, which was taken from a plant in the Hamraerfmith collection, in the month of Auguft ISOO. 

 The bulbs of this grand Ipecies of Crinum, were received by her Ladyfliip, the Right Honourable the 

 Marchionefs of Rockingham, about the year I /0)2, from Sierra Leone ; they may be conlidered as hai dy 

 hothoufe plants, and may be kept in any part of it: will flower, freely, about the month of Auguft, 

 the flower-ftems rifing, foraetimes, to the height of three feet. A mi.\ture, of leaf mould, or fandy 

 peat one half, and light loam the other, is the beft compoft to make them flourifli. It is propagated 



from the feed, or offsets. Having made a fmall alteration, in the Elfential Charaftcr of the Genus; 



and as it is likely we may figure fome oilier Ipecies of Crinums fhorlly; we think it neceflary to add 

 a few words, to that point. The mod oftenfible difference, we have been able to trace, in comparing 

 above 40 Ipecies of Crinums and Amaryllis's, and on which to reft, with certainty, for generical dif- 

 tindion; can, unqueftionably, be taken only, from the feeds; as thefe in molt Ipecies of Pancratium, 

 Haemanthus, and all of this Genus, are viviparous or formed like flefliy bulbs, producing plants, like 

 offsets taken from the original bulbs. From Pancratium it is diftind, in being deftitute of the Honey- 

 cup; and equally fo from Haemanthus, uhich has its fheath of many leaves, the flowers and chives 

 upright, and the chives, twice the length of the bloffoms. 



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