PLATE CLXIX. 



CRINUM GIGANTEUM. 



Gigantic Afpliodel-Lily . 



CLASS VL ORDER L 



HEXANDRIJ MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fupra, infundibuliformis, fexpartita, 

 aequalis; filamenta tubi fauci infertai ^^- 

 mina ad bafin coroUarura, vivipara. 



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



threads inferted into the mouth of the tube; 



feeds at the bafe of the bloffoms, viviparous. 



See Ckinum spikalb, Pl.XCII. Vol.11. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Crinum foliis flaccidis, undulatis; floribus felTi- Afphodel-Lily with flaccid, waved leaves; flow- 



Hbus, umbellatis; petalis concavis, fub- 

 albidis. 



ers fitting clofe to the flower ftem in um- 

 bels ; petals concave, nearly white. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A miniature reprefentatiun of the whole plarit. 



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 furniflied us with a number of 

 beautiful plants; but none more fo, than ihofe of the natural order of Lily; witnefs our prefent 

 Th"!' i'k'"'''^ ^^" '^"^^" ^™"" ^ P'^"' '" '^"^ Hammerfmith collection, in the month of Auguft 1800. 

 Ihe bulbs of this grand fpecies of Crinum, were received by her Ladyfliip, the Right Honourable the 

 Marchionefs of Rockingham, about the year 1792, from Sierra Leone ; they may be confidered as hardy 

 notlH>ule 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 



from th^ 7 )i i' ^''' '°'" ""^ "*"'' '' '^^ ^^'^ ^°'"P°'^ '° '^^^'^ ^'le-" fl''""^'- It '^ propagated 



and ,« i! ri' T """"'"S "'"^'^ ^ ^"^^'l ^i'teration, in the EtTential Charaaer of the Genus; 



a few wo d , 'iw "'^ '^^"' '■"■"^ °^^'" ^P^^'^= °f Crinums fliortly; we think it necefl-ary to add 

 above lo Scies of Cr°""- .' T^" °''^"'"^ ^'''"'-'^''' ^^ '^^ "^e-^ ^^le to trace, in comparing 

 tinaion can unn„S ™M '", ^■^^■•>'"'-' -^ «" which to reft, with certainty, for generical dif- 

 H™;hura:rall ISen '^'^" °"'^' '"""^ ^^ '^''^' ^' "^'"^ "' ""« '>-- of'pancratiu., 

 offsets taken from the original bulbs "fZT"' °- '""'^ "*"= ^'"^' '^""'^' P''"''"""^ P'^""' '"' 

 cup; and equallv fo frnm H u Pancratmm it is diftind, in being deftitute of the Honey- 



upright, and the'chives, tSrSt^gtltf th'e Uoffoms"* "' """' ''''''" '" '°^"^ ^"' ^''"' 



