LIi. 
~CRINUM YUCCASFLORUM. 
Yucca-flowered Crinum. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Narcissi. Juss. Gen. p. 5A. 
A 
RA ENERO RITE 
Sect. II. Pericarpium inferum. 
Corolle Tubus longus, cylindraceus apice parum dilatato, in quibusdam din vegetus: Limbus 
priusquam expandit subtus ventricosior, dein regularis irregularisve, 6-partitus. Filamenta 
0 ; 
membranaceum. Semina pauca in singulis loculis, bulbiformia. Bulbus porriformis aut 
subrotundus. Folia quadantenus Agavium, multifaria, toto anno prodeuntia lateribus dum 
' juniora complicatis. Pedunculus 1-26-florus, solidus. Bracteg interiores ramentacee, Cha- 
racterem suum ad C. Americanum proposuit Linne: huic jungo ejus C. Asiaticum, C. Erubes- 
cens, L. fil. C. Commelini, Jacq. C. Giganteum, Kenn. Amaryllidem Ornatam, L. fil. 
Tulipam Javanam, Rumph. Lilio-narcissum Ceylanicum, &c. Commel. C. Longifolium, Thunb. 
omnia ab Amaryllide, preter fructum, vel sola herba dignoscenda, Species limbo magis irre- 
gulari separare, vetuit C. Giganteum Kenn. 
» Limbo irregulari. 
C. foliis parum angustatis, rare crenulatis, basi undulatis: fasciculo 2-4-floro : corolle limbo 
tubo 4 breviore ; laciniis anguste lanceolatis : antheris infra medium insertis, mucronatis. 
Sponta nascentem in Sierra Leon, legit A, Afzelius. 
Floret apud nos Augusto, Septembri. 
: When Linné constituted his genera of Crinum and Amaryllis in the Hortus Cliffortianus, few 
liliaceous plants were known in Europe ; and of the great number since introduced, almost every 
Species with a bulbous root, and germen inferum, however iscordant in habit, has been eetervett 
to one or the other of those genera. ‘The celebrated Solander first lessened the number ved 
d both their MSS. are published in the Hortus Kewensis: lastly, Jacquin 
Tenellum, to his genus of Strumaria. Full as much remains to be done in Amaryliis, 
hat the Buibine Asiatica of Gertner is I am i ' i no. 
. rerg yet ignoran tay 
> sentgee if I should guess at any one in particular, it would be the Capa Sylvestris of 
mph, 
1 wish the specific differences of the plant now figured were as well ascertained as its genus 5 
two others exceeding! ak Pee wn in the stoves about * 
y similar from the same country are known 10 pyry 
OF the names of Ornata and Uniflora, the last of which is probably a weak bulb ot ee Sree 
