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4. Amada, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 33. — Tubers palmate, inwardly 

 pale-yellow; leaves long-petioled; broad, lanceolate, smooth spikes; 

 central about 6 inches high, cyhndric, crowned with a tuft of pale 

 rosy abortive bracts; flowers rather small, yellow. The Concans 

 and Gujarat, Nimmo. 



6. PsEUDOMONTANA, Grab, in Cat. Bomb. PI. p 210. — 

 Tubers of the root round, size of small potatoes, white inside ; 

 leaves, including the petiole, 2 to 3 feet long, tapering at both 

 ends, 6 to 1 ^< inches broad ; scape central ; coma of a beautiful dark 

 rose-colour, waved ; flowers yellow, of about equal length ; flowers 

 in September. The Concans. 



6. Caulina, Graham Ioc. cit. — Root with large oblong tubers^ 

 white inside; radical leaves short-petioled, 1 2 to 20 inches long; 

 scape central, leafy, 3 feet high ; upper leaves on the stem alternate, 

 frequently tinged with a beautiful red ; coma white ; bracts green, 

 large, loose, oval ; flowers yellow, longer than the bracts. Table- 

 land of Mahableshwur. 



CXLVI. AMARYLLIDACE^. 

 1. CRINUM, Linn. 



1. C RoxBUHGHii, Dalz. — Root bulbous, with a fusiform crown ; 

 stem none ; leaves radical, hnear concave, without a keel ; margins 

 smooth, 1 to 3 feet long, three-quarters of an inch broad ; scapes 

 about the length of the leaves, a little compressed, smooth ; spathe 

 2-leaved, with filiform bracts among the flowers; flowers large, 

 white, subsessile ; corol-tube 4 to 6 inches long ; berry sub- 

 globose. Common on the banks of the Deccan rivers ; flowering 

 in October. Syn. C asiaticum, Koxb. Fl. Ind. ii, p 127 ; non Willd. 



2. C AfiiATicuM, Linn. sp. 419. — Caulescent or stemless; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, very smooth ; margins entire, striated 

 beneath, 3 to 4 feet long and 5 to 7 inches broad ; scapes axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves, a little compressed ; flowers numerous, 

 12 to .50 in an umbel, white, almost inodorous ; berries roundish, 

 the size of a pigeon's egg. The Concans. The leaves are said 

 to be equal as an emetic to the best Ipecacuanha. Syn. C toxica- 

 rium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 134; C brevifolium, Roxb. Ioc. cit; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1073, 2121, 2231, 2908; Bot. Reg. t. 179. Native name 

 "INagdaun." 



3. C AuGUSTUM, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 136. — Bulb columnar, 

 mostly above ground ; leaves lanceolate, channelled, linearly taper- 

 ing, 3 to 5 feet long, and 3 to 4 inches broad ; scapes lateral, from 

 the axils of the outermost leaves, and nearly as long ; umbels com» 

 posed of 30 to 40 pedicelled flowers, white or rosy, and fragrant ; 



