1608 CXXXI. AMAEYLLIDEiE. 



3. CRINUM, Linn. 

 (Supposed to be the Greek for Lily.) 



Perianth hypocrateriform or funnel-shaped ; tube long, cylindrical, straight or 

 'Curved ; segments linear, lanceolate or oblong, subequal. Stamens inserted at 

 the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments long, filiform. Anthers linear, 

 versatile. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules few, sometimes 2 only in a cell, but in the Aus- 

 tralian species sometimes from 10 to 12, sessile or immersed in the thick placenta. 

 Style usually long, filiform, more or less declinate ; stigma minute, capitate. 

 Fruit irregular in shape, finally bursting. Seeds large, bulbiform, with very 

 thick albumen. — Eootstock a large bulb, with membranous tunics and a produced 

 neck which in some species forms a thick stem, the bulb entirely disappearing. 

 Leaves persistent, often broad. Peduncle or scape solid. Flowers few or many 

 in an umbel, white or reddish ; pedicels usually short ; spathe-valves 2, broad. 



The genus extends over tropical and southern Africa and Asia. 



Stem 1, 2 or more ft. high, and 4 or more in. thick. Leaves glaucous 



3 to 4ft. long, about 4in. broad, thick, margins smooth. Peduncles 



IJ to 3ft. long. Flowers in umbel about 25 .... : 1. C. pedunculattim. 



Stem probably short above the ground. Leaves deep-green, 2Jft. long, 



4 to Sin. broad. Peduncle IJ to 2ft. long. Flowers in umbel about 20. 2. 0. Douglasii. 



Ko perennial stem above ground. 



lieaves 2ft. long, fin. broad. Scape IJft. high. Flowers in umbel 



6 to 7 8. C. venosum, 



Xieaves 2 to 5ft. long, 2in. broad. Scape 2ft. high. Flowers in umbel 



10 to 30 . . 4. C brachyandrum, 



ILeaves 2 to 3ft. long, 2Jin. broad in the centre. Scape 2 to 2Jft. high. 



Flowers in umbel 8 to 10 5. C brevistylum. 



Leaves 1 to IJft. long, IJ to 3J lines broad. Scape 6 to 12in. high. 



Flowers in umbel 1 or sometimes 2 . 6. 0. uniflorum. 



Xeaves from IJ to more than 2ft. long, 1 to IJin. broad, the margins 



more or less scabrous. Scape 1ft. or more high. Flowers in umbel 



few . . I.e. angustifolium. 



•licaves- 2ft. or more long, 1 to IJin. broad, margin scabrous. Scape 



1 to l^ft. high. Flowers in umbel 8 to 10 8. C. ^^estilentis. 



iLeaves IJft. long, Jin. broad, margins shghtly scabrous. Scape about 



16in. high. Flowers in umbel about 10 9. G.irishanicum. 



ILeaves 1^ to 2ft. long, 1 to IJin. broad, margin scabrous. Scape IJ to 



2ft. high. Flowers in umbel 6 to 8 10. C flaccidum. 



1. C. pedunculata (peduncles long), 7^. Br. Prod. 297 ; Benth. Fl. Atistr. 

 -vi. 455. Stems several to a plant, thick, often 5 or 6in. diameter, from 1 to over 

 .^ft. high, leafy in the upper half. Leaves usually about 15 to a stem, glaucous, 

 thick, 3 or 4ft. long, and over 4in. broad above the centre, and slightly tapering 

 'to somewhat obtuse points ; the longitudinal nerves and cross veinlets prominent ; 

 jnargins smooth. Peduncles usually from the axils of the lower leaves, often 

 exceeding 2ft. in length, compressed, l^in. broad near the base, lin. broad at the 

 .top. Involucral bracts of firm consistence, 4in. long, l|^in. or more broad at the 

 base, tapering to blunt points ; the thread-like bractioles about Sin. long, and 

 j1 line broad, flat, and white. Flowers in umbel about 24. Pedicels IJin. long, 

 •the ovary I'm. long. Perianth-tube erect, green, angular, rather slender, 3^ to 

 ■4in. long ; segments linear, white, 2^in. long, 4 or 5 lines broad ; filaments 

 spreading about f of the length of the segments, purplish in the upper half; 

 anthers narrow-linear, 6 or 7 lines long, pollen yellow. Style erect, | to f or 

 slightly exceeding the length of the filaments, purple, or, when long, white 

 ■towards the base. Stigma minutely lobed. Capsules 1 to 2in. in diameter, 

 irregularly globose, on stout pedicels from 1 to l^in. long, the terminal beak 

 prominent, 4 or 5 lines long. Seeds 9, angular, immersed in the placenta, 

 -varying much in shape and size. — Ql. Agri. Journ. iv. 47. 



Hab.: Creeks off Brisbane Elver. A common plant of the southern swamps. 

 .The leaves at limes infested with the 



