•Crinum.] CXXXI. AMARYLLIDE^. 1611 



'myself felt unwell from the odour of a single flower in a room. The species is very near one 

 mentioned by Mr. Baker under the name C. angustifolium, var. hlandum, also C. arenariiim, B. 

 Herb , in Bot. Mag. t. 2531, which is in Flora Austr. under 0- Jiaccidum. 



9. C. brisbanicum (of Brisbane), Bail. Ql. Agrie. Jouni. iv. 47. Bulb 

 about l^in. diameter, not produced into a column. Leaves 5 or to each 

 plant, linear, substance rather thick, the margins very slightly rough, about 

 18in. long and about Jin. broad, of a deep bright-green. Scape about 16in. 

 high, eompressed-cylindric, scarcely exceeding -lin. diameter at the base. 

 Flowers in umbel about 10, the 2 large involucral bracts 2 or Sin. long, 

 the interior ones (bracteoles) thread-like. Pedicels about 6 or 7 lines, ovary 3 

 lines long. Perianth-tubes slender, greenish. Sin. long. Segments lanceolate, 

 ■-2Jin. long, Jin. broad, white, with more or less greenish subulate points, those 

 ■on the outer segments the longest. Stamens about half the length of the 

 segments, those opposite the outer segments shorter than the other three ; 

 filaments deep-pink. Anthers 2Jin. long. Style coloured like the filaments and 

 shortly exceeding them. Buds pinkish outside and pendulous before opening. 

 Flower fragrant, erect. 



Hab.: Sandy land near the coast, Brisbane River. 



10. C. flaccidum (feeble), Herb, in Bot. Mag., t. 213S ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vi. 454. Bulb ovoid, 8 to 4in. diameter, neck very short. Leaves hnear, 1^ to 

 •2ft. long, 1 to IJin. broad, the nerves close, margins scabrous. Scape IJ to 2ft. 

 high, much compressed. Flowers white, usually 6 to 8 in the umbel, on pedicels 

 varying from J to l|in., the bracts of the involucre much dilated at the base, 

 •3 to 4in. long. Ovary not beaked and scarcely contracted under the perianth. 

 Perianth-tube scarcely 8 to 4in. long, usually curved, the segments of the limb 

 ^bout 2J to Sin. long, and much broader than in any other Australian species, 

 fin. in "some specimens, nearly lin. in others, the whole size of the flower 

 ■evidently variable. Filaments from f to f as long as the segments ; anthers 

 .from scarcely above 3 lines to IJin. Ovules several in each cell, superposed. — 

 Amaryllis australasica, Ker. in Bot. Reg. t. 426 ; A. australis, Spreng. Syst. ii. 54. 



Hab.: A southern inland species. 



4. EURYCLES, Salisb. 

 (Alluding to the broad divisions of the corona.) 



Perianth deciduous, funnel-shaped, with a slender but usually short tube and 

 <6 nearly equal broad lobes. Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the tube ; 

 filaments united at the base or to above the middle in a corona, produced between 

 the free parts of the filaments into 2 lobes and sometimes separating between the 

 filaments so as to leave them free but dilated into lateral appendages ; anthers 

 ^-lobed at the base. Ovary 8-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell collaterally 

 ;attached to an axile placenta. Style filiform, obtuse, with a terminal stigma. 

 Fruit more or less succulent, with 1 or few seeds. — Bulbous herbs. Leaves all 

 radical, petiolate, the lamina broad with longitudinal rather distant veins and 

 transverse veinlets between them. Scape leafless. Flowers usually white, in a 

 terminal umbel surrounded by 2 or 3 membranous bracts. 



The genus extends over some islands of the Indian Archipelago. 

 Leaves very broad and cordate. Corona not J as long as the perianth- 



jgljgg I, B. amioiiiensis. 



Leaves ovate, not cordate. Corona not J as long as the lobes . . . . 2. E. Cunniughamii. 



1. E. amboinensis (of Amboyna), Loud. Encyel. PI. 242 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vi. 456. " Bulb , tunicate, brown." Leaves usually several, on rather long 

 petioles, broadly ovate-cordate orbicular-cordate or almost reniform, often 8 to 



