CORVNOSTVLIS—COSSIGNEA— CRINUM. 



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corynostylis— A small genus of stove-climbing shrubs, producing white flowers, 

 bearing some resemblance to a Tropseolum. C. Aubleti, Guiana, is the only species 

 described and cultivated, and of this, albiflora is a desirable form. Propagation 

 is effected by inserting cuttings of young wood in sand, plunging the pots in a brisk 

 bottom heat, covering with glass and keeping the sand uniformly moist. Plants can also 

 be raised from seeds, and they thrive and flower under ordinary stove treatment. 



cossignea. — C. pinnata, from Mauritius, is the only species catalogued. It is an 

 ornamental stove shrub, and produces panicles of white flowers. Propagated by 

 cuttings of ripe wood, inserted in sand, and plunged in brisk bottom heat. A mixture 

 of two parts loam to one each of peat and sand is suitable for the plants, which must 

 have well-drained pots and abundance of water. 



CRINUM, 



Of this large family of bulbous-rooted plants, four species only are named as being 

 worthy of general cultivation in plant stoves. C. amabile, Sumatra, forms leaves 3 to 4 

 feet long and 3 to 4 inches broad, tapering to a point. The flowers are 3 to 4 inches 

 long, and twenty to thirty of these in an umbel are borne on a scape 2 to 3 feet in 

 length ; colour bright red ; summer. C. Macowani, Natal ; hardier than the preceding 

 succeeds well in a warm greenhouse ; leaves 2 to 3 feet long, 3 to 4 inches broad, and 

 the bulb 9 to 10 inches in diameter. Flowers ten to fifteen in an umbel borne on 

 peduncles 2 to 3 feet long, large in size ; colour white tinged with purple ; November. 

 C. Moorei, Natal, also succeeds best in an intermediate temperature ; leaves 2 to 3 feet 

 long and 3 to 4 inches broad, while the bulbs measure 6 inches in diameter. Flowers 

 six to ten in an umbel, of medium size, supported on peduncles 1| to 2 feet long ; colour 

 greenish white flushed with red; spring or autumn. C. purpurascens, Fernando Po 

 (Fig. 142, next page), forms numerous leaves, these being 18 inches to 3 feet long and 

 1 inch broad. Flowers five to nine in an umbel ; colour white tinged with purplish red ; 

 summer. 



Flowering plants are the most quickly obtained by means of offsets, detached from 

 the larger bulbs in March, securing as many roots as possible with them. Place the 

 offsets in pots that will hold the roots conveniently, and keep them growing strongly in 

 a moist stove all the year round, without attempting the drying process till the plants 

 attain to a flowering size. Eaising plants from seed is a very simple matter, only it 

 frequently takes three years to grow them to a flowering size. The seed is very large 



