AMARYLLIDACEAE 



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CRINUM RUMPHII sp. nov. 



Radix toxicaria II terrestris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 156. 



Amboina, Hitoe lama, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 131 (type) , October 

 8, 1913, in forests, altitude about 200 meters, locally known as pohon tolok. 



Planta magna, glabra; foliis ut videtur numerosis, usque ad 

 70 cm longis et 18 cm latis, chartaceis, acutis, basi angustatis, 

 petiolo circiter 30 cm longo. Floribus numerosis, breviter pe- 

 dicellatis, tubo circiter 15 cm longo, segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, 

 circiter 14 cm longis et 6 mm latis. 



A large, entirely glabrous plant. Leaves apparently numer- 

 ous, when dry dark-olivaceous chartaceous, about 70 cm long 

 and 18 cm wide, acute, base narrowed, the petiole about 20 cm 

 long, and when dry and flattened out 2.5 to 3 cm wide. Peduncle 

 not seen. Flowers numerous, white, at least 20 to each peduncle, 

 the spathe-valves about 18 cm long and 3 cm wide, narrowed 

 upward, subacute. Pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long, the perianth-tube 

 slender, including the ovary about 15 cm long. Flowers white, 

 the filaments lilac. Segments linear-lanceolate, about 14 cm 

 long and 6 mm wide, acute. Fruit not seen. 



A species well characterized by its very large leaves and long 

 slender perianth-tube. It is manifestly in the same group as 

 Crinum asiaticum Linn., but differs from that species in many 

 characters, as well as in its entirely different habitat. Hasskarl, 

 Neue Schliissel (1866) 178, thought that Radix toxicaria II 

 terrestris might be the same as Crinum procerum Carey, which, 

 however, is a synonym of C. asiaticum Linn. 



CRINUM ZEYLANICUM Linn. Syst. ed. 12 (1767) 236. 

 Amaryllis zeylanica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 293. 

 Amaryllis lineata Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 123. 

 Tulipa javana Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 306, t. 105.' 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections, 

 although doubtless it is still cultivated in Amboina as it is in 

 other parts of Malaya. Rumphius states that it was introduced 

 into Amboina from Java about 1670. The figure is an excellent 

 representation of Crinum zeylanicum Linn. It was first reduced 

 by Linnaeus to Amaryllis zeylanica Linn., in Stickman Herb. 

 Amb. (1754) 22, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 131, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 

 977, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 421, which as Crinum zeylanicum Linn, 

 has very generally been accepted as the correct disposition of 

 Tulipa javana Rumph. 



