By the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert. |f>;> 



though I have not yet seen its flower, which has not been 

 described in any publication. 



I may take this opportunity of mentioning that the Cri- 

 num augustum of the Calcutta Catalogue, which has been 

 supposed to be an unknown species, has proved, by its flower 

 in this country, to be the same plant as Sir Abraham Hi mi; s 

 Crinum named amabile in the Botanical Magazine, Plate 

 1605 ; and that it is now well known at Calcutta to be so. 

 There are seven species of Crinum from the northern coast 

 of New Holland, at present in cultivation at Calcutta, where 

 they have not, however, as yet yielded any increase. Of 

 these, I believe, only two have been described, and that very 

 imperfectly. 



I have just raised from seed, mules from Crinum Capense 

 (Amaryllis longifolia), impregnated by Crinum erubescens, 

 and also from Crinum Capense, impregnated by a splendid 

 crimson and white species of Amaryllioid Crinum with broad 

 petals, which being, I believe, unrecorded, T have named tca- 

 berrimum, on account of the very rough margin of its leaf. It 

 is very remarkable, that the radical shooting from the seed of 

 this Crinum scaberrimum is at first woolly, and that the radi- 

 cle of the seeds of Capense impregnated with its pollen have 

 proved woolly also, though that of the other seeds produced 

 from it are quite smooth. I continue to find, invariably, the 

 mule seedlings, from a similar impregnation, alike amongst 

 themselves ; and to distinguish the origin of the many new 

 species of plants so created, I propose to call each by the 

 name of its female parent, with that of the male prefixed in 

 the ablative. I should therefore call the hybrid Crinum Go- 

 venium, of which you have received a specimen, Crinum Mo- 



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