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it was sent to Lady Amelia Hume, from Calcutta, in 1808, 

 by Dr. Roxburgh : it blossomed first in July 1813, and 

 was then figured in the Botanical Magazine* This plant has 

 produced only four off-sets; one, that which is here described ; 

 the second was given to the Dowager Lady de Clifford ; 

 the third was given to Mr. Griffin of South Lambeth; 

 and the fourth is still at Wormleybury. In the figure of the 

 Botanical Magazine, the antherae are erroneously coloured 

 purple, and the peduncles are not usually so green as there 

 represented. 



The name of Amabile has been attached to this species 

 in England, though it is not now known by that appel- 

 lation among the botanists of the East Indies ; but it was 

 so called when it was sent to Wormleybury by Dr. Rox- 

 burgh, in 1808. This name was first published in the 

 sixth edition of Dong's Hortus Cantabrigiensis in 1811, 

 and was adopted by Mr. Bellenden Ker, who drew up 

 the description of the plant for the Botanical Magazine in 

 1813 ; he afterwards, in his Monograph of the Genus Crinum, 

 published in 1817, in the Journal of Science and the Arts, f 

 identified it with the Crinum superbum of Dr. Roxburgh's 

 MS. Flora Indica. The Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, 

 in his treatise on the Amaryllis longifolia, read to the Horti- 

 cultural Society in 1818,J mentioned thatCrinum amabile had 

 been ascertained to be the C. augustum of the Calcutta Cata- 

 logue, he having received from Dr. Carey of Serampore a 

 plant with the name of C. augustum, which on flowering 



* See Botanical Magazine, plate 1605. 



f See Journal of Science and the Arts, vol. iii. page 1 1. 



X See Horticultural Transactions, vol. iii. page 195. 



