Crinum amabile, $c. By Mr. James Veh r ell. 42,3 



proved to be C. amabile, and in bulb and foliage was not 

 distinguishable from the plants which were sent to him from 

 Calcutta as C. superbum. These circumstances, joined to an 

 assurance from Dr. Carey to Mr. Herbert that C.augustum 

 was the C. amabile of the Botanical Magazine, subsequently 

 led Mr. Herbert to the supposition which he published 

 in the Botanical Magazine* in 1820, that all three were 

 probably one and the same species. The point still requires 

 elucidation. Dr. Carey has since assured Mr. Herbert 

 that the C. augustum and superbum of Roxburgh are dif- 

 ferent. The bulb received by Mr. Herbert under the name 

 of C. augustum, which on flowering proved to be amabile, as 

 well as others sent to England by Dr. Carey, in the fol- 

 lowing year, appear to have been erroneously designated, 

 probably in consequence of some confusion of labels in his 

 garden at Calcutta. Mr. Herbert has since received from 

 Dr. Carey, under the name of C. augustum, a large bulb, 

 which is distinguishable from C. amabile, or superbum, by 

 obtuse instead of acute points to the leaves. It produced a 

 scape with twenty flower-buds last winter, which were pre- 

 vented by accident from expanding. 



Dr. Roxburgh's description of the Crinum superbum is 

 very minute, and agrees well with the Crinum amabile ; he 

 says that it is a native of the interior of Sumatra, from whence 

 it was sent by the late Dr. Charles Campbell to the Bo- 

 tanic Garden at Calcutta, where it thrives luxuriantly, and 

 blossoms at various periods of the year ; and that the beauty 

 and fragrance of its flowers make it the most desirable of 

 the Liliaceous tribe. He states also that its seed vessels are 



* See Botanical Magazine, 2121. page 4. 



