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abortive in Bengal. The drawing of this plant, N. 2131, in 

 the Roxburgh Collection of the East India House, shows a 

 single flower of the natural size, and the whole plant in 

 miniature ; the flower in this drawing exactly corresponds 

 with that of C. amabile, but the representation of the plant 

 has differences which, if not errors of the artist (which it is 

 more than probable they are), would be decisive against the 

 identity of the two. In the drawing the root has little ap- 

 pearance of being a bulb ; it is all above ground, has a thick 

 stem, said to be the size of a man's leg, and from the sides of 

 the stem (and not from its base) small shoots or suckers 

 spring forth in abundance. 



The Crinum augustum is very briefly described by Dr. 

 Roxburgh as follows: " Bulb, columnar, above ground; 

 leaves sparse, lanceolate, channelled, smooth-margined; 

 scapes lateral, length of the leaves ; umbels of twenty-thirty 

 pedicelled declinate flowers, sweetly fragrant and rosy ; tube 

 a lighter purple ; filaments and style purple." Some parts of 

 the description do not perfectly agree with our C. amabile. 

 The C. augustum was introduced from the Mauritius to the 

 Botanic Garden at Calcutta ; it blossoms there at various 

 times through the year, but with the greatest luxuriance 

 during the rains. 



Messrs. Loddiges are in possession of a plant which has 

 been usually taken for the Crinum amabile, but which possibly 

 may turn out to be Crinum augustum : at all events it is dif- 

 ferent from the Wormleybury bulb. It was brought tp them 

 eight or nine years ago, from the East Indies, bv the late 

 Dr. Heyne; it flowered soon after its arrival, and has 

 flowered regularly ever since, generally twice, sometimes 



