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Of the plants with very narrow petals, I have examples bought 

 under various names, e.g., asiaticum, latifolium, pedunculatum, 

 procernm, pedunculatum from Lord Howe's Island, species from 

 South Sea Islands, species from Japan, sumatranum, bracteatum. 

 &c.,all of them large plants with thick, columnar, leafy bulbs, large, 

 upright, spreading leaves, and with heads of rather insignificant 

 flowers with purple style and stamens, and all equally with short 

 peduncles, which vary in length in the same head of flowers. Some 

 of these are very near to one another, the plants especially being 

 undistinguishable. The plant from Japan differs from the rest 

 in having very short, broad leaves, and short, blunt petals. The 

 plant I have under the name of procerum is figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine, 2231, as C. declinatum ; it is a very tall plant with 

 broad, wavy leaves and very small flowers. C. sumatranum (Bot, 

 Beg. 1049) has longer and wider (not upright) petals, and is easily 

 known by the dull, darkish green of its broad, stiff leaves. C. 

 bracteatum (Bot. Beg. 179) is a similar plant with leaves of a 

 brighter green and more shining ; a short scape and large head 

 of flowers, with much broader, more upright, pure white petals. 

 In C. amabile the bulb becomes conical and less leafy, resem- 

 bling rather more a tall bulb than a column of leaves. So also 

 in C. erubescens the column approaches a short conical bulb. 

 In form and habit, and in being stoloniferous, this approaches 

 C. amcricanum, and like that species comes from tropical 

 America. It is easily known by its very dark green foliage, and 

 the scape being mottled like Snake wood. I have three or four 

 varieties of C. americanum under various names — americanum, 

 Carolinianum, prateiise from Florida, and Careyanum, the last 

 being a large form and Carolinianum a somewhat smaller 

 one, all equally beautiful. A plant from the sea-shore, Jamaica, 

 resembles these, but with a very long coloured tube, and buds 

 which are upright before expanding. In this respect it rather 

 resembles the small plant from Fernando Po, C. 'purpurascens, 

 which has flower-tubes longer than the scape. These are the 

 principal of the star-shaped Crinums with which I am 

 acquainted. 



There are two very distinct species which are intermediate 

 in habit and form of flowers between the star-shaped and 

 campanulate Crinums which I have in cultivation. One named 

 crassipes by Mr. Baker, from a plant of mine, has a thick, 



