CRINUMS. 



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conical bulb, very thick, broad, upright leaves, ending in 

 a long point, a short scape, and a few upright flowers, not 

 opening wide, and slightly ringent. It differs much both in 

 habit and form of flowers from any of the species which are 

 described and figured. Unfortunately I cannot say whence it 

 comes. I bought it many years ago at Henderson's, where it 

 was growing in a very cold house, and I grow it with the 

 deciduous Crinums from the Cape, which are nearly hardy. Then, 

 C.pratcnsc has a distinct bulb, round at the base, with a tapering 

 neck, very long, narrow-pointed, deeply channelled leaves, grow- 

 ing straight upright, and a head of few upright flowers, more 

 campanulate than star-shaped, on a short scape. Some of the 

 Australian Crinums seem to be allied to this, as far as I can 

 judge from figures. 



Of the second great group with round bulbs and cam- 

 panulate flowers, C. giganteum and its allies approach most 

 nearly in habit to the former group. They have evergreen 

 lanceolate leaves. In C. giganteum and the plant sold by Mr. 

 Bull as G. nobile, which appears to be a highly coloured variety 

 of giganteum, the leaves are spreading immediately above the 

 bulb, very wavy, and the plant altogether hardly distinguishable 

 from that of C. zeylanicum, figured in the Botanical Magazine, 

 2466, as G. Careyanum ; but there is another form of G. gigan- 

 teum, with upright, petiolate leaves, with a stout midrib and 

 thin blades, varying very much in width. C. podophyllum has 

 the appearance of a starved variety of this form. 



Allied to these in habit comes the finest of the whole genus, 

 well known as G. Moorei, figured and described also under the 

 name of C. Macoivani. It is quite distinct from all others in 

 having a long, narrow neck above its large round bulb, crowned 

 with thin, broad, lanceolate leaves, with a thick midrib, springing, 

 not in a line with the neck, but at a very obtuse angle. It 

 has very large campanulate flowers, with broad petals, varying 

 from pink to nearly white. The Glasnevin plant (Botanical 

 Magazine, 6113) has the flowers darker pink than I have ever 

 seen them, arising possibly from being grown out of doors. 



We now come to the deciduous Crinums and those allied to 

 them. These make three or four fresh leaves every year, which 

 last for three years, dying down more or less completely in the 

 winter, so that the three or four middle leaves are the middle 



