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part of last year's leaves, and the three or four bottom leaves 

 are the base of the leaves of the year before. They all have cam- 

 panulate nodding flowers, with the ends of the petals more or 

 less rolled back, and with a more or less bright red stripe down 

 the middle of each petal. I believe that all of these very 

 beautiful plants are African. From C. Kirlci of Zanzibar to- 

 C. longifolium at the Cape and C. yuccceflorum of the West 

 Coast a series of intermediate forms are found. One rather 

 extreme form is Mr. Baker's C '. pauciflorum, with two flowers with 

 very long tubes, which I have from Lake Nyassa. I have two- 

 or three forms from the Upper Zambesi, varying in the colour 

 and width of the leaves and the length of the tube ; and as the 

 interior of Africa becomes better known, no doubt we shall 

 obtain from thence a great variety of forms of this beautiful 

 plant, which may be called varieties of one species, or a dozen 

 or more different species, according to the fancy of the botanist 

 who describes and names them. They all have nodding cam- 

 panulate flowers, with the ends of the petals more or less rolled 

 back, and with a more or less distinct purplish red stripe along 

 the middle of each petal. Towards the West Coast of Africa 

 are some forms with somewhat narrower petals, less rolled back, 

 and with a very bright stripe. C. scabrum, from Brazil, and a 

 plant that seems to be common in Jamaica, resemble these 

 closely. I suppose that they have been brought from Africa by 

 slave ships. 



In the largest of the deciduous Crinums that I have — coming 

 I believe, from Natal or thereabouts — the bulb is five or six 

 inches in diameter, the leaves four or five inches wide in the 

 second year, more in the third year ; a large head of nearly 

 white, bell-shaped, nodding flowers, with the tips of the petals 

 rolled back. I have had it under the name of campamtlatitm,. 

 which well describes it ; and as the plant generally known 

 as campamtlatum is figured in the Botanical Magazine, 2352, as 

 C. aquaticum, which describes it far better than C. campanu- 

 latum does, it might perhaps be as well to keep this name for 

 the large kind. 



Another similar large bulb has shorter flowers, with much 

 more colour. Mr. Baker thought the flower the same as that of 

 C. Forbesi, but it is not the same as the plant at Kew of that 

 name. 



