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disposed to be pedunculated, and a more elongated 
bulb ; scape recumbent. In longifolium the style 
is red, the filaments tipped with red, in the two 
others the filaments white and the style tipped with 
red. The tube of elegans is 2i inches, and shorter 
than the limb which is 31 ; in longifolium the tube 
4 and the limb only 3, in lorifolium the tube 3 and 
the limb only 21. From Rangoon. It increases 
by the bulb splitting in halves. 
Var. 4. Venustum. — Carey. Herb. App. From Silhet. 
Leaves more obtuse than elegans; flowers about 30, 
entirely white, about the size and form of those of 
longifolium. 
Var. 5. Canalifolium. — Carey. Herb. App. Leaves an 
inch wide, more channelled than the three former, 
rather tending to glaucous ; flowers about 10, pale 
red on the outside. 
The two former grow in meadows near the great rivers 
of India, on sound turf, liable to inundation, and in the flood 
season their leaves are elongated, and they flower with the 
umbel floating like a water-lily. It is evident from the 
sloping scape of elegans that its habits are similar, and I 
have no doubt that the two others have the same. They are 
difficult to cultivate, because they are impatient of continued 
moisture, and it is difficult to accommodate them with the 
luxury of a dry sod and a seasonable inundation. They are 
so evidently akin to each other that I thought they might be 
conveniently brought together under the superior name of 
Meadow Crinum. They will not long exist in light earth, 
and should be planted in rich and pretty strong alluvial 
soil. 
25. Erythrophyllum.- — Carey. Bot. Mag. 47. 2121. 
p. 7. Ex Rangoon, foliis saturate sanguineis. 
Dr. Carey lost this remarkable plant without hav- 
ing seen its flower, and vainly attempted to obtain 
it and Macrocarpon again. There is no doubt of 
its being a distinct species, but I cannot tell what 
are its affinities. Leaves as red as those of a red 
cabbage. 
26. Gracile. — Meyer Rel. Hank. p. 120. Ex insula 
Luzon. Known only by Meyer’s description from 
a Manilla specimen. Leaves lanceolate, 1^ foot 
