AM AR YLLI DACEjE. 
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than those rejected by Linnaeus as too complex ; 
hut it is only where a specific name announces an 
untruth that I would countenance its rejection. 
The name spectabile occurs in Lodd. Cat. and else- 
where. I understand that it grows in ditches in 
an island, called, I believe, St. Thomas, on the 
west coast of Africa. 
Var. 2. E'xtorre. — Foliis sub-angustioribus, nitentiori- 
bus, erectioribus, undulatissimis. Leaves rather 
narrower, more shining, erect, and undulated. 
Found by my collector growing near the sea in the 
neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. It is a more thirsty 
plant than the African, and requires the earth to 
be always moist. I cannot tell whether it be a 
variety from the African plant introduced into 
Brazilian gardens and naturalized in the vicinity, 
or an ancient native of the west. 
Var. 3. Virgineum. — Martius ap. Schultes fil. Tube 
shorter than the limb, lowest petal not divaricate. 
Brazil, on the road near Mandiocca. This plant is 
distinguished by a very variable feature in the short- 
ness of the tube from the African plant, and having- 
been found near the road-side, the same doubt may 
arise whether it was growing either in the site of 
an old garden, or where it had been thrown by 
accident, or whether it is really indigenous in the 
neighbouring country. It will be a circumstance 
rather singular, if this native of tropical Africa, 
distinguished by petiolation and a consequent dis- 
turbance of the veining of the leaves, and which 
seems less willing to breed with C. Capense than 
the Crinums of other quarters, should manifest 
itself naturally with these slight variations in Brazil 
also, and there only. I have one young seedling, 
which was raised after many failures from Capense 
by Spectabile, but it is not yet arrived Jat an age to 
flower. It is very singular that the Sierra Leone 
kinds should be unwilling to cross, while all the 
others seem ready to intermingle. The petiolated 
Crinum has usually six flowers, in weak specimens 
four, in stronger, if I recollect right, eight, per- 
haps more. 
