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stands. — Bulb ovate, yellowish, 2| inches diameter; neck of 
the bulb prolonged into a cylinder 5 inches long ; leaves 
eleven, bright green, lorate, attenuated to an acute point, 
with a white smooth margin, the longest 4 feet 4 inches, 16 
inches thereof erect, the rest pendulous, 1^ to 1^ wide; 
scape green, two-edged, 15 inches high ; spathe withering; 
bractes whitish, filiform, near 2f inches long ; flowers nine, 
successive; scent strong, somewhat like that of C. Amabile; 
peduncles f ths, germen very slender, \ inch long ; tube 
green, 2-2^ long ; limb white, 3 inches long, expansion 5^ ; 
sepals with green points ; filaments and style purple up- 
wards ; filaments near 1^ shorter than the limb, fths longer 
than the style ; anthers a little shrivelled ; stigma minute, 
white; cells with two or three ovules. This plant presents a 
striking instance of the filaments, at first approached to each 
other and recurved, becoming divergent by the subsequent 
great expansion of the flower, and explains the different pos- 
ture in the patent and less-expanding species. 
Cuinum Herbertianum. — I have quoted from Dr. Wal- 
lich that this plant and Zeylanicum flower, in the rainy 
season, in ditches, but I suspect some mistake ; for Dr. 
Carey mentioned Zeylanicum, latifolium, and speciosum, as 
flowering at various seasons, (speciosum almost colourless in 
the cold season,) and did not intimate that they had any 
aquatic predilections in Bengal, while he particularly pointed 
out defixum as the inmate of the wet ditches, and longifolium 
of the flooded meadows. I apprehend the plants seen by Dr. 
Wallich must have been on the ditch-bank, or at least in a 
situation subject only to occasional short submersion. They 
require to be quite dry in the winter, but a short inundation 
would not be injurious to them in the first vigour of their 
growth. It is evident, that in cultivation these bulbs should 
be abundantly watered for a short time while their leaves are 
growing. 
Crinum Lindleyanum. — A specimen of this plant from 
Demerara, in Sir W. Hooker’s herbarium, has the leaves acute, 
fths wide, 18 inches long, exactly agreeing with some of the 
leaves of my plant ; scape a foot, flowers eight, tube 4 inches, 
limb about 2^, style equalling the limb, exceeding the fila- 
ments near an inch. 
Crinum Loddigesianum. — This plant has flowered late 
this winter, with a six-flowered scape, the bulb having grown 
to twice the bulk it had last year. Its nearest affinity is evi- 
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