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AMABYLLIDACE.E. 
* Ferine sarniensis, Herb. ; Kuntb, Enum. v. 617 (Amaryllis 
sarniensis, Linn. ; Bot. Mag. tab. 294), tbe so-called Guernsey Lily, a 
native of the Cape, is naturalised in Mauritius on the banks of the 
Moka river near the church. It has an ovoid bulb with membranous 
tunics, several glabrous fleshy lorate leaves a foot or more long, a 
naked scape as long as the leaves, bright red flowers 6-8 in an umbel, 
long pedicels, a globose deeply-grooved ovary, limb cut down to the 
ovary into oblanceolate divisions and more or less exserted stamens 
and style. Petit Lis rouge. 
1. CRINUM, Linn. 
Perianth superior, with a long funnel-shaped tube above the ovary, 
the 6 subequal segments spreading or permanently ascending. Stamens 
6, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, declinate, shorter than 
the segments. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; style long, filiform, declinate ; 
stigma capitate. Capsule globose, bursting irregularly, the seeds often 
bulbiform. — Very handsome bulbous plants with lorate leaves and large 
fragrant white or reddish flowers in umbels. Distbib. Cosmopolitan 
in the tropics. Species 30. 
Flowers stalked, with a space between the perianth-seg- 
ments when they are expanded. 
Segments in. broad 1. C. asiaticum. 
Segments f in. broad 2. C. augustum. 
Flowers sessile, with perianth-segments edge to edge 
when expanded 3. C. Careyanum. 
1. C. asiaticum, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. v. 547. Bulb ovoid, a 
foot long. Stem short. Leaves green, lorate, 3-4 feet long, 4-5 
inches broad, rather fleshy. Peduncle lateral, slightly compressed, 
shorter than the leaves. Flowers 20-30 in an umbel, distinctly 
stalked, erect, white, scarcely at all scented, with a tube 3-4 inches 
long above the ovary and 6 rather shorter equally spreading strap- 
shaped segments in. broad. Filaments as long as the segments of 
the limb, with yellow anthers f inch long. Capsule depresso-globose, 
l-y in. broad. Bot. Mag. tab. 1073. C. toxicarium, Roxb. FI. 
Ind . ii. 134. 
Var. C. bbacteatum, Willd . ; Jacq. Hort. Schoen. tab. 495. 
Smaller in all its parts, with leaves 12-18 inches long and tube and 
limb of the flower each only 2-2^ inches. Gawl. in Bot. Rea. tab. 
179. y 
The type a native of tropical Asia, naturalised in Mauritius and Rodriguez. 
The var. bracteatum , common in the Seychelles, in some parts of Mahe, especially 
on the sandy beaches of the western coast, Horne ! Lis sauvage and var. bracteatum. 
Lis a petites feuilhs. 
