Crinum.~\ 
AMARYLLIDACEiB. 
367 
2. C. augustum, Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 136. Bulb conical, 8-9 inches 
long and half a foot thick, with dull brown tunics. Leaves about half 
a dozen, contemporary with the flowers, lorate, bright green, 2-3 feet 
long, 3-4 inches broad, smooth at the edge. Scape lateral from the 
rosette of leaves, compressed, 2 feet high, an inch thick, much tinged 
with purple in the upper half. Spathes deltoid, bright red, 3-4 inches 
long ; flowers 12-30 in an umbel, distinctly stalked, with a bright red 
tube 3-4 inches long, and segments of equal length, erecto-patent in 
full expansion, f inches broad, bright red all down the back, paler red 
down the face, passing to pink at the edge. Stamens reaching about 
halfway up the limb, with anthers \ inch long. Scent strong. Rot. 
Mag. tab. 2397. 
Mauritius, in marshes at Flacq and Pampiemousses and the border of the 
Riviere des Citroniers. Seychelles, in poor light sandy soils in Mahe and 
Curieuse, Horne, 398 ! Described from a living plant sent to Kew by Mr. 
Home. C. manritianum , Lodd., known only from an imperfect figure in the 
Botanical Cabinet, tab. 650, may be this species. Endemic. Lis du Fays, 
3. C. Careyanum, Herbert in Bot. Mag. tab. 2466. Bulb sub- 
globose, with reddish tunics. Leaves bright green, spreading, 2-3 feet 
long, 2 inches broad, scabrous at the edge. Scape slightly compressed, 
green, as long as the leaves ; spathe-valves 4 inches long ; flowers 6-10 in 
an umbel, fragrant, sessile, with a slender tube 3-4 inches long and 
oblanceolate- oblong ascending segments of equal length about an inch 
broad, placed edge to edge when expanded, with a rose-coloured stripe 
down the middle on the outside. Filaments declinate, nearly as long as 
the limb. Style as long as the limb. 
Mauritius, in damp places of the heights of the Quartier of Plaines-Wilhelms. 
Seychelles, plentiful in Mahe on the beach at Port Victoria. Endemic, but scarcely 
more than a variety of C. zeylanicum, Linn. (Amaryllis ornata, Bot. Mag. tab. 1171. 
Crinum ornatum, Herb. Kunth, Enum. v. 573), which is wild both in Tropical Asia 
and Tropical Africa, and is a stronger plant with broader leaves and a more de- 
cided band of red down the outside of the perianth-segments. The typical variety 
is commonly cultivated and is naturalized in some parts of Mauritius, as at Flacq 
and Pampiemousses. Lis blanc. 
* Agave americana, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. v. 819, the common 
American Aloe, is often subspontaneous in hedgerows and on dry 
banks. It has a sessile rosette of few glaucous toothed oblanceolate 
leaves 6-8 feet long, very thick in texture, from which arises a stem 
20-40 feet high which forms a lax thyrsoid panicle at the top, with 
flowers in crowded clusters. The flowers are yellowish-green, 3-4 
inches long, with a cylindrical ovary as long as the limb, a short cup- 
shaped tube above it and ascending oblong segments, exserted stamens 
and very large (an inch long) yellow versatile anthers. Aloes. The plant 
called by Bojer A. angusti/olia, Haworth, I have no means of 
identifying. 
* Fourcroya gigantea , Vent. ; Kunth, Enum. v. 841 ; Bot. Mag. 
tab. 2250 (Agave fcetida, Linn.), a native of Tropical America, is 
