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Ce : CRINUM pedunculatum. 
46 2 Botany-bay Lily or Crinum. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
CRINUM. Unmbella ramentis bracteaceis interstincta, spatham. 
generalem bivalvem excedens. Cal.0. Cor. supera, regularis, tubulosé- 
sexfida ; tubus strictus; limbus sexpartitus, radiatus, subeequalis. Stan. 
‘tubo adnata, indé divergentia; anth. lineares, vibrate. Sty lus reclinatus. 
‘Caps. membranacea, oblato-sphzerica, pulvinato-triloba, 3-loc.; ‘sem. 
numerosa,_ horizontalia, duplici serie cumulata, margini interiori septi 
utrinque annexa, anguloso-compressa, vel nunc in loculamento quod 
replet precociiisve dirumpit tantummodd.unum aut alterum emollescente 
albumine tuberoso-laxatum. 
Ab Amanyttprnvs - longiits tubulosis solimmodd regularitate 
corolla discrepans; & Pancratio defect, membrane staminilege. 
Hammanruo valde affine. Bulbus mod) caudicis vel stipitis ad instar 
productus, totus extat humo. Folia fasciculato-divergentia, oblonge 
lovatevé lanceolata, canaliculato-explicanda. 
a a snare 
C. pedunculatum ; bulbo cylindrico, glabro; scapo centrali, lato-com- 
presso ; umbella pedunculata ; stylo staminibus breviore, 
Crinum pedunculatum. Brown prod. 1. 207. 
Crinum taitense. Redouté liliac. 408. 
Crinum australe. Donn cant. ed. 6. 83. 
A genus connected by the closest affinity with Amaryxuts, 
from the larger tubular-flowered species of which it differs _ 
only by the greater regularity in the disposition of the seg- 
ments of the corolla. i 
The present plant is a native of New South Wales, and 
has been very generally confounded with Crinum astaticum ; 
the cause, most probably, of its not having found a place in 
the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. But it differs 
from that species, by the bulb, which grows upon a large 
rootstock entirely above ground, is smooth and of a cy- 
lindric form, resembling very much that of the leek, ex- 
cept in dimension, which varies from the circumference 
of a man’s arm to three times that size, and even more; 
also by a broader flattened stem, and by a style that is 
shorter than the filaments. Leaves many, fasciculate, mul- 
tifariously divergent, broadly lorate-lanceolate, involutely 
concave, smooth and entire at the edges, two or three feet 
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