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CRINUM bracteatum. 
Short-leaved Crinum. 
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HEXANDRIA J/ONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IZ. Germen inferum. 
AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. Radix bulbosa. 
Flores spathacei wmbellati, raro solitarit. 
CRINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 52. 
C. bracteatum, bulbo subcolumnari; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusé acu- 
minatis cum puncto cartilagineo, margine Jevissimis, subundulatis; 
umbella multiflora pedunculata pallido-bracteosa; limbo tubo sub- 
longiore; stylo breviore staminibus. s . 
Crinuin bracteatum. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 47. Jacq. hort. scheenb. 4.7. t. 495. 
Crinum brevifolium. Roxburgh MSS. cum tab. pict. In the Library of the 
East India Company. a, 
Bulbus magnus ovato-cylindraceus 4-5-uncialis, non verd porraceus »v. pro- 
ductus in collum, radiculis crassis. Folia plurima, multifaria, patentia, 1- 
sesquipedalia, uncias 3-5 lata, utringue striata, exteriora sepius cartilagine 
tenui alba integerrima abeunte in cuspidem callosam marginata, deorsim ‘bre- 
vitér angustata atque erecta. Scapus 8-uncialis ad pedalem, valdé com- 
pressus, ints planior, extis convexior, Umbella 10-20-flora, conspicue 
distincta bracteis pallidis lanceolatis tubum subsuperantibus. Spatha 3-uncialis. 
Flores magni, albi, odori, breve pedunculati, wncias 5 in extensum superantes 
tubus rectus, tereliusculus, obsolel® trigonus, calamum crassus; lacinie limbi 
recurvo-stellate, lanceolato-lineares, subequales, equantes v. subsuperantes 
tubum, exteriores tertiam partem uncie late, canaliculato-concave, interiores 
angustiores” planiores. Fil. regulari-divergentia, ex tertid parte breviora 
limbo v. magis, superne sanguineo-rubentia ; anth. vibrate, flectende. Stylus 
brevior staminibus, sanguineus: stig. punctum viride, obsolete trilobulatum: 
germ. breve, oblongum. — ; 
The number of the recorded species of the stately tro- 
pical group to which our plant belongs, has been nearly 
trebled by the late Dr. Roxburgh, during his assiduous su- 
perintendence of the botanic garden at Calcutta: while 
the address with which he has selected and defined the 
discriminating marks of congeners of such signal simplicity 
and sameness of configuration, in the unedited portion of 
‘his Plantce Coromandele, would of itself constitute no mean 
memorial of his skill. 
The plant which is the subject of this article is native of 
the Island of Mauritius; was first introduced into the gar- 
den at Calcutta; and from thence, by Sir Abraham Hume, 
into this country: but seems to have been known in th 
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