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if CRINU M amabile: 6. augustum. 
/ Mauritius Crinum. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
! eerie 
Nat. ord. Narcissi. Jussieu gen. 54, Div. I. Germeninferum. 
- AMARYLLIDER, Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. F. Radix bul- 
_____bosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, rard solitarii. 
CRINUM, Umbella spathd bivalvi longior, bracteis distincta. Cor. 
X tubus strictus, germine pluriés longior: faux nulla: limbus 
tubuloso-sexfida: ¢ 
sexpartitus, stellatus, subwqualis, regularis. tilamenta summo tubo in- 
serta, uno vers inclinata vel sexfariam divergentia: anthere lineares, 
incumbentér vibrate. Stylus inclinatus: stigma simplex vel obsolete trina. 
Germ. 3-loculare, polyspermum, ovulis biseriatis. Caps. membranaceo-te- 
nuis vel coriaceo-crassa, spherica, sepits oblata, nunc abortd uni-bilocularis: 
semina numerosa, horizontalia, margini interne septi utrinque annexa, cu- 
mulata, anguloso-compressa, submarginata, sepissimé verd tuberoso-laxata, 
pauca vel et solitaria. é 
Genus in AMARYLLIDEM transeuns ad istius species elongato-tubulosas 
cum foliis multifariis, @ quibus separatur sold regularitate limbi. FmMAn- 
THO accedit ad istius multitlorum. Bulbus sepée more Porri elongatus cy- 
lindricus, forma fere caudicis prominens. Fol. multifaria, late vel angusté 
lorata, canaliculata vel planiora. Flores candicantes, vel varie purpuras- 
centes, ampli. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 3. 103. 
» 
Div. IT. Umbella pedunculata. ; 
C. amabile, bulbo elongato, conico, extante, foliis numerosis lato-subulatis 
glauciusculis, margine levi, umbella numerosd, tubo subbreviore limbo. 
Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 3.111. 
Crinum amabile. Donn hort. cant. ed. 6. 83. Nobis in Curtis’s magaz. 1605. 
tabb. A. et B. # 
Crinum superbum. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. 
(@) augustum; plantd dimidio feré mmor; stylo staminibus plurimim bre- 
viore; (antheris.luteis.) Herbert append. 47. Gowen in litt. 
Crinum augustum. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. Nobis in journ. of science 
and the arts. 3. 1) ide Dom. Roxburgh.) 
above quoted we had adopted C. au- 
gustum as distinct from amabile, on the authority of Dr. 
Roxburgh (the latter plant only being at that time known 
to us by inspection), though in truth we could never 
trace any satisfactory mark of their distinction in the de- 
scriptions by the Doctor. Since then plants of both 
types have been obtained by Lord Caernarvon from the 
Botanic Garden of Calcutta, through the means of Dr. 
Wallich, for the express purpose of ascertaining by inspec- 
