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TAB. 6525.
CRINUM PURPURASCENS.
Native of West Tropical África.
Nat. Ord. ÄMABYLLIDACE.E.•Tribe AMABYLIIDE-E.
Genus CBINUM, Linn, ; {Kunth JEnum. vol. v. p. 547.)
CBINUM purpurascens ; bulbo parvo ovoideo brevicollo copióse stolonifero, foliis
multis loratis patulis angustis undulatis 1^-2-pedalibus, scapo gracili foliis
duplo breviori, umbellis sessilibus 6-10-floris, spathae valvis deltoideis, floribus
erectis albis extus purpurascentibus, tubo gracili 5-6-pollicari, segmentis
oblanceolatis acutis recurvatis tubo duplo brevioribus, filamentis arcuatis
saturate rubellis limbo distincte brevioribus, stylo filamentos superante stigmate
minuto capitato.
C. purpurascens, Herb. Amaryll. p. 250 ; Hoem. Amaryll. p. 72 ; Kunth Enum.
vol. v. p. 554.
This is a very distinct Crinum of the star-flowered set
from West Tropical Africa, remarkable for its dwarf slender
habit and very numerous spreading narrow undulated
leaves. Its alliance is with the Himalayan G. amcenum and
pratense, and the New World G. americanum and erubescens.
It was introduced in the time of Dean Herbert, and is
carefully described in his classical work on the Amarylli-
daceaa, but has never been previously figured. Our drawing
was made from a plant that flowered at Kew in June, 1879,
the bulb of which was sent by the Rev. H. Goldie, and we
have since had it from Messrs. Veitch, from bulbs brought
home by Mr. Kalbreyer. It grows at a low level by the
side of streams about Fernando Po and in Old Calabar,
and, of course, requires stove-heat for its successful
cultivation.
DESOR. Bulb ovoid, about two inches in diameter, with a
short neck, and copious stolons. Leaves twenty or thirty,
cotemporary with the flowers, spreading, lorate, one and a
half or two feet long at the flowering-time, an inch broad,
XOVEMBEE 1ST, 1880.