Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

TAR. 6483.
CRINUM PODOPHYLLusr.
Native of Old Calabar.
Nat. Ord. AMABTLLIDACR^:.•Sub-order AMAKYLLIDK^.
Genus CBINUM, Linn.; (Kunth. Enum. vol. v. p. 547.)
CBTNUM podophyllum ; bulbo parvo ovoideo, eolio nullo modo producto, foliis 5-6
lanceolatis subpedalibus medio l|-2 poli, latís deorsum in petiolum brevem
canaliculatum angustatis margine obscure ciliatis, scapo laterali ancipiti vix
pedali, spathse valvis lanceolatis, floribus paucis perfecte sessilibus 8•9 poli,
longis, tubo cylindrico erecto ápice curvato, limbi horizontalis segmentis
oblanceolato-oblongis acutis tubo duplo brevioribus albis extus viridi tinctis
prseter apicem diu conniventibus, staminibus declinatis limbo paulo brevioribus,
antheris magnis polline lúteo, stigmate capitato.
This new Crimim, in its spreading undulated leaves and
dwarf stature most resembles G. Gareyanum (Bot. Mag.
tab. 2466), but in its very long tube and fewer flowers
comes nearer its geographical ally G. giganteum (Bot. Mag.
tab. Ô205). The bulbs were sent not long ago from
Old Calabar by the Rev. Hugh Goldie, and it flowered
at Kew for the first time in November, 1879. Probably
under further cultivation the leaves will be larger and the
flowers more numerous than in the specimen drawn.
DESCR. Bulb ovoid, an inch and a half in diameter,
without any produced neck, the outer tunics pale brown.
Leaves five or six in a rosette, cotemporary with the
flowers, lanceolate, thin in texture for the genus and much
undulated, spreading widely, about a foot long, acute, an
inch and a half or two inches broad at the middle, narrowed
gradually into a short deeply-channelled petiole. Scape
ancipitous, lateral, erect, under a foot long. Floivers two
in the specimen drawn, perfectly sessile, almost inodorous,
eight or nine inches long. Spathe-valves two, lanceolate,
green, erect. Ovary oblong. Perianth tube cylindrical,
erect, curved at the top, five or six inches long; limb hori-
MABCH 1ST, 1880.