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C. zeylanicum (often sold as C. Kirkii). Perhaps the most common of all the crinums, being found in almost every garden, even in the backwoods. The flowers which are intensely fragrant are borne on tall purplish stems. They are deep crimson in the bud state, white with a red stripe, when fully expanded. They usually Sower in June and July after the rainy season has set in. Bears large grayish green fleshy seeds abundantly and is a fine plant to be used in hybridizing. H. Nehrling
C. zeylanicum (often sold as C. Kirkii). Perhaps the most common of all the crinums, being found in almost every garden, even in the backwoods. The flowers which are intensely fragrant are borne on tall purplish stems. They are deep crimson in the bud state, white with a red stripe, when fully expanded. They usually Sower in June and July after the rainy season has set in. Bears large grayish green fleshy seeds abundantly and is a fine plant to be used in hybridizing. H. Nehrling
Crinums hybridize so freely, and the progeny is so likely to be interesting, that many mongrel forms have been recorded under Latin names. It is not feasible to account for all such names here. Many of the forms are soon lost.—C. Lugardae, N. E. Br. Bulb small: Lvs .long and narrow, rough-edged; fls.2-6, the peduncle1ft. or less high; tube nearly or quite 4in.long;segms.lanceolate, about or nearly as long as tube, white with light pink median stripe. Trop. Afr.—C. natans. Baker. Allied to C. purpurascens, but aquatic, the 20 or so strap-shaped undulate Lvs. submerged: bulb small, narrow-ovoid, with many long fibrous roots: fls. few, white, the narrow segms. recurved. Upper Guinea. B.M. 7862.—C. rhodanthum, Baker. Lvs. lorate, exceeding 1 ft., thick, ciliate- edged: fls. many; tube 3 in. long; segms. red, lanceolate, 2½ in. long, erect-spreading and curved in upper part; stamens as long as segms., the filaments red. Cent. Afr. G.C. III. 33:315. —C. Samuelii, Worsley. Bulb 3 in. diam. and 2½ in. long: Lvs. sometimes 4 ft. long, rough-edged: fls. 2, sessile, on peduncle 1 ft. high, white slightly flushed with pink, not fragrant, 4½. in. across. Cent. Afr.—C. Vassei, Boiss. Bulb ovoid, 4 in. across, without distinct neck: Lvs. linear-lorate, 2 ft. or less long, 2 in. broad, rough-edged: fls. about 15, on peduncle I ft. or less high, white with red median stripes; perianth funnel-shaped, 8 in. long, the tube curved and red, the segms. linear-lanceolate, and a little shorter than tube. Mozambique. R.H. 1908: 132.— C. Wimbushii, Worsley. Differs from C. Samuelii in lvs. not rough-edged, fls. on short pedicels, faintly fragrant, less lasting and with longer style. Cent. Afr.—C. Zanzibarense, Hort.= (?).L. H. B.
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