Crinum asiaticum L.

No botanical uses.

11783. Crinum asiaticum binn* Solitary plants la
rich humus covered soil of a well shaded ridge at 2750
feet between the junction of the Parak creek and the Sibulan
river; aerial stem 1 foot long» strict, 4 inches thick,
terete, yellowish gray; leaves many, rotately spreading,
ascendingly recurved, WMmxtM&MKk succulent, deep dull green
above, paler beneath# deeply grooved toward the base, the
margins coarsely wavy from below the middle; inflorescence
terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, erect, 7 to 3
feet long, stalk brownish red, flattened, 1 inch wide, 1/2
inch thick; sheath spfeit into S equal parts, 6 inches long«
deep brownish red; ovary brown, subterete. ascendings 1>4nch
long; calyx or perianth tube subterete, greenish, o inches
longs segments 3 inches long, white; filaments and style
red; flowers slightly but sweetly fragrant; «Bacong*; fruit
flattlsh 1 1/8 inch across, smooth,
September, 1909«
“Wffis if® NOTES
AMARYOXDACEAE
CRINUM Linnaeus
Haemanthus pubescens Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 253, non Linn. f.=
Crinum giganteum Blanco op. cit, ed. 2 (1845) 175; ed. 3, 1 (1877)
315, non Andr.=CRINUM ASIATICUM Linn.
CRINUM ASIATICUM Blanco op. cit. 251; 175; 314, t. 168.
Crinum asiaticum Linn, is exceedingly variable in size, depend-
ing on the age of the plant, its habitat, etc. It is common and
widely distributed througout the Philippines along the seashore.
Haemanthus pubescens Blanco=Crinum giganteum Blanco,
was correctly reduced by Naves in the Novissima Appendix to
the third edition of Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas. Naves, how-
ever, reduced Crinum asiaticum Blanco to C. gracile E. Mey., an
endemic sylvan Philippine species. The description is short and
imperfect, but from the fact that Blanco’s material came from
Mandaloyon near Manila, the probabilities are very great that
he had merely a dwarfed form of the Linnean species; certainly
not C. gracile E. Mey. It is universally known as bacong in the
Philippines.
Illustrative specimen from Lamao, Bataan Province, Luzon,
April, 1915 (Mtrriil: Species Blamcoanae No. 935) .
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SPECIES J3LANCÜANÁE Nf>.
935* Grinum asiaticum Linn.;
Blanco
Haemanthus pubescens Blanco,
non Linn, f•
Orinum giganteum Blanco, non
And r •
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