A stout herb, rootstock bulbous. Leaves fleshy, up to 4 ft. long, linear-oblong.Inflorescence an umbel, emerging from leaf axiles; provided with two spathaceousbracts; stalk compressed, solid; flowers numerous, large, white perianth salver shaped,lobes six, linear; stamens six, often reddish; bracteols liner. (India) A large rosette herb to 1.4m tall. Pseudostem upright which can reach 30cm tall and15cm in diameter. Leaves equitant and spirally arranged; lamina lenear with wavymargins and tapering to a pointed tip, to 1.7m long and 15cm at the widest part,glabrous, leathery and produce connecting thread-like sap when torn. Inflorescence, asimple umbel of 8-12 flowers from the leaf-axil; stalk to 50cm long and 4cm across,oval-shaped in cross section and smooth; involucre 2, thin and papery, each to 5cm x2cm; corolla tabular, light green in clolour, to 12cm long and splits into 6,10cm x6mm, while pendulous lobes; stamens 6, to 8cm long and extended. (Indonesia) A variable herb, 1-1.8m tall, bulb about 5-15cm in diameter, many bulblets present,false stem up to 50cm long, clothed with old leaf sheaths; leaves 20-30, narrowly tobroadly elliptical, 50-150cm x 3.5-20cm, lower horizontal, upper semi-erect, marginsentire, smooth; umbel 10-50-flowered, scape 50-100cm long, bracts 9-16cm x 3-5cm,pale; flowers fragrant at night, corolla tube straight, 8-13cm long, 4-5mm in diameter,lobes lanceolate, 6-12cm x 0.5-1.2cm, white, sometimes pink, pedicel 0.5-2.5cm long,filaments of stamens slender, 3.5-7cm long, anthers straight, 12-25mm long, yellow,turning purple; capsule subglobose, 2.5cm in diameter, beaked, pericarp fleshy,yellowish-green, 1-5-seeded; seed ovoid, often angular. Crinum asiaticum isextremely polymorphic, and found along sandy shores and shaded, humid localities atlow altitudes. The pink-red flowered form was formerly known under the nameCrinum amabile. Crinum asiaticum var. sinicum Baker, St. John’s lily, has largerflowers than the type form, and var. declinatum Baker has deflexed flower buds, andthe tips of the perianth lobes are tinged red. (Malaysia) A large bulbous herb, about 90cm tall with a bulb 5-10cm diameter, narrowed into aneck, l5-30cm long, clothed in old leaf sheaths; leaves simple, 0.9-l.5 rn long, 12.5-l8cm broad, linear-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, flat, narrowed into a sheathing base,thin, bright green with smooth margins; flowers large, white, scented, bisexual,umbelled on a stout, solid scape, arising from axils of old leaves; scape 45-90cm long,2.5cm diameter, compressed; bracts 2. spathiform, 7.5cm long, oblong, acute, papery,bracteoles filiform; umbel 10-50 flowered, somewhat bipartite with a tuft ofbracteoles in the sinus; pcdicels 0.6-2.5cm long, perianth-tube greenish-white, 4-l0cmlong, cylindric, slender; lobes 6, 5-6cm long, 0.5-0.6cm broad, shorter than theperianth-tube, linear, recurved or revolute. stamens 6, inserted on the throat of theperianth, filaments free, very slender, 3-3.5cm long, shorter than perianth-bobes;anthers linear, dorsifixed, reddish, 1.2-1.8cm long; ovary inferior, 1.5-3cm long,oblong, 3-carpellary with a few ovules in each loculus, style filiform, stigma minute,subcapitate; fruit rarely produced, subglobose capsule, 2.5-5cm diameter, 1 or 2-seeded, beaked by the fleshy base of the perianth, dehiscing irregularly.Flowers fromFebruary to May. (Sri Lanka) Stout perennial herb. Rootstock bulbous. Leaves linear, fleshy, about lm. long;margins entire and undulate. Inflorescence in terminal umbel with 2 spathaceousbracts; stalk solid, slightly compressed; flowers large, white, fragrant. Stamens oftenreddish. Fruit subglobose (Vietnam)