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COLLANIA dulcis. 
Sweet Collania. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEA. (AMARYLLIDS, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 155.) 
COLLANIA, Herbert Amaryllid. p. 103. nec Schultes. 
C. dulcis; caule erecto filiformi flexuoso, foliis oblongis glaucis obtusis basi 
angustatis, floribus 1-4 pendulis cylindraceis. 
Alstromeria dulcis, ** Hooker Bot. Misc." 
C. dulcis, Herbert Amaryllid. p. 104. 
For the opportunity of publishing this rare plant we are 
indebted to our kind correspondent the Dean of Manchester, 
with whom it flowered in August, 1846. 
In the **Amaryllidacee" it is said to be a native of 
Huallay, near Pasco, in Peru, at a height of from twelve to 
fourteen thousand feet above the sea, and to be called by the 
country people Campanillas coloradas. We have received the 
following memorandum from the Dean of Manchester on the 
subject, from which will be seen his present views respecting 
the plant. 
** [ have little to add to what is said concerning Collania 
dulcis in my Amaryllidacez, to which I have not access at 
the present moment. The name dulcis was suggested in Sir 
W. J. Hooker's Herbarium, where it is stated that on the 
Andes of Bolivia the children gather its capsules to eat, on 
account of their sweet pulp. This plant was raised from 
seed in some capsules which were very mouldy, sent to me by 
J. Maclean, Esq., from Lima. The capsules exhibited no 
appearance of the sweet pulp, which was quite absorbed. 
The genus Collania was distinguished by me from Bomarea 
by the great prominence of the operculum of the germen, 
making it to be at least semisuperior instead of inferior, and 
the seeming coincidence of that feature and the alleged sweet 
pulp, with a rigid erect stalk curved downwards so as to have 
the inflorescence drooping. It is, however, impossible, from 
dried specimens, and without knowing the peculiarities of all 
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