the numerous species that belong to and are connected with 
the genus Bomarea, to be certain whether Collania and 
Spherine should be considered as separate genera or very 
marked sections or subgenera. The stalks of t'is plant are 
about a foot high, erect, with a little tortuosity, but not 
prehensile; and it seems that those of the much finer Col- 
lania Andimarcana, lately raised from seed by Mr. Veitch, 
have a similar tortuosity without being prehensile. The 
stems of C. involucrata and glauca appear, from the dry 
specimens, to be much more rigid and not tortuous, but the 
inflorescence decurved. I have, however, lately received from 
Mr. Maclean specimens of a remarkable Collania, which he 
had lately discovered on the Bolivian Andes, with a very 
short erect rigid stalk, and the inflorescence, which consisted 
of several large flowers, (seemingly red and yellow) quite 
erect. I do not think the posture had been altered in drying 
the specimens, and I propose to call the plant Collania 
stricta. I learnt from Mr. Maclean that some of the gigantic 
Bomareas, which have not been introduced into this country, 
especially one superb species which I described in the Appen- 
dix to the Botanical Register, growing on the side of the road 
to Vitoc from Lima, do not twine, but run up amongst the 
branches to the top of a tree, and hang down from thence 
with a pendulous umbel. Bomarea salsilla (oculata of some) 
differs from the larger Bomareas of the middle size both in 
the seed and the curvature of the anthers, and the genus, 
when thoroughly known, will exhibit some very marked 
diversities. The filaments of Collania dulcis are not at any 
period recurved. One of the seedlings, planted in a protected 
border in front of a greenhouse, lived two years without 
flowering, and died. The other, kept in the greenhouse 
nearly dry after its stalks decay, shoots again in April, and, 
after standing out of doors plunged in a sand- bed during the 
summer, flowers in October or as late as December. It is 
rather capricious, and some of its stalks sometimes die with- 
out an apparent cause, but probably from too much wet.’ 
W. H. 
Fig. 1. represents the petals, stamens, and pistil; 2. shews 
one of the petals seen from the inside. The sepals are entirely 
destitute of a nectarial scale. ; 
It may be as well to observe that this genus Collania is 
entirely different from that so called by Schultes. 
