Tas. 7247. 
BOMAREA rronpea. 
Native of the Columbian Andes, 
Nat. Ord. AMaRYLLIpES. Tribe ALSTROMERIER. 
‘Genus Bomarga, Mirbel ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 736.) 
Bomarea frondea ; caule elongato sarmentoso pubescente, foliis patulis laxe 
dispositis lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis dorso pubescenti- 
bus, umbellis simplicibus densis multifloris, bracteis parvis ovatis, pedi- 
cellis pubescentibus flore brevioribus, perianthii anguste infundibulari 
splendide luteo segmentis inaquilongis, exterioribus oblanceolato- 
oblongis immaculatis dorso rubro-brunneo tinctis, interioribus longioribus 
intus rubro-brunneo punctatis apice latis truncatis minute cuspidatis in 
unguem sensim attenuatis, genitalibus perianthio subquilongis. 
B. frondea, Masters in Gard. Chron. n.s. vol. xvi. p. 669, fig. 102; Baker 
Handb. Amaryl. p. 157. 
The present is one of the finest of all the species of this 
Jarge genus that have been introduced into cultivation. 
Eighty species are now known, which fall into two main 
groups as regards inflorescence, one of which has simple and 
the other compound umbels; and two groups as regards 
the structure of the perianth, in one of which the segments 
of the inner row scarcely exceed those of the outer row in 
length, and the other in which they are decidedly longer. _ 
Our present plant has simple umbels and unequal perianth- 
segments. Its nearest ally amongst the plants previously 
known in cultivation is B. Caldasiana, Herb. (Alstromeria 
Caldasii, Bot. Mag. t. 5442). Like that species it has the 
valuable habit of remaining in flower for many months at a 
time, the stems sending out successive clusters of flowers. 
It inhabits the woods of the western slopes of the Andes 
of Columbia at an altitude of from six thousand to ten 
thousand feet above sea-level. It has been collected in a 
wild state by Holton, Schlim, Triana and Lehmann, and 
was introduced into cultivation by Messrs. Shuttleworth 
and Carder in 1882. Our drawing was made from a plant 
which they presented to the Royal Gardens, which was in 
Aveust Ist, 1892. 
