Tas. 6692. 
BOMAREA patacocensis. 
Native of Ecuador. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe ALSTR@MERIER. 
Genus Bomarga, Mirb. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 736.) 
BomarEa patacocensis; caule tereti bracteis pedicellisque pubescentibus, foliis 
lanceolatis acuminatis superne glabris subtus puberulis, petiolo brevi torto, 
bracteis lineari-oblongis obtusis v. acutis pedicellis brevioribus, floribus nume- 
rosissimis subumbellatis confertissimis, pedicellis gracilibus 2-23 pollicaribus, 
floribus 24-pollicaribus coccineis, perianthii regularis segmentis exterioribus 
lineari-oblongis obtusis, exterioribus longioribus spathulatis. 
B. patacocensis, Herbert, Amaryllid, p. 120, t. 14; Kunth. Enum. Pl. vol. v. | 
p- 814. 
B. conferta, Benth. Plant. Hartweg. p. 259; Walp. Ann. vol. i. p. 837; Masters 
in Gard. Chron. 1881, p. 330, and 1882, p. 186, f. 31. 
This noble plant was discovered by the late Colonel Hall 
in Ecuador at a place called Patacocha, alt. 6000 feet, 
which I do not find on any map accessible to me; and was 
described by the late Dean Herbert in his classical work on 
the Amaryllides, published in 1837. It was subsequently 
collected by Hartweg in the Western flanks of Pichincha, 
and published by Bentham, who could not have seen Hall’s 
specimen, as B. conferta. It is probably a common plant 
in the Quitenian Andes, for Jameson, in his Herbarium of 
Keuador plants, states that it grows in various wooded 
localities of the temperate region of the Andes, at an eleva- 
tion of 8000 feet. From B. pardina, Herb., with which 
Bentham compares it, it differs in the much narrower 
leaves, longer pedicels, and larger bracts. The plant 
alluded to by Baker in the “ London Journal of Botany 
(1882, p. 205), under B. conferta, from the Andes of Quito, 
collected by M. André, and which has orange-coloured 
outer perianth segments and yellow inner ones spotted with 
dark violet, can hardly be this species. 
B. patacocensis flowered in the Royal Gardens in October 
JUNE Ist, 1883. 
