200 THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, . 
Bomarea—continued. 
raised in a warm house without difficulty. They germi- 
nate in a few weeks; and when the young plants are 2in. 
or 3in. high, they should be placed separately in small 
pots, shifting them on as necessary, or planting them out. 
In favoured southern localities, several species have proved 
hardy, but they are muth the best when grown in a green- 
house. 
B. acutifolia Ehren 
undulate, outer segments dee 
and spotted. Spring. J. lanceolate acute, smooth, Mexico, 1878. 
(B. M. 6444). 
1 
B. Caldasiana (Caldas’s).* fi. orange pen, paed crimson. | 
(Ehrenberg’s acute-leaved). fl. 
orange, the inner ones paler 
l. ovate-lanceolate, acute. Peruvian Andes, 1 
B. Carderi (Carder’s).* fl. 2hin. long by lgin. in breadth at the 
widest part, regularly bell-shaped, with six segments, the three 
outer rose-coloured, the three inner nearly equal in length, crenu- 
late, and spotted with purplish-brown ; inflorescence pendulous, 
and consisting of a large terminal umbellate cyme, surrounded 
at the base by a series of crowded leaves. J. oblong lanceolate, 
acuminate, about 7in. by 2}in. Columbia, 1876. See Fig. 262, for 
which we are indebted to Mr. Bull. 
B. chontalensis (Chontalese). fl. lin. long, sub-campanulate, 
obtusely trigonous ; outer segments thick, fleshy, wavy, rose-red, 
with afew brown spots round the margin at the tip, very convex ; 
inner segments a little shorter, pale yellow blotched with brown ; 
umbels surrounded by a whorl of leaves, and composed of several 
gwar each bearing four to six nodding flowers. August. 
@. a or ovate oblong, acuminate. Nicaragua, 1871. 
B. conferta (dense-flowered).* A synonym of B. patococensis. 
B. edulis (edible). fl., outer segments rose, green tipped ; inner 
spotted with rose. St. Domingo, &c. One of the oldest species 
in cultivation. The tubers are said by Tussac to be eaten in St. 
Domingo, like those of the Jerusalem Artichoke. See Fig. 263. 
B. frondea (leafy). fl. 2in. long, tubulate-campanulate ; outer 
segments narrow, oblong, yellow; inner segments żin. longer than 
the outer ones, canari ge spotted with red; cymes umbel- 
many-flowered, ut 8in. across, base leafy. lanceolate, 
Bogota, 1881. (G. C. n. s. 17, p. 669.) 
oligantha (few-flowered).* fl ly funnel- shaped, 
about lin. long; outer segments slightly shorter than the 
inner, oblanceolate, under łin. abroad, obtuse, unspotted, 
reddish on the outside, yellow within; one or two to an 
umbel, on simple, flexuous, glabrous dicels, about lin. 
long. l. long, acute, about 2in. long, bright green on the 
La ciliated on the ribs beneath. Peru, 1877. See 
acuminate, 
{Patococha). fl. 2in. to 2hin. long, elongate- 
pa 
funnel-shaped ; the three outer segments ovate lanceolate, about 
one-fourth shorter than the inner segments, both of a rich crimson 
colour; numerously borne in drooping, contracted tufts at the 
Fic. 263. FLOWERING BRANCH OF BOMAREA EDULIS, 
Bomarea—continued. 
ends of the shoots; peduncles about 2in. to 2}in. long, intermixed 
` at the base with broadly ovate-acute, leafy bracts. August and 
Fig. 264. FLOWERING BrancH OF BOMAREA OLIGANTHA. 
September. J. scattered, shortly stalked, broadly lanceolate, tail 
pointed. Bogota, 1881. (G. C. n. s. 17, p. 187.) 
B. salsilla (Salsilla). #. purple, about jin. long, the two inner 
segments having a darker spot at the base, and all of them tinged 
with green towards the points ; collected 
into a terminal umbel. June. l. few, 
lanceolate. South America, 1806. This 
has proved quite hardy under various 
conditions. 
B. Shuttleworthii (Shuttleworth’s).* 
ji, perianth about 2in. long, funnel- 
shaped or elongate bell-shaped; seg- 
ments nearly equal, oblong acute, outer 
ones orange vermilion, slightly tinged 
with green and dotted with small dark 
at the tips; cymes umbellate, pendu- 
lous. J. ovate lanceolate, Sin. to 6in. by 
2in., gape Bogota, 1881. (G. C. 
n. s. 17, p. 77.) 
illiams’s).* (fl. rose- 
B. eae about bg long, elongate fun- 
nel shape; disposed in a compound 
umbellate cyme. J. lanceolate, very 
acute, and tapering to a very short 
twisted petiole. New Grenada, 1882. 
BOMBACES. A division of 
Sterculiacee. 
<- . BOMBAX (from bombaz, one of 
the Greek names for cotton; the 
pods are filled with a fine silky sub- 
stance like cotton, but which it is 
impossible to spin into thread, in 
consequence of the edges being per- 
fectly smooth). Silk Cotton Tree. 
ORD. Malwvacee. ` A genus, of large 
soft-wooded stove trees. Flowers 
