BULBOUS PLANTS 



ALLIUM ANCEPS, Kellogg. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6227. 



An inhabitant of the Sierra Nevada portion of the Eocky Mountains, 

 at elevations of 4,000-5,000 ft. Bulbs received proved quite hardy in 

 England, and flowered in the open in May 1875. 

 From these the plate in the Botanical Magazine (I.e. supra) was prepared. 



ALSTECEMEEIA INODOEA, Herb. 



Syns. A. nemorosa, Gardn. 



Bot. Mag. t. 3958 ; Herbert's AmaryllidaceaD, p. 90, t. 2, fig. 1. 



Introduced from the Organ Mountains of Brazil through William Lobb, 



and first flowered under glass during the winter of 1841-1842, at Exeter. 



The flowers, in loose clusters at the end of long stems, yellow and 



margined with red, have dark markings on the three inner floral segments. 



BLANDFOEDIA AUEEA, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5809; Fl. Mag. 1867, t. 403; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1870, p. 5, fig.; PI. and 



Pom. 1872, p. 113. 



This, the sixth species of the Australian genus Blandfordia introduced, 

 was imported from New South Wales and flowered for the first time in 

 this country at Chelsea in July 1869. 



A cool greenhouse evergreen plant with narrow linear bluish-green 

 leaves from the base of which the flower-scape rises from 1 to 2 ft. in 

 height, bearing at the apex umbellate clusters of from three to five pure 

 golden-yellow bell-shaped drooping flowers. 



BOMAEEA ANDINAMAECANA, Baker. 



Syns. Collania andinamarcana, Herb. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4247; Gard. Chron. 1846, p. 54 (Notice of Exhibition of New Plants). 



Originally gathered by Mr. Mathews on the lofty mountains of Andina- 

 marca in Peru, and from his dried specimens described by Dean Herbert 

 for the first time. 



William Lobb collected seed in the locality where the bulb was first 

 detected, and from these, plants raised flowered for the first time in April 

 1846. 



It is a singular-looking object with a climbing stem terminating in a 



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