HORTUS VETTCHII 



much-branched leafy corymb, pendant from the weight of the flowers, 

 remarkable for their coloration, the three outer perianth pieces orange- 

 red tipped with black, the three inner yellow flaked green, and the centre 

 a tuft of golden-yellow anthers. 



BOMAEEA CALDASIANA, Herb. 

 Syns. Alstrcemeria Caldasii, Humb. & Rth. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5442. 



A lovely species first discovered on the Quitinian Andes by Humboldt 

 and Bonpland, and later introduced from the same locality through 

 Eichard Pearce. 



The climbing stems, terminated by drooping umbels of bright orange- 

 yellow flowers, are thickly spotted with reddish-brown. 



BOMAEEA MULTIPLOEA, Mirb. 



Fl. des Serres, t. 2316 ; The Florist, 1864, p. 97, col. pi. ; Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 627 

 (Eeport of Exhibition of New Plants). 



A greenhouse climber with lance-shaped leaves and terminal umbels of 

 handsome, drooping, orange-red flowers dotted inside with crimson. 

 A native of Peru, introduced through Eichard Pearce. 



BOMAEEA TOMENTOSA, Herb. 



Syns. B. densiflora, Herb. ; Alstrcemeria densiflora, Herb. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5531 ; Herbert's Aniaryllidacege, p. 399, t. 46, fig. 4. 



A richly-coloured Peruvian species, originally described by Dean Herbert 

 from specimens collected by Mathews in the vicinity of Chachapoyas in 

 Peru, and introduced to cultivation from the same locality by Eichard 

 Pearce. 



The bright red flowers, dotted black in the throat of the perianth-tube, 

 are in dense umbels terminating twining stems. 



CEINUM PUEPUEASCENS, Herb. 



Syns. C. bracteatum, var. purpurescens. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6525 ; Fl. and Pom. 1879, p. 108, fig. 



A very distinct Crinum of the star-flowered set, native of West Tropical 

 Africa, from Old Calabar by Kalbreyer. It had previously been sent to 

 this country by the Eev. H. Goldie. 



The flowers white, tinted with rose, on purple foot-stalks, have con- 

 spicuous purplish-crimson stamens, terminated by yellow anthers. 



EUCOMIS BICOLOE, Baker. 



Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, vol. x. p. 492; Bot. Mag. t. 6816; W. W. in The Garden, 



1893, vol. xliii. p. 185. 



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