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AMARYLLIDACE.E. 
Alst. grandiflora. Herb. Hooker. Stalks 3-4 feet 
high, numerous, round, smooth ; leaves 4 inches 
long, more or less, £ wide, crowded, attenuated at 
each end, ensiform or falcate, blueish green, lighter 
beneath, strongly nerved ; involucral bractes much 
wider, darker green, more densely nerved, nume- 
rous (sometimes lb); perianth pendulous, pale 
yellow tinged with green, petals not spotted ; fila- 
ments longer than the perianth, style still longer, 
stigma trifid; flowers 1 to many; root thick 
fibrous (growing at the foot of a shrub, or on the 
side of a rocky precipice). Found near Culluay ? 
and St. Mateo in November. Specimens, Matthews, 
863. Herb. Lambert, and Herb. Lindl. In the 
former, the involucral bractes are much narrower. 
2. Dulcis. — PI. 7. fig. 1 — 9. Alstr. dulcis. Hooker B. 
Misc. Alst. uniflora. Matthews MS. Stalk 5-14 
inches, smooth; leaves suberect, |-1^ inch long, a 
line wide, margins reflex, glaucous green, glossy ; 
peduncles one or two, 1-2 flowered ; perianth near 
sepals light red, tint between crimson and scar- 
let, tipped with green ; petals yellower with more 
green, and a border of yellow speckled. Flowers 
generally solitary, sometimes four. This plant is 
called Campanillas coloradas, and the fruit is 
sweet and agreeable to the taste, and much sought 
by children, “ the seeds being enveloped in a red- 
dish gelatinous substance by which I understand 
that it has a pulpaceous pericarp, as the case is 
with Tamus and Hsemanthus. It grows beneath 
rocks at Huayllay, near Pasco, at an elevation of 
from 12 to 14,000 feet. It appears (see fig. 2.) to 
have a creeping rootstalk with* small pyriform 
tubers appended. 
3. Glaucescens. — PI. 10. fig. 1, 2. Specim. Jamieson. 
Herb. Hooker. Paramo of Cayambe. Alst. Glau- 
cescens. II. and B. Kunth, 3. 282. Stalk 1-2 feet 
high ; leaves numerous, erect, lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, sessile, rigid, glaucous, downy underneath, 
1^-2 inches long or less, pressed close to the stalk, 
the upper widest; involucral leaves widest; pe- 
duncles 4-6, half an inch long, smooth, with shorter 
