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difference will be found at the base of the style, and that the 
(jennen is much less operculate ; but that is conjectural. 
1. Distychophylla. — PI. 12. f. 3.4. Specim. Ruiz. Herb. 
Lambert. Alstr. distychifolia. Flor. Peruv. 3. 60. 
sed non t. 287. fig. pessima ex Bomarese tomen- 
tosse var. Pangoensi, vel. B. setacea, conflata. — 
Stalk solitary, filiform, 2 feet high ; leaves 2^ to 
above 3 inches long, about § wide, lance-oval, with 
five hard nerves and six pair of weaker interme- 
diate nerves, alternate, two usually opposite at the 
summit; petiole about ^ long; the lower leaves 
less ; involucral bracte one or more, subulate, small; 
peduncles 3-6, \ an inch to 1^ long; perianth \ an 
inch long, purplish red ; petals a little wider, blunt, 
with a small point ; capsule ovate, obtusely trian- 
gular, furrows neai’ly obsolete, not dehiscent; 
seeds roundish, yellow, with little pulp. In the 
woods of the Peruvian Andes, in the high cold 
mountains of Munna. The name distychifolia 
being a compound of Greek and Latin, is neces- 
sarily corrected. Ruiz’s specimens of distycho- 
phylla, in Mr. Lambert’s herbarium, were con- 
founded by him with specimens of Bomarea setacea, 
and the figure in the Flora Peruviana, which does 
not agree with the description, has been taken from 
a wrong specimen, and does not represent the plant 
of which it bears the name. 
2. Secundifolia. — PI. 12. f. 1.2. 5. Spec. Ruiz, Herb. 
Lambert. Alst. secundifolia, Flor. Per. 3. 60. t. 290. 
Stalk solitary, filiform, two feet high, glabrous, 
pendulous ; leaves alternate, 1^ palm long, 1 inch 
wide (in the specimen there are two opposite at 
the top, which seems usual in this genus, near 3^ 
long, wide, much less ovate) ; the inferior 
smaller, underneath downy; peduncles 4-6, 1^ 
inch long; involucral bractes small, subulate; 
perianth f long an inch, Ruiz in the text, 
wrong) ; sepals downy without, purplish red, obo- 
vate, a little widest; petals cuneiform, yellow witli 
black spots and a green tip ; gennen and stigma 
doivny; capsule hexangularly oblong, with the 
alternate angles fainter, not dehiscent, yellow, 
