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AMARYLLIDACE2E. 
wrinkled, rough ; seeds roundish, obovate, red, 
(nestling in pulp ?) In the woods near Munna, as 
well as the last. 
Ruiz’s descriptions appear to me generally accurate, but 
the figures in his work the very reverse : I think, however, 
that he was probably wrong in saying that the seeds nestle 
in pulp, which is the true definition of a berry, as that of a 
currant, &c. ; but I have found no berry in this order. 
Whether the seed, like Bomarea, or the pericarp, like 
Tamus and Haemanthus, has a pulpaceous coat, remains 
doubtful. 
3. Coccinea. — PI. 16. fig. 1. Alst. Coccinea. Flor. Peruv. 
3. 62. t. 291. Stalk 3 feet high, with ovate scales 
below the middle, flexible upwards ; leaves alter- 
nate, villous underneath, smaller near the summit, 
2 opposite at top ; bractes none ; peduncles villous, 
two inches long; perianth half an inch long; sepals 
oblong, scarlet with a green tip, petals cuneiform, 
greenish yellow with purple spots ; capsule downy, 
oval, not dehiscent ; (seeds nestling in pulp ?) In 
the woods of Huassahuassi, Peru. The outlines 
I have given of this, and the capsule of secundi- 
folia, are taken from the Flor. Peruv. I have seen 
no specimen of Coccinea. 
4. Nervosa. — PL 13. Spec, alterum. Matthews, 1661. 
Herb. Hooker. Leaves alternate, 4-41 inches long, 
ovate, lanceolate, acutely attenuated, f wide ; 29 
principal nerves equal, with a like number of alter- 
nate inferior ones ; two upper leaves opposite, and 
two opposite bracte-like leaves much smaller, half 
an inch above ; interior bractes filiform; peduncles 
19-20, 1 \ inch long, downy; germ downy; perianth 
half an inch long (seemingly red, yellow, and 
green). 
5. Brevis.— PI. 18. fig. 1. Spec. Matthews, Peru, 1660. 
Herb. Hooker. Stalk 14 inches, a little spiral near 
the top ; the lower half scaled, the lower leaves 
less ; leaves lance-oval, attenuated at the base, 
strongly nerved underneath, three inches or more 
• long, half an inch wide, alternate, two upper oppo- 
site, and two smaller bracte-like leaves* above oppo- 
site ; interior bractes small; peduncles three, f of 
