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AM ARYLLIDACE.E. 
quainted with so few of the species in a fresh state, that I 
cannot properly investigate this feature. In the Alstrce- 
merieae, the filaments seem to change their altitude so much 
at different periods, that it is difficult to assign a posture to 
them. The capsule of Salsilla agrees with that of Hirtella 
and acutifolia. I have not seen its ripe seed. 
§. 1. Peduncles two-flowered or more. 
§§. Perianth nearly equal. 
A. Leaves smooth , flowers about half an inch long , crowded. 
1. Salsilla. — Feuillet Obs. 2. 713. t. 6. var. 1. obtusa. 
Alst. oculata. Bot. Mag. 61. 3344. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t. 1851. 
Var. 2. Prsecipua. — Plate 16. fig. 4. foliis majoribus. 
Herb. Hooker. Cumming, 345. Valparaiso. 
Var. 3. Subfalcata. — PI. 16. fig. 5. Herb. Hooker. Cruik- 
shank, 33. Chili, Herb. Hooker. Cumming, 345. 
Herb. Lindl. 
Flowers purple with a dark eye-like spot on the lower 
part of the two upper petals, and a paler one on the lowest. 
It has a strong flexion of the filaments. Salsilla was first 
figured and described by Feuillet together with Alst. ligtu and 
peregrina, all three stated to be Chilian plants. By a strange 
mistake, when Bomarea edulis and Alst. caryophyllaea, both 
tender tropical plants, were brought from the East coast and 
West Indies, they were confounded with Salsilla and Alst. 
ligtu, and have usurped their names in our stoves and in 
modern botanical works. It so happens that, numerous as 
the genus Bomarea is in the higher latitudes, not a single 
species, except Salsilla, and Ovata var., has been discovered 
in Chili, unless the specimens in Professor Lindley’s herba- 
rium from Conception, gathered by Macrae in 1825, with 
the flowers not blown, and varying in leaf from lanceolate- 
acute to lance-ovate, be B. glomerata, which is a Peruvian 
species, and approaches to Salsilla in leaf. It is quite cer- 
tain that the edulis of Tussac, which has usurped the name, 
is quite distinct from Feuillet's plant, and the original name 
must be restored to the Chilian twiner, which has been since 
figured as oculata. The name oculata is therefore to be alto- 
gether expunged. B. salsilla is a hardy greenhouse plant, 
of which the seedlings vary very much in brightness of colour 
and in leaf. I have not found Salsida amongst the Peruvian 
specimens. 
