AMARYLLIDACEjE. 
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B. Leaves smooth, flowers middle sized , umbel loose. 
2. Edulis. — Tussac FL des Antill. Alst. Salsilla. Bot. v 
Mag. 39. 1613. Bot. Rep. 649. Vandesia. Salisb. 
Var. 2. grandis. • Specim. Herb. Hooker. Brazil, Mr. 
Booz. Peduncles long, three or four flowered. Sal- 
si lloeides, Martius ap. Schultes. In hedges near 
Rio Janeiro. This is Booz’s plant, certainly not dis- 
tinguishable as a species. The name Salsilloeides, 
being founded on the original error, cannot stand. 
Var. 3. Maranensis. — Specimen Herb. Lindl. Maran- 
hao, Hesketh. Taja de bibro. Leaves 3f inches 
long, not •g- wide, acute, peduncles above two 
inches long, simple, with a diminutive bracte half 
an inch from the base. 
Linnaeus probably confounded this plant with salsilla, 
in consequence of having received some dry specimen at a 
time when salsilla was considered to be the only twining 
Alstrcemeria, and without sufficient examination he sup- 
posed his specimen erroneously to be Feuillet’s plant. The 
tubers are said by Tussac to be eaten in St. Domingo like 
those of the species of sunflower called Jerusalem artichoke. 
It is a stove plant. If Maranensis should prove to have always 
simple peduncles, with such narrow leaves, it must be re- 
moved from its place as a variety of edulis to the second sec- 
tion. I am inclined to separate it. 
Poeppig says he found edulis (salsilla B. M. 1613) fl. Oct. 
Dec. in coppices, S. Chili, 7000 f. alt. Strange, if the W. 
Indian plant be found in such a situation. It was probably 
ovata var. B. M. 2848. 
3. Caraccensis. — PI. 16. f. 2. Specim. Fanning, Herb. 
Lambert, from Caraccas. Leaves smooth, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, six inches long ; peduncles 
about six inches long, two-flowered, branching 
near the end with a small bracte ; involucral 
bractes lanceolate, about 2i inches long ; perianth 
about an inch long, sepals apparently red, petals 
green spotted. It must be closely allied to edulis, 
and may perhaps be more properly called a variety 
of it. 
C. Leaves smooth, flowers large, umbel crowded. 
4. Formosissima. — PI. 14. f. 4. Ruiz, Specim. Herb. 
Lambert. Als. formosissima, Flor. Per. 3. 64. t. 296. 
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