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Bomarea salsilla. — I mentioned (p. 110) that this plant differed from 
the other Bomareas I had seen, in a very decided flexion of the filaments, 
but that its half-ripe capsule seemed conformable with theirs. I have 
now its ripe seeds before me, and they differ materially from those of hir- 
tella and acutifolia. They have no soft pulp, but a tight coat, not easily 
separable, but minutely wrinkled, with a very prominent loose wrinkled 
raphe and chalaza. We do not possess a sufficient number of Bomareas to 
be able to trace out these diversities. 
Hymenocallis expansa : var. stricta. Foliis erectioribus superne la- 
tioribus, floribus erectioribus laciniis angustis. Leaves above the middle 
2§ths of an inch wide, more erect, but equally acute; flowers 11, more 
upright; tube 4 inches, limb \ of an inch shorter, just exceeding the style, 
li longer than the filaments, segments only ^ths wide, cup fths long, con- 
stricted at the base, margin denticulate. 
Hymenocallis Caribea, v. prineeps, has the anthers deeper coloured 
than v. cinerascens. 
The delay which has taken place in the publication of this volume, the 
plates not having been ready, has enabled me to clear up some obscure 
points concerning the Narcisse^e. The stature of A. nanus, Ham. is more 
erect than that of minor, but it has, like v. prineeps and humilior, the 
tube \ inch long, the cup Tilths, and the limb shorter than the cup, the style 
half an inch shorter. It may be called v. altior ; nanus will not do. 
Festalis, Salisb. pi. 43. f. 3. differs only in having a narrower leaf. I have 
never had pumilus and cuneifolius ; they may perhaps form a separate 
diminutive species. I find unrecorded differences which I had not antici- 
pated in the sulphurescent species, and, with me, the tube of tortuosus, 
unless there be two varieties of it, scarcely loses the yellow from the end 
of the cup. The superior breadth of the leaf of Sabinianus is an additional 
proof that it is a genuine species. I arrange the genus thus: 1. Pseudo- 
narcissus. Closely allied to minor Corona, lutea limbum pallidiorem 
cequans , stylo semunciam longior ; Jilamenta. ( uti in 2 et 3) prope basin 
incequaliter adnata. Cup yellow, equal to the paler limb, £ inch longer 
than the style ; filaments (as also in 2 and 3) adnate unequally near the 
base. 1. Ryticarpus ; 2. nobilis ; 3. Telamonius. Festalis, pi. 43. f. 3. 
belongs to minor, on account of the excess of the cup. The other varieties 
I have not examined. — 2. Minor. Corona lutea limbum pallidiorem su- 
perans, stylo semunc. longior. Cup yellow, exceeding the paler limb, 
| inch longer than the style. 1. prineeps ; 2. humilior; minimus, Ham. 
Leaves a little shorter, cup deeper, and limb shorter, but the difference 
scarcely worth remarking. 3. altior ; nanus , Haw. scape 8 inches ; 
leaves less tortuous, fths wide; 4. ? cuneifolius ; o. ? pumilus. — 3. Lu- 
teus. Corona lutea limbum concolorem fere parum superans, stylo § unc. 
vel ultra longior. Cup yellow, a little exceeding the limb, yellow also, 
fths of an inch or more longer than the style. 1. maximus ; 2. major; 
3. propinquus ; 4. obvallaris. I have not examined the last. — 3. Tub^e- 
florus. Corona lutea limb, pallidiss. cequans , stylo J unc. longior ; Jil. 
basi ipsi adnata. Cup yellow, equal to the very pale limb, gth of an inch 
longer than the style. 1. prineeps; 2. crenulatus. — 5. Bicolor. Cor. 
lutea limbum pallidiss. cequans , stylo f unc. longior ; Jil. prope basin 
cequaliter J'ere adnata. Cup yellow, equal to the very pale limb, \ longer 
than the style ; filaments adnate near the base almost equally. 1. lori- 
folius; 2. breviflos ; 3. an ceps. — 6. Tortuosus. Cor . citrine, colore serius 
obsolescente limbum subalbescentem superans, antheris g, stylo | longior ; 
Jil. i-A a basi adnata. Cup lemon, fading late and imperfectly to sulphu- 
