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Bomarea (Supplement)

Upwards of fifty species, all American, have been referred to this genus. To those described on p. 200, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. Kalbreyeri (Kalbreyer's). fl. pedicellate, in large, terminal umbels, the three outer segments brick-red, about 1in. long, oblong-spathulate, the three inner ones orange-yellow, spotted red, longer than the outer ones, obovate-cuneate. l. shortly stalked, oblong, acuminate, glabrous above, downy beneath. New Grenada, 1883. (R. H. 1883, p. 546.)

B. vitellina (egg-yolk-colour). fl. of a rich, deep orange-yellow, narrowly-campanulate, 2in. long, numerously disposed in large, drooping, umbellate cymes; outer and inner perianth segments unequal in length. l. ovate-oblong, acute. Stems smooth. Columbia, 1882. A very beautiful, tuberous-rooted climber, adapted for conservatory decoration. (G. C. n. s., xvii., p. 151.)