Herreria
(named in honour of Gabriel A. de Herrera, 1470-1539, a Spanish agriculturist). ORD. Liliaceae. A genus comprising three or four species of pretty greenhouse plants. Flowers small, scented, in many-flowered axillary racemes. Leaves whorl-fascicled, linear-lanceolate. Stems climbing. Rootstock tuberous. Herrerias succeed in peat, sand, and loam, mixed. Increased by seeds, or by cuttings. Probably the only species in cultivation is the following:
H. Sarsaparilla (Sarsaparilla). fl. green, yellow; segments of perianth ovate-obtuse. June and July. l. lanceolate. h. 8ft. Brazil, 1824. (B. R. 1042, under name of H. parviflora.)