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ALSTROMERIA* pulchélla ; var. pilosa. 
Red speckled-flowered Alströmeria ; hairy variety. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. AmarYLLIDEA R. Brown. (Introduction to the natural 
system of Botany, p. 259.) 
ALSTROMERIA.—Supra, vol, 9. fol. 731. 
A. pulchella. Hooker’s exot. flora, 64. Bot. mag. t. 2353. 
æ. foliis pubescentibus, sepalis denticulatis. Supra, vol. 12. fol. 1008. 
8. pilosa ; foliis ciliato-fimbriatis, sepalis serratis. r 
This lovely plant is so liable to vary, that we have 
thought it right to publish a form in which it is strikingly 
different from its appearance as represented at fol. 1008. 
In the latter the leaves are so little pubescent as to appear 
almost smooth, and the sepals so slightly denticulate as to 
be little more than scabrous at the margin. In this, on 
the contrary, the hairs of the leaves are remarkably long, and 
the sepals deeply and distinctly serrated; the flowers are 
also larger, and more brightly coloured. 
Our drawing was made from a plant in the Garden of 
Lady Oakes, at Mitcham, where it flowered beautifully in 
a pot last autumn. 
Many of the species of Alstrómeria are very apt to die 
under the hands of cultivators : this is, however, one of the 
most easily managed. It is nearly hardy, and would pro- 
bably prove quite so if grown on a south border, covered in 
winter by a wide sloping thatched roof, such as is now in 
use, with great success, in the Garden of the Horticultural 
* So named by Linneus, after Claudius Alstrómer, a Swede, from whom 
he received many plants. 
