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ALSTROMERIA* psittacina. 



Parrot Alstromeria. 





HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaryllidea -R. Brown. (Introduction to the natural 

 system of Botany, p. 259.) 



ALSTROMERIA.— Suprd, vol. 9. fol. 731. 





A. psittacina ; caule stricto, foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis in petiolum angus- 

 tatis, floribus umbellatis, perianthio connivente ringente : laciniis spathu- 

 latis cuspidatis crenulatis interioribus angustioribus, capsulis globosis 

 hexapteris. 

 A. psittacina. Lehm. cat. hort. Hamb. 1826. R'dmer et Schultes syst. veg. 

 7. 739. Hooker in bot. mag. t. 3033. 



Caulis erectus, sub-bipedalis , glaber, levissimd angulatus, juventute pur- 

 purascens, senectute viridis ; Jlorifer parce foliosus, v. foliis marcidis fer& 

 nudus. Folia resupinata, ovato-oblonga v. angustiora, 7-costata, glabra. 

 Flores umbellati, speciosi, basi sanguinei, apice virides maculati. Sepala 

 unguiculata, spatulata, brevi acuminata, intils apice pubescentia, obtusa, 

 basi ciliata ; petala conformia, breviora. Capsulse subrotundce, brevh hex- 

 apterce, apice ared hexagond coronatce f intra aream trigones; triloculares, 

 3-valves ; frictce odore Liquiritice. Semina pauca in utroque loculo, sub- 

 rotunda, testd pallidd tenerd, embryone brevi cylindraceo recto in basi albu- 

 minis carnoso-cornei. 



Said to be a native of Mexico; but we know not upon 

 what authority. We should rather have suspected it to be 

 Brazilian or Chilian, for no true Alstromeria has yet been 

 described from Mexico ; the only species at present recorded 

 as a certain native of that country belonging to the genus 

 Bomarea, which by no means ought to be confounded with 

 Alstromeria. 



The method of cultivating such plants as this, recom- 

 mended in our remarks upon A. pulchella, fol. 1410, has 

 been found extremely well adapted to this species. Within 



* Sec fol. 1410. 



