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ALSTR(EMÉRIA aurantiaca: 
Orange-flowered Alstræmeria. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACER, $ l. CAULESCENTES. Subordo 1. Opercu- 
losæ, Hypoxideæ, (operculo ovarii prominente) Herbert, MS. 
ALSTR(EMERIA. Germen ovulis suberectis non imbricantibus, 6-cos- 
tatum, superne 12-angulare apiculo trilobo (lobis costas sepalinas respicientibus), 
Perianthium sexpartitum lacinìis quater disparibus apice reflexis petalis duobus 
erectis imo porrecto: filamenta recurvata, germini inserta, laciniarum basi vix 
adnata, petalina basi acutè ovali sepalina semicireulari capsulam signantia. Cap- 
sula acuminatè, operculata sexcostata valvulis crustaceis septigeris dissilientibus, 
axe ab imã parte trifariam disrupto, costarum- dimidio inseparabiliter pedunculo 
adherente; semina subrotunda testá tuberculatà difficulter separabili, hilo levi, 
chalazà eirculari, endopleurà ab albumine comeo inseparabili.—— Plante Occi- 
dentales caule (quoad novi) erecto folioso vel squammato, pedunculis brac- 
teatis, 1-5-(pluri?) floris. Herbert, MSS. ; 
A. aurantiaca ; erecta, foliis lanceolatis obtusis glabris obsolete denticulatis, 
perianthii foliolis integerrimis: interioribus lanceolatis acuminatis erectis. 
Don in Sweet Fl. Gard. 2 ser. 3. 205. t. 208. 
? A. aurea. Graham in Jamieson's Journal, July. 1833. 
The- drawing of this plant was made in the Nursery of 
- Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton, in June 1833. It is a very 
handsome species, and with alittle protection from wet during 
winter will live very well in the open ground, 
For the following observations upon it I am indebted to 
the Honourable and Rev. W. Herbert. 
** Alstroemeria aurantiaca has the flower stem with smooth 
leaves, persistent, and green for months after the seed is ripe 
and shed, and even the long leaf-like bractes on the peduncles 
remain till winter. A. pulehella, Bot. Mag. (erroneously so 
named, and apparently hzmantha of Flor. Peruv.) has the 
leaves ciliated, the stems shorter, the bractes less, and the 
whole perishable almost before the seed is ripe; the tubers 
lying dormant more than half the year, and sprouting slowly 
