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ALSTROMERÍA Ligtu. 
The Ligtu. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEE. 
ALSTROMERIA. Bot. Reg. vol. 17. p. 1410. 
A. Ligtu ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis glabris apice subcirrhosis, pedun- 
culis corymbosis subbifloris foliis longioribus, sepalis obovatis emarginatis 
mucrone interjecto, petalis 2 posticis spathulatis apiculatis. 
Hemerocallis floribus purpurascentibus striatis vulgó Ligtu. Feuillée obs. 
710. €. 4. 
A.Ligtu. Linn. sp. pl..462. Fl. Peruv. 3. p. 59. Römer et Schultes, 6. 
735. Herbert Amaryllid. 92, 
A. Feuilleana. Meyer in Reliq. Hank. 2. 122. 
Caulis in spontaneá 1-13-pedalis, adscendens, simplex, in cultá 3-pedalis 
et ultra. Folia linearia et lineari-lanceolata, alterna, torsione resupinata 
aut omnind recta, sub corymbo verticillata. Pedunculi corymbosi, sepius 
biflori, nunc triflori, foliis longiores, medio bracteati. Sepala membranacea, 
apice patentia, vix serrata, obovata, emarginata vel feré obcordata, mucrone 
viridi interposito, alba, purpureo pallidissimo suffusa. Petala postica spa- 
thulata erecta, apiculata, basi alba sanguineo punctata, apice sanguinea, 
medio lutea sanguineo oblique et interrupte vittata. 
How the figure of the Ligtu given by Feuillée, barbarous 
as it is, could have been supposed to represent the Brazilian 
plant called in gardens Alstromeria Ligtu, which is in fact 
the A. caryophyllea of Jacquin, it passes my skill to dis- 
cover. This is a distinctly marked species, the characteristics 
of which are the long-branched peduncles, and the obovate 
or obcordate sepals; to which may be added, that the latter 
are little if at all serrated. 
A. Ligtu is so named because, according to Feuillée, it 
is called “ Ligtu” in Chile; dried specimens from that 
country are not uncommon in herbaria, and the plant pro- 
bably exists in many gardens, although not distinguished 
from either A. Pelegrina or pulchra. The former differs in its 
short, one-flowered, rigid, peduncles; the latter in its shorter 
flowers, and spathulate rather than obcordate, serrated 
sepals. The accompanying figure was obtained from a plant 
in the possession of Charles Barclay, Esq. of Bury Hill, in 
July, 1838. It was exhibited at one of the great meetings 
in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it was 
conspicuous among many beautiful species for the delicacy 
of its flowers and their large size. 
