This showy Atstramerta first flowered in the winter of 
1841-2, in the greenhouse of Messrs. Verrcu and Son of 
Exeter, and a specimen was sent to the Editor. The roots 
were found in the Organ mountains of Brazil, by Messrs. 
Verrcu’s collector, at an elevation of about three thousand 
feet. One of the plants, having been set in the open bor- 
ber, has endured the winter, as well as A. aurea, and was 
moved in the spring ; but in consequence of having been 
planted out late, the fower-stem produced in the autumn 
was cut by frost. 
It was found to conform exactly with specimens in 
Sir W. J. Hooker’s Herbarium, gathered by Mr. Garpner 
im the Organ mountains of Brazil, and named by him 
nemorosa, having been probably found in wooded and 
shady places. It is distinguished from the A. aurea of the 
island of Chiloe, and from the Valparaiso yellower variety, 
by the appearance of the seeds, which are less round and 
tuberculated ; by the greater breadth of the leaves, and 
shorter flower, a freckle or two on the lowest petal, and by 
the undulation and more dense ciliation of the base of the 
segments of the perianth, especially the sepals; but it is 
certainly very closely related to it, and as Valparaiso is ten 
degrees of latitude distant from Chiloe, it is evident that 
A. aurea occupies in its varieties a wide range of country. 
The production of flowers in the winter by A. nemorosa, 
seems to mark a very different habit ; but it may have been 
merely the consequence of Mr. Verrcn’s treatment. W. H. 
fam indebted to the Very Rev. the Dean of Manchester 
for the above specific and valuable remarks on this fine 
AtstramertaA. To me, however, I must confess that its 
almost campanulate and nearly regular flowers, the mark- 
ings of the petals and sepals, the shape and size of the 
leaves, and the colour, indicate a species quite distinct from 
A. aurea, as they do from every other individual of the 
Genus with which I am acquainted, and a most important 
acquisition it most undoubtedly is to our gardens. 
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| Fig: 1. Flower, with the Sepals removed :—slightly magnified. 
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