ancipitate, from the presence of two broad wings, which are 

 not very thick nor rigid, but rather foliaceous, slightly in- 

 dented where the leaves are set on. Leaves alternate, rather 

 closely placed on the young branches, remote on the older 

 ones, very variable in shape; some oval or even obovate, 

 some elliptical, or cuneate, or linear, obtuse or acute, and 

 even mucronated, of a thin and delicate texture jointed 

 upon a short, slender petiole. Stipules minute, subulate. 

 Flowers axillary, or from where a leaf has been, solitary, 

 peduncled ; peduncle about as long as the flower, with two 

 minute, nearly opposite bracteas. Calyx obovato-cyliudri- 

 cal, tapering into the peduncle, two-lipped, upper lip singu- 

 larly truncate with two teeth, lower of three subulate, nearly 

 equal, straight teeth. The corolla is beautifully variegated 

 with red and yellow. Standard orbicular, emarginate, with 

 a pale yellow spot in the centre, surrounded by a deep red 

 stain, which gradually melts into the orange. Wings red, 

 yellow at the base and claws. Keel yellow-red at the very 

 obtuse apex. Filaments white. Anthers yellow. Imma- 

 ture legumen glabrous. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and Stamens. 2. Standard. 3. One of the Wings. 4. 

 Keel : — magnified. 



Note on Alstrcemeria psittacina ; var. Errembaulti, 



Tab. 3944. 



By the Hon. and Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester. 



A letter from Mr. Vanhontte of Ghent informs me, that this plant 

 was raised hy Mr. Errembault du Mesnil, at Tournay, from seed, 

 sent to him from England, by Sir — — O ak.es, meaning, doubtless, 

 Lady Oae.es of Mitcham, from whose garden Alstrcemeria harman- 

 tha, var. pilosa, was figured, Bot. Reg., 1410. The hybrid production 

 must, therefore, have been accidental, and it may possibly have been 

 obtained from that plant by pollen of A. psittacina, the colour being 

 discharged, through the weak and sickly constitution of the plant. 

 Crosses raised two different years from A. aurea, by pulchra, at Spof- 

 forth, have curled leaves, and show no disposition to flower, and half 

 of them have died. The name, it seems, should be spelt Errem- 

 baulti. W. H. 



