Plantarum ; and we do this the more readily as there is no 

 species described in the Flora Peruviana by the name of 

 pulchella, which was taken up by Linna'us from a drawing 

 only. There is no figure of Alstrcemeria tdgtu in the 

 Flora Peruviana of Ruez and Pavon, the drawings and 

 dried specimens of that plant being lost by shipwreck, but 

 their description disagrees in very few points with our 

 present subject; and they refer to Feuillee's figure without 

 stigmatising it as bad; a character given it by Willdenow, 

 and which it well deserves, if intended to represent the 

 plant now known by that name. The specimens preserved 

 in their Herbarium now in the possession of Mr. Lambert, 

 as A. Ligtu, are more like our plant than the one which 

 is so called at present ; but perhaps may be only varieties 

 of Pelegrina. 



Our drawing was taken from a weak plant; a stronger 

 may probably produce more flowers in the umbel and 

 consequently a greater number of leaves in the involu* 

 cram. Communicated by Mr. Anderson from the Chelsea 

 garden in June last; where it flowered in the greenhouse, 

 Native of Chili whence the seeds were received in 1820, 



