pale rose colour, rather darker in the middle of the outside, obo- 

 vato-crenate, with a central, green, concave, callous point ; three 

 inner segments rather longer than the outer, spathulate with a 

 green callous apex, and oblong deep rose-coloured spots on their 

 upper half, the lowest is rather the shortest of the three, nearly 

 flat and arched backwards ; the two others project in the centre of 

 the flower, and are straight, except near the apex, where they 

 are bent back, and immediately below this point are marked by a 

 broad, transverse, yellow band, nectariferous at the base. Sta* 

 mens laid along the lower petal till the pollen is mature, when 

 they become straight, and nearly parallel with the two central 

 petals, which they almost equal in length : jilaments rose-colour- 

 ed, slightly tapering, pubescent at the base ; Anthers greenish- 

 rose-coloured, flattened, and, as in the other species when the 

 loculaments burst, becoming flattened in the opposite direction ; 

 Pollen reddish, granules very small and oblong. Stigma trifid, 

 rose-coloured as well as the prismatic style, which is only green 

 at its persisting base. Germen trilocular, purple, obovato-turbi- 

 nate, covered with minute, shining tubercles, ribs strong and 

 prominent. Ovules numerons, attached in two rows, within each 

 loculament, to the central receptacle. 



This extremely handsome plant flowered, for the first time in 

 this country, in Mr. P. Neill's greenhouse, at Canonmills *, 

 near Edinburgh, June 1831. Mr. Neill is uncertain to whom 

 he is indebted for the plant, but as seeds of Alstrcemeria pal- 

 lida were sent in the same packet, and as we possess specimens of 

 this, collected by Dr. Gillies at Los Ojos de Agua, it is probable 

 A.Neillii was from him also. Dr. Gillies inclines to the same 

 opinion, and believes that this species is the one which at Men- 

 doza is called Pelegrina, and of which he has various individuals 

 in his Herbarium. It is possible that these are identical, though 

 the segments of the perianth are in the native specimens perfectly 

 entire, the inner ones lanceolate, not spathulate, the outer acute, 

 not emarginate, and the peduncles single-flowered. Dr. Gillies 

 found it on both sides of the Cordillera of the Andes, between 

 Chili and Mendoza. I alluded to it in my description of Alstrce- 

 meria pallida, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for 

 September, 1829, and conjectured, that when it flowered, it might 

 prove to be a variety of it. The inflorescence, habit, and colour- 

 ing give support to this conjecture ; and our increasing acquaint- 

 ance with South American Genera throws increasing scepticism 

 upon all enquiries as to the natural boundaries of species; but till 

 the period arrives when a revision of the whole Genus Alstro3- 

 meria shall warrant a considerable reduction of its species, the 

 characters above noted may be deemed sufficient, as giving to 

 this form a better title to a specific name than several others, 

 which are now held to be sufficiently distinct. Graham. 



This very interesting establishment has recently sustained a great loss in 

 the removal of the gardener, Alexander Scott, whose professional talent 

 and patient industry have been transferred to a situation of more extensive 

 usefulness. He has been appointed foreman to Mr. Knight's Exotic Nur- 

 sery, Chelsea, a situation for which he is especially fitted by his quiet, unas- 

 suming manners, and uniformly steady conduct. Graham. 



Fig. I. Lower Leaf. 2. Outer, and 3, inner fetal : nat. size. 



