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Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—AmaryLuipez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium corollaceum, subcampanulaceum, 6-parti- 
tum, irregulare, laciniis duabus (vel tribus) interioribus 
basi tubuloso-conniventibus. Stam. 6, laciniis inserta, 
demum declinata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula trilocularis, 
loculis polyspermis.—Caulis erectus, scandens aut volubilis, 
foliatus. Flores umbellati. Kunth. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ALsTR@MERIA oculata; caule terete glabro volubili, foliis 
ovato-oblongis obtusis utrinque glabris, petiolis tortis, 
umbellis multifloris, pedunculis subbifloris pedicel- 
lisque glabris, bracteis bracteolisque obovato-spathu- 
latis crispatis, petalis difformibus longitudine subequa- 
libus. Graham. : 
Atstra@meriA oculata. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1851. Gra- 
a = Ed. Phil. Journ. 1834. Cuming, Herb. Chil. 
n. 345. 
Various species of this elegant and beautiful Genus 
abound in South America, especially on the side next the 
Pacific. Forty-nine kinds are enumerated in Scuuures’ 
Systema Vegetabilium. Several new ones exist in our 
Herbarium, and others are to be met with in the stoves 
and greenhouses of this country. The present species can 
boast of flowers, which though perhaps the Hiaflest of the 
Genus, are among the most desirable for gracefulness and 
beauty, and remarkable for the eye-like spots in the centre 
of 
