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ALSTROEMERIA AUREA. GoLDEN-FLowERED 
ALSTRGIMERIA, 
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Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—AmaryLuineg. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium corollaceum, subcampanulaceum, sexparti- 
tum, irregulare; laciniis duabus (v. tribus) interioribus 
tubuloso-conniventibus. Stam. 6, laciniis inserta, demum 
declinata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula trilocularis; loculis 
polyspermis. Caulis erectus, scandens aut volubilis, folia- 
tus. Flores umbellati. Kunth. reer 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
ALsTREMERIA aurea; caule stricto glabro, foliis lineari- 
ellipticis sparsis glabris pallidis margine scabriusculis 
supra nervosis glaucis, pedunculis umbellatis bifloris 
erectis, foliis superioribus duplo brevioribus, corolle 
laciniis patentibus subaequalibus mucronatis exteriori- 
bus obovatis serratis concoloribus interioribus lanceo- 
latis integerrimis striatis. Graham. 
Ae aurea. Grah. in Edinb. Phil. Journ., June, 
This species, imported by Mr. Anprrson, from Chiloe, 
was received at the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh from Mr. 
Low*, of Clapton, under the specific name here adopted, 
and is now in flower in the greenhouse. I am afraid that —— 
in 
* Mr. Low has most obligingly also communicated an excellent drawing, 
which would have been engraved, had we not already possessed the figure 
here given. W. J. #. 
