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ALSTRGEMERIA PSITTACINA. PARROT- 
FLOWERED ALSTRCG:MERIA. 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Amary.uiveEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium corollaceum, subcampanulaceum, sex-par- 
titum, 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 Synonym. 
Atstramerta psittacina ; caule erecto flexuoso, foliis ob- 
longo-lanceolatis obtusis basi attenuatis tortis, petalis 
spathulatis acuminulatis tribus interioribus angustio- 
ribus, pedunculis unifloris. 
ArsrrameriA psittacina. Lehm. Cat. Hort. Hamb. 1826. 
Roem. et Sch. v. 7. p. 739. Sweet, Br. Fl. Gard. N.S. 
t. 1D. 
Descr. Stems short, erect, but flexuose, glabrous, some 
of them sterile with a crown of broadly oblong, spathulate, 
twisted leaves ; others taller, with distant, scattered, linear- 
oblong, twisted leaves, attenuated at the base, all of them 
obtuse. Unmbel terminal, of from four to six flowers, sur- 
rounded by an involucre of four or five leaves, similar to 
those of the stem, but smaller. Peduncles angular, un- 
branched. Corolla subcampanulate, of six linear-spathu- 
late, shortly acuminated petals, of a beautiful red colour, 
- green at the apex, and there only marked, both within and 
without 
