



2j-8 PLANTA ALSTROMERIA. 



§. VIII. 

 DESCRIPTION 



Quam mutila haec Defcriptio Dn. Feuillee 



iit, quisque pervidet: idcirco nova e re eft ti- 



flatur ad vivam plantam hie concinnata. 



RADIX perennis, plures turiones exferens ap 



proximatos. 



CAULIS herbaceus, fpithamaeus, craflitic pen 



nx columbinx, ere&us, cnodis, teres 

 foliatus, glaber, fimpliciflimus. 



FOLIA caulina, fparfa, plurinia, recurvata 



fupinata, f. verfus bafin contra 

 inflex*, ut latus fuperius evadat inrerius, 

 feflilia , lineari-lanceolata , intcgerrima , 

 obtufiufeula, fupra 13-nervia f. linear* 

 fubtus Iseviffima, glaberrima, planiufcula* 

 pollicaria. Terminalia 4 f. f . verticilla- 

 timdigeila, conniventia, plana. 



PEDUNCULI terminates, 4-7 diftantes, rigidu- 



li, ere&i , fxpc i-phylli., teretiufculi , 

 inferne anguftiores, longitudincfoliorum, 



uniflori. 



GERMEN fubrotundum , fexcarinatura , trun* 



catum. 

 COROLLA hexapetala, campanulata Hemerocal- 



lidis fere, ad folem verfa, extus rudior, 

 Pctalis obtufe carinatis. 

 Pet a/a oblonga, bad anguftiora, albida, dt- 

 Ico late rubromaculisquc purpureis punctata; 

 t ia cxteriora cuneiformia, latiora, crenute- 

 ta, rctuiaintermedio dente viridi, concavo, 

 obtufo , minorej tria interiora obovato- 

 lanceolata, anguftiora, magis maculata, 

 acumine tcrminata tenui, virefcente. Ho- 

 rum, Petalum unum exterius fit duo in- 

 teriora Labium fuperius conftituunt, ma- 

 gis approximataj at duo exteriora & unum 



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