1540 



ALSTROMERIA* psittacina. 

 Parrot Alstrbmeria. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaiiyllide^e R. Brown. {Introduction to the natural 

 system of Botany , p. 259.) 



ALSTROMERIA.—Suprcl, vol. 9.fol. 731. 



A. psittacina ; caule stricto, foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis in petiolum angus- 

 tatis, floribus umbellatis, perianthio connivente ringente : laciniis spathu- 

 latis cuspidatis crenulatis interioribus angustioribus, capsulis globosis 

 hexapteris. 

 A. psittacina. Lehm. cat. hort. Harnb. 1826. R'dmer et Schultes syst. veg. 

 7. 739. Hooker in hot. mag. t. 3033. 



Caulis erectus, sub-bipedalis, glaber, levissimt angulatus, juventute pur- 

 purascens, senectute viridis ; fiorifer parce foliosus, v. foliis marcidis fere 

 nudus. Folia resupinata, ovato-oblonga v. angustiora, 1-costata, glabra. 

 Flores umbellati, speciosi, basi sanguinei, apice virides maculati. Sepala 

 unguiculata, spatulata, breve acuminata, intils apice pubescentia, obtusa, 

 basi ciliata ; petala conformia, breviora. Capsulse subrottindce, breve hex- 

 apterce, apice area hexagond coronatce, intra aream trigones; triloculares, 

 '3-valves ; frictce odore Liquiritice. Semina pauca in utroque loculo, sub- 

 rotunda, testa pallida tenera, embryone brevi cylindraceo recto in basi albu- 

 minis carnoso-cornei. 



Said to be a native of Mexico ; but we know not upon 

 what authority. We should rather have suspected it to be 

 Brazilian or Chilian, for no true Alstrbmeria has yet been 

 described from Mexico ; the only species at present recorded 

 as a certain native of that country belonging to the genus 

 Bomarea, which by no means ought to be confounded with 

 Alstromeria. 



The method of cultivating such plants as this, recom- 

 mended in our remarks upon A. pulchella, fol. 1410, has 

 been found extremely well adapted to this species. Within 



See fob 1410. 



