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ALSTROMERIA* pulcli(' 11a ; vnr. pilosa. 

 Red specMed-Jiowered Alsti'omeria ; hany vmnety. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaryllide* R. Brown. {Introduction to the natimtl 

 system of Botany, p. 259.) 



ALSTRUMERIA.— Supra, vol. 9. fol. 731. 



A. pulchella. Hooker's exot. flora, 64. Bot. mag. t. 2353. 



cc. foliis pubescentibiis, sepalis denticulatis. Supra, vol. \2.fol. 1008. 



/3. pilosa ; foliis ciliato-fimbriutis, sepalis serratis. 



This lovely plant is so liable to vary, that we have 

 thought it right to publish a form in which it is strikingly 

 different from its appearance as represented at fol. 1008. 

 In the latter the leaves are so little pubescent as to appear 

 almost smooth, and the sepals so slightly denticulate as to 

 be little more than scabrous at the margin. In this, on 

 the contrary, the hairs of the leaves are remarkably long, and 

 the sepals deeply and distinctly serrated ; the lowers are 

 also larger, and more brightly coloured. 



Our drawing was made from a plant in the Garden of 

 Lady Oakes, at Mitcham, where it flowered beautifully in 

 a pot last autumn. 



Many of the species of Alstromeria are very apt to die 

 under the hands of cultivators : this is, however, one of the 

 most easily managed. It is nearly hardy, and would pro- 

 bably prove quite so if grown on a south border, covered in 

 winter by a wide sloping thatched roof, such as is now in 

 use, with great success, in the Garden of the Horticultural 



• So named by Linnaeus, after Claudius Alstromer, a Swede, from whom 

 he received many plants. 



