ALSTREME'RIA ACU'TIFOLIA. 
SHARP-LEAVED ALSTR@MERIA. 
ENDOGEN&, OR MONOCOTYLEDONEA, 
Natural division 
to which 
this plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, AMARYLLIDACEZ. 
REEPOR, oo divisions baerp iat 
to which MONANDRIA, 
A, this Plant at OF LINN 4 
No. 174. 
GENUS. Atstremeria, Linnzvs. Pertcontvum corollinum superum, sex- 
artitum, subcampanulatum, regulare vel sub-bilabiatum, foliola intesfork 
erecta vel declinata, anthere ovales, erecte. Ovarium infe t e. 
Ovvta in loculis plurima, horizon alia, ana atropa. Srrvus filiformis, directione 
staminum; stigma trifidum lobis replica Carsuta oblonga, vel globosa, tri- 
sexcostata, trilocularis, ide vel rarius baccata indehiscens. 
in loculis plura, subglobosa, horizontalia, testa mem rugosa, 
rhaphe immersa umbilicum basilarem chalaze apicali tu ser saomge jungente. 
Emepryo axilis, albumine carnoso dimidio brevior, extremitate radiculari, 
Hers& in Aperics tnpics et Austral extyasropics 
asciculatis, 
bili, ‘floribus terminalibus umbellatis, Enpurcuer: Genera Plantarum, p. 180. 
SPECIES. Atstr@emertia acutirorta (Linx) Caule subvolubili, foliis 
petiolatis lanceolatis angusto-acuminatis subtus pubescentibus, umbella sim- 
plici, pedunculis pubescentibus, petalis longitudine — us, tribus exteriori- 
bus oblongis subacutis, tribus interioribus spathul 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, asia PERIGON resembling 
a corolla, superior, six-partite, subcampanulate, regular, or slightly 
two-lipped; the interior folioles narrower, two af: them sub-tubular at 
¢ Popa six, inserted at the base of the perigon; filament 
erect or declining; anthers oval, erect. Ovary inferior, three-celled. 
OvuLEs in each cell, numerous, horizontal, anatropous. Sty e fili- 
form, following the direction of the stamens; stigma trifid; lobes 
‘ubilicgm, attinge en - 
§ 
joining by the tubercular point of the chalaza the basilar umbilicus. 
REFERENCE To THE Dissections. 
1. Pistil, showing the d g and the three-cleft Stigma. | 2, The six 
belt and afte: r, 
“Tt is very mabe ble , that the. stig 0 perfection till ata the 
decay of its anthers. The stamens advance s'  sceesively, ike ee of Mertna undulata, Aver also of 
Tropzolum jus or Garden Nasturtium) and, like them, nod befo ore they rise, - ine fila- 
taki lead, but the two upper not ” simultaneously with the lower. It re: ft on ee 
ments 
that the stigma must either be fertilized by the pollen of another flower, or that its — scattered 
fficient after it seems to be dried up and lost; in either case pro- 
bability of the intrusion of the pollen of another individual, than when the migma and anthers are 
mature at the same time,'’ HERBERT: Am i , p. 102, 
