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Emsryo in the axis, shorter by a half than the fleshy albumen, 
reaching by its radical extremity to the umbilicus. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, ALSTRG@MERIA ACUTIFOLIA. STEM 
four feet or upwards, slightly twining, round, smooth. LEAvVEs remote, 
resupinate, lanceolate, prolonged to an acute point, striated, dark 
involucre of numerous slender lanceolate leaves. PEDICELS round, 
flexuose, pubescent, with subulate bracts. Per1coNn subcampanulate, 
the folioles erect but spreading near the extremity, of nearly equal 
length, the ae ones (sepals) of a deep red colour, acute, the inner 
ones (petals) m wanda and broadly spathulate, orange-coloured, 
furnished with a eer ve spot near the top, and two of them marked 
with red streaks. Stamens included in the perigon; filaments of a 
pale reddish purple; anthers. oblong, of a bluish purple. Ovary, 
inferior, turbinate, three-cornered, downy. Sty e slender, except at 
the base, triangular, and terminating in a three-cleft stigma. CapsuLE 
depressed, turbinate, splitting by a loculicidal dehiscence into three 
valves, each containing four bright scarlet coloured seeds. 
Poputar anp GeocrapuicaL Notice. This handsome species 
of Alstreemeria is a native of Mexico. We are glad to present it to 
our readers, that they may compare it with the hybrid, Alstreemeria 
acutifolia-aurea, (fig. 137,) and perceive how far the characters have 
been modified in the mule plant. According to Mirbel this plant is 
a Bomarea, a genus which he attempted to separate from Alstreemeria, 
and in which-he has been followed by Mr. Herbert. 
InTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Sent from Berlin in 
1829. It is commonly kept in the stove or greenhouse, neither of 
which is necessary; for at Spofforth, in Yorkshire, Mr. Herbert 
found it to live well at the foot of a south wall, or against the front of 
a greenhouse, sawdust being heaped over the roots in winter, “ But it 
does not,” he observes, “go to rest like hirtella for six months or 
more, and therefore is much more liable to injury, and requires more 
protection, but it is impatient of heat under glass in the summer. Its 
root is less tuberous and substantial, but it will succeed in an open 
border if set deeper 2 covered with leaves to protect it from frost. 
RIVATION OF THE NaMEs. 
go after pinata a Sweedish naturalist. Acutrrozra, from 
, Sharp, and folium, a leaf, the ee form of the leaf. 
ALSTR@MERIA ACUTIFOLIA. Link ae Otis: te t. 27. 
Botanic 
BomaREA Acutironia. Herbert: Awaryiladanet: a be 
