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ALSTR@ME’ RIA ACUTIFO' LIA-AURE‘A. 
HYBRID ALSTR@MERIA. 
ENDOGEN#, OR MONOCOTYLEDONEA. . 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, AMARYLLIDACEZ. 
EPIGYNOSH, e i Artificial divisions HEXANDRIA, 
OF to which MONOGYNIA, 
LINDLEY. | this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No, 137. 
GENUS. Atstremerm. Livvzvs. Pertconium “eorollinda superum, 
sexpartitum, site cherie m, regulare Bs subbilabiatum, foliola interiora 
angustiora, duo bebaloa. ive A sex, imo perigonil Hiserta: fila- 
menta erecta ra declix nat , erecte. Ovartum inferu i- 
-loculare. Ovuza in loculis plurima, pA saihaba anatropa. Srvyvvs filifor- 
nis, directione per itee stigma trifidum, lobis replicatis. Capsuxa oblonga, 
vel globosa, tri-sexcostata, triloculares, loculicido-trivalvis vel rarius baccata 
indehiscens. Srmrna in loculis plura, subglobosa, horizontalia, testa membra- 
nacea, rugosa, rhaphe immersa umbilicum basilarem chalazz apicali tubereuli- 
formi jungente. Emsryo axilis, albumine carnoso dimidio brevier, extremitate 
iculari umbilicum attingente. Hersz in America tropica et Australi 
extratropica indigene; radicibns tuberoso- faspiesitatié, caule foliosa ese 
priciteedi vel volubili, floribus terminalibus umbellatis. Enpziicwzr: Gen 
Plantarum, p. 180. 
ID. ALSTR@MERIA ACUTIFOLIA-AUREA. Cav LE volubili, ramoso 
anguloso. Fo.t1s subsessilibus, resupinatis, glancescentibus, lanceolato.acutis. © 
FLorisus = inalibus, inflorescentiad umbellatis. PERicon1o subcampanu- 
lato, aurantiaco. 
acl OF THE GENUS, ALSTR@MERIA. PERIGON resem- 
bling a corolla, superior, sexpartite, subcampanulate, regular or 
slightly two-lipped. The interior folioles narrower, two of them sub- 
tubular at the base. Stamens six, inserted at the base of the peri- 
gon; filaments erect, or declining; anthers oval, erect. OVARY 
inferior, three-celled. Ovuxes in each cell numerous, horizontal, 
anatropous. Stye filiform, following the direction of the stamens; 
stigma trifid, lobes curved. CapsuLe oblong or globose, three- or six- 
ribbed, three-celled, becoming three-valved by a loculicidal dehis- 
cence, or very rarely berried and indehiscent. Seeps in the cells 
numerous, subglobose, horizontal, testa membranaceous, rough; the 
raphe sunk, joining by the tubercular point of the chalaza, the basilar 
umbilicus. Emsryo in the axis, shorter by a half than the fleshy 
albumen, reaching by its radical extremity to the umbilicus. 
REFERENCE TO THE Dissections. 
1, View of the Pistillam. 2, Th surr 
— folioles of the interior otros oe the perigon. 
outer whorl. 
3, One of the spathulate- 
4, we se oa narrewer folioles of the 
