260 ON THE BRASILIAN SPECIES OF ALSTROMERIA. 
known species, but not repeating anything which the Flora already 
ite 
e following is a key to the species, founded upon OE charac- 
ters oh those which Dr. Schenk has used for this purpos 
ee cogglien Plants of shady woods, with spe ce leaves, 
with slender veins, 
Leaves of ‘is flowering-stem small, sessile, linear or lanceolate. 
1. A. caryophyllea. 2. ‘ Jilipendula. 3. A. foliosa. 
4. A. monticola. 
Leaves of the flowering-stem A at oblong-lanceolate, spathulate» 
petioled. 
5. A. tnodora. 6. Pp longistaminea. 7. A. pulchella. 
; seaberula. 
2. Plants of exposed sate with rigidly coriaceous or subcoria- 
ceous leaves, with stouter veins. 
; 9. A. plantaginea. 10. A. Tsabellana 
Umbel simple + 11. A. eunea. 12. A. stenopetala. 
13. 4. platyphylla. 14, oo Gardnert. 
. A. Burchellii. . Sellowiana. 
Umbel compound 17, A. brasiliensis. i re dispietyl 
19. A. zamiotdes. 
1. A. eh ed ae se A. Ligtu, Ny in Bot. Mag., t. py 
non Linn., Rio Ja =“ Castaae , 844! Mrs. Graham! Weir, 4 
2. A ‘fipendale, "Schenk Is "tis more than a form of the Pe 
3. A. foliosa, 
4, A. monticola Way 
odora, Herd. “The typical form near Salta in Uraguay, 
Tie’ a : aattea yres, Foxr/; near Rio Janeiro, Glaziou, 67351; 
and at an elevation of 5000- 6000 feet on the Organ Mountains, 
Gables, "5892 ! The plan roughly figured in = e ea et me 
nensis” (vol. iii., t. 121), under the name of A. cunea, looks t 
more like this than the _Species to which Dr. Schenk ‘ies aed rn 
€ spec 
A. ere Mart. Is this again really distinct ra ‘the 
last 3 I have not seen a type specimen. 
7 2: silelelin Linn. Suppl., 206; Kunth Enum. v., 781, 
A. psitiacina, Lebm.; Kunth Enum "V. 759, A. Banksiand, 
as Dr. Scheulk supposes. Mexico is pst ce out of the ents 
range of the genus, which is restricted to Chili, aa . and the southern 
half of Brazil. There is a specimen from the Chelsea garden nih Oe 
_.  Banksian collection in the British Museum which will probably carry 
2 it back to 1780 as a = England; snd it occurs wlso in the: 
* 
