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ON THE BRASILIAN SPECIES OF ALSTROMERIA. 261 
Smithian herbarium under na ba of A. Ligtu. Here also, doubt- 
less, belongs the very indifferent wild specimen gathered near Rio by 
Sir Joseph Banks, which Sclander referred to pulchella, and on which 
the name Banksiana was founded, and the plant distributed b 
nearly so effective as some of the Chilian species, especially A. aurea 
and haman ne 
; caberula, Baker, n.sp. Flowering-stem 4-5 feet high, 
endevataty: wets straight, glabrous, the upper 6 or 9 inches below the 
umbel destitute of leaves. Leaves 30-40, membranous, resupinate, 
bright green, and glabrous or the pee surface, glaucous andscaberulous 
beneath, with 5-9 distinct ribs, all erecto-patent, narrowed gradually 
an 
inch broad at me middle, the upper ones linear and much smaller (13-2 
inches long, -4 inch broad). Umbel of 4-5 simple rays 15-18 lines 
long, bracteated by 6-8 linear erecto-patent membranous leaves about 
an inch long. Perianth-limb erecto-patent, 15-16 lines long, all the 
segments oblanceolate- i paghio acute, }-} inch broad, the three 
than 
ower rather shorter the rest, the two upper inner longer than 
top one, and conspicuously maculate with red-brown. Genitalia 
included ; all the 6 anthers oblong, about a line long. Sterile stem not 
seen. Goyaz, in bushy places near the Mission of Douro, Gardner, 
if 3! 
ee; in bushy places near San Domingas, Gardni: 4367 !; on the 
Cai de Nené, near Goyaz.city, Burchell, 6807 ! 
0 Isabellana, Herb. Ri ae res Isabelle ! Tweedie, 
790! Selo ! Campos of Itatiaia, Glasion. 
11. A. cunea, Schenk. aoe be compared wit the last. 
. A. stenopetala, Sch 
platyphylla, nae n.sp. Flowering-stem 3 feet or mote 
he stout, straight, glabrous, bearing fos a few distant lanceolate, 
sessile, acute, rigidly coriaceous leave mabe an inch long. Umbel 
petiole 4 inch broad, the blade 3-4 inches long, 18- 21 lines broad at 
- the middle, subobtuse, rigidly coriaceous, green and glabrous on both 
sides, with a large number of unequally prominently raised ribs, a 
dozen or more on each side of the costa. oy t the Chapada at 
N ~~ Senhora d’Abadia, Gardner, 4368! 
A. Gardneri, Baker, n.sp. Flowering-stem about 3 feet long, 
pike straight, rather slender, bearing only a few distant lanceolate, 
ly 
acute, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, sessile i under an inch long. 
Flowers 5- bel, on simple pedicels a couple of ere long, 
_ bracteated by several lanceolate-acute leaves 4 inch long. 
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