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ALSTRCEMERIA pucuetta. 
Red speckled-flowered Alstreemeria. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Orv. AMARYLLIDE, Br., Kunth. 
—NARCISSI, Drv. Il. Genera Nareissa non omnino affinia.—Juss. 
Gen. Cuar.—Perianthium corollaceum subcampanulaceum, sexpartitum, ir- 
regulare ; laciniis duabus interioribus basi tubuloso-conniventibus. Sta- 
mina sex, laciniis inserta, demum declinata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula 
trilocularis, loculis polyspermis. Cavis erectus, scandens aut volubilis, fo 
liatis. Flores umbellati—Kunth. efeitos: 
Alstroemeria pulchella; caule erecto gracili, foliis obovato-spathulatis 
lanceolatisque ciliatis, umbella multiflora, pedunculis bifloris, peri- 
anthii laciniis quatuor exterioribus obovato-spathulatis aequalibus 
serratis, duabus interioribus longioribus lineari-spathulatis integerri- 
mis. 
Alstroeemeria pulchella, Bot. Mag. t. 2353. (vix Linn.) 
Stem erect, scarcely climbing, slender, weak, between two and three feet 
high, simple, cylindrical, glabrous, subglaucous. Leaves scattered, dis- 
ones on the upper part of the fertile stem are lanceolate, more or less 
convolute and twisted. . 
Umbel of about six rays, each of them 2-flowered. Flowers large, showy, 
and very beautiful. Pedicels about an inch long, and, as well as the pe- 
duncles, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, each subtended by a large con- 
torted leaf-like bractea, which, taken collectively at the base of the um- 
bel, form an involucre. The four exterior segments or leaflets of the 
perianth nearly equal, obovato-spathulate, erect at the base, spreading Ce 
the extremity, and there serrated at the margin, the point having a 
lous appendage; their color a brilliant orange-scarlet ; ce 
segments differ remarkably from the exterior ones, being nearly half as 
mity, and entire, streaked throughout their whole length with dashes of 
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deep scarlet. Stamens 6, inserted upon the rec Bodner “te 
nearly straight, pale purplish, at length declined, their extremities 
