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ALSTRCMERIA rraricotor. 
Tricolored Alstreemeria. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Orp. AMARYLLIDER, Br. Kunth. 
—NARCISSI, Drv. III. Genera Narcissi non omnino affiniawJuss. 
Gen. Cuar.—Perianthium corollaceum, subcampanulaceum, sexpibllions ir- 
regulare ; laciniis duabus interioribus basi tubuloso-conniventibus. Sta- 
mina sex, laciniis inserta, demum declinata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula 
trilocularis, loculis polyspermis. Caulis erectus, scandens aut volubilis, fo- 
hatis. Flores umbellati—Kunth. 
Alstreemeria tricolor ; caule erecto gracili foliis lineari-lanceolatis tortis 
glabris, umbella pauciflora (?) perianthii laciniis quatuor exteriori- 
bus obovato-spathulatis subconformibus brevioribus, duabus interio- 
ribus, paulo longioribus lineari-spathulatis omnibus serratis. 
Stem erect, simple, slender, glabrous, in our specimens a foot high, having a 
few distantly placed, lineari-lanceolate, glabrous, twisted leaves, 
scarcely exceed two inches in length, their margins quite destitute of ci- 
lize. 
Umbel few-flowered, having at the base a three-leaved involucre, of which 
the leaflets resemble the cauline leaves, only that they are somewhat 
smaller. Flowers large in proportion to the size of the plant, handsome. 
Perianth of 6 leaflets, of which the four exterior ones are equal in size 
and nearly so in shape, obovato-spathulate, serrated at the extremity, 
pure white, with a deep spot of purple at the tip, just below the 
small white callous point: at the base these leaflets are connivent and 
erect, their apices spreading and even recurved: the two inner leaflets 
are somewhat longer than the outer ones, erect, linear-spathulate, me 
lower parts. " Rcve aa in A pelea; eee le 
Pistil and Style as in A. pulchella ; meee OS et 
Stamens. 
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