house, during the summer of last year ; but the inflorescence 
was much more fully developed in the month of July of the 
present year (1825). 
In the colour and markings, and perhaps, too, in the shape 
of the flower, it comes nearer to Alstraemeria pelegrina than 
to any other known species of the genus ; but in that the leaves 
are vastly broader and longer, and the outer segments of the 
perianth are obcordate, and all of them much more spreading. 
Fig. 1. Back view of a flower. Fig. 2. One of the outer leaflets of the pe- 
rianth. Fig. 3. One of the inner and uppermost ones with its tubular 
base. Fig. 4. One of the inner and lowermost.—All slightly magnified. 
