STRIPED A L S T R OEMERIA. 
flowers : a bracte at the branching of the pe- 
duncles; and petals, from erect spreading, ra- 
ther biunt, the outer one being red and the 
inner greenish. 
The fifth species, or Alstroemeria Multiflo- 
ra, though it has the habit and structure of the 
Salsilla, is generally considered as very dis- 
tinct from the rest. 
The sixth species, or Alstroemeria Ovata, 
differs from the Salsilla, in it's woolly leaves 
and tubulose flowers. 
The Alstroemerias are stove plants, and may 
be propagated by parting the roots in autumn, 
The first species is experienced to be much 
more hardy than our Striped Alstroemeria, and 
may be treated as a green-house plant: it will, 
however, not only flower better, but sooner 
and more effectually ripen is's seeds, if it be 
placed under the glass of a hot-bed frame, 
where the air is freely admitted. This species 
is more usually raised from seeds sown in the 
spriiiL, in a pot of light earth, on a gentle 
hot-bed of dang or tan. 
