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ALSTR(EMERIA TRICOLOR. 
Tricolored Alsircemeria. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.— Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE^, Br. Kunth. 
—NARCISSI, Div. III. Genera Narcissi non omnino affinia.-^uss. 
Gen. Char. — Perianthium corollaceum, subcampanulaceum, sexpartitum, ir- 
regulare; laciniis duabus interioribus basi tubuloso-conniventibus. Sta- 
mina sex, laciniis inserta, deraum declinata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula 
trilocularis, loculis polyspermis. Caulis erectus, scandens aut volubilis,fo' 
liatis. Flores umbellati. — Knntk. 
Alstroemeria 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, which 
scarcely exceed two inches in length, their margins quite destitute of ci- 
liae. 
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, ser- 
rated at the tips, slightly carinated,Vhite, with a purple jagged and broad 
band near the summit, and a yellow one beneath it ; the extreme apex is 
likewise purple, and there are several lines of the same color as the yel- 
low band, pointing downwards, and numerous smaller spots on all the 
lower parts. Stamens as in A. pulchella, but with the pollen greenish. 
Pistil and Style as in A. pulchella ; but the latter part shorter than the 
stamens. 
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