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ALSTRCEMERIA rosea. 
Rose-coloured Alstrcemeria. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE/E. 
Gen. Char, — Perianthiutn corollaceum, subcampanulaceum, sex-partitum 
irregulare ; laciniis duabus interioribus basi tubuloso-conniventibus. 
Stamina sex, demum declinata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula triloculai-is, 
loculis polyspermis. Caulis erectus, scandens aut volubilis,foliatus. Flo- 
res mnbellati. 
Alstrcemeria rosea ; caule crecto gracili, foliis linearibus glaucis sub- 
tortis, umbella (panicula) subsexflora, perianthii folioKs recurvato- 
campanulatis subserratis 3 exterioribus ob ovato-spathulatis, 3 int. 
lineari-spathulatis. 
Stem slender, erect, simple, terete, glaucous, and, as well as every part of 
the plant, glabrous. Leaves small, distant, linear, slightly twisted. 
Flowers in a dichotomous panicle rather than in an umbel, of about 6 near- 
ly erect, rose-coloured flowers. Pedicels long, slender, with a foliaceous 
bractea at their base. Perianth of 6 leaves, which meet so as to form a 
tubular base, while their apices are spreading ; all nearly equal in length. 
The three outer ones the broadest, obovate, tapering down into a nar- 
row base, serrulate above, obscurely marked with lines interiorly, exte- 
riorly with dark reddish-purple streaks ; the three inner linear, spathu- 
late, the lower one marked and serrated as the three outer ones, the two 
upper with a transverse yellow band above the middle, and dotted with 
purple ; all of them are apiculated, and that apiculus green. Stametis 
6, of which three shed their pollen at a time, and the anthers from purple 
become greenish-brown. Filaments purple. Germen inferior, turbi- 
nate, deeply furrowed. Style purple, shorter than the stamens, at length 
longer, and unfolding 3 curved, filiform stigmas. 
Introduced into our Glasgow Botanic Garden at the same 
time, and from the same source, as the Alstrcemeria pulchella 
and Alstr. tricolor, already figured in this work ; the seeds of 
all having been sent from Chili by Mr Cruickshanks. The 
present individual blossomed for the first time in the green- 
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