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which embrace it ; radical leaves many, 2 feet long, 
smooth, acute, of a fine green. Flowers said to re- 
semble Albuca. Called in Chili Thekel. A cold 
infusion of its leaves is purgative and diuretic. 
15. Alstrcemeria. — Germen six-ribbed, above 6- or 
12-angled, with a 3-lobed point; ovules suberect; 
perianth with fourfold disparity divided to the base ; 
petals 2 upper erect, the lowest stretched forward ; 
filaments successively curved upwards, inserted in 
deciduous glands on the germen, scarcely adhering 
at the back to the segments, ultimately distinct ; the 
petaline glands marking the disk with an acute oval 
scar, the sepaline with a scar exceeding a semicircle 
in breadth ; anthers attached at their base ; style 
ultimately recurved ; capsule roundish, more or less 
oblong, acutely operculate, 6-ribbed, with crusta- 
ceous valves bearing the dissepiments, springing 
asunder by the axis splitting from the base into 
three parts, the lower half of the ribs remaining 
inseparable from the peduncle ; seeds roundish, with 
a tubercled shell not easily separated ; hilum smooth; 
chalaza circular; inner coat inseparable from the 
horny albumen. 
Occidental plants ; as far as I knoic with an erect stalk, 
leafy or scaly, peduncles one or more flowered, usually hrac- 
teate. 
1. Peduncles 1 -flowered; flowers a little incurved, tube- 
formed, narrow ; upper sepal longer. Brazilian 
plants. 
1. Psittacina. — Bot. Mag. 57. 3033. Bot. Reg. 18. 1540. 
Sweet Brit. fl. g. 2. 15. Barren stem subrosulace- 
ous. Flowers red, tipped with green spotted. 
2. Isabellana. — Spec. M. Isabelle. Herb. Hooker. Coptis 
19. S. Brazil. From the province of Rio Grande 
do Sul. Stem a foot ; leaves remote (four), sessile, 
suberect, lance-linear, less upwards on the stalk, 
rather stiff ; involucral bractes very small ; pe- 
duncles 1 1 , simple, 1 ^ inch long ; perianth in- 
curved, tube-formed, 1^ inch long (yellow tipped 
with green ?) ; sepals wider, subspatulate, sub- 
acute ; petals narrowly spatulate, acuminate ; bar- 
