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grina, and varieties with 2-flowered peduncles, both 
broad and narrow leaved. 
Var. 3. Cumming 568, near Valparaiso. Herb. Lindl. 
Leaves broad; peduncles 1 -flowered, short, thick. 
Var. 4. Macrae. Conception. Herb. Lindl. Leaves nar- 
row; peduncles 1 -flowered, short. 
14. Pulchra. — Bot. Mag. 50. 2421. Tricolor. Hook. Ex. 
fl. 63. Flos martini. Bot. Reg. 9. 731. Leaves sub- 
glaucous, acute, resupinate ; peduncles 2-3 flower- 
ed ; perianth white, tipped with red and green ; 
upper petals blotched and streaked with purple, 
having a bright transverse band of yellow. Petals 
spatidate, shortly acuminate ; style and filaments 
white ; anthers yellow ; pollen straw - coloured. 
Near Valparaiso ; Cumming. In shady places on 
the gravelly hills near Concon in N. Chili; flower- 
ing in October; Poeppig. Fragm. Syn. [Pe- 
duncles erect, often 9 inches long, five to the fork.] 
Var. hort. Bicolor. Loddiges Bot. Cab. 1497. 
Perianth white with green tips ; upper petals 
broader and shorter than in the former (from the 
seed of which it was raised) with a deep yellow 
blotch streaked with green. Another two-coloured 
seedling, without any purple, was raised by Mr. 
Loddiges from the seed of bicolor, which had the 
upper petals intermediate in length and breadth 
between those of bicolor and the original pulchra. 
The parent of bicolor stood near the white variety 
of peregrina, but there seem no features in it that 
could justify a belief that it was obtained by a cross 
with that plant. It has the foliage and habits of 
pulchra, and seems to be merely a beautiful semi- 
nal variety. It is very fertile. 
A. pulchra is very distinct from peregrina in root and 
habit, as well as in flower and foliage. Its tubers endure a 
very long period of rest, and bear our winters in a dry situa- 
tion without any covering, but it is very difficult to preserve 
the young shoots from the bite of slugs in the spring on their 
fisrt appearance. Its leaves are very thin, those of pere- 
grina fleshy and shining; its sepals are not auriculate. Its 
root is disposed to run like couch-grass, and it bears tubers 
on the lower part of the stalk, which is not the case with 
