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18. Versicolor. — Flor. Peruv. 3. 59. absque icone. 
Stalk six inches, 2-3-flowered ; leaves lance- 
linear, sessile; perianth yellow with purple marks; 
sepals nearly equal ; petals narrower, the lowest 
widest. 
19. Pallida. — Bot. Mag. 58. 3040. Specim. Herb. 
Hooker. Leaves sessile, above two inches long, 
narrow ; sepals broad, rounded, with a small point ; 
perianth denticulate, pale rose-colour ; two upper 
petals yellow in the middle and marked with red, 
lower down with orange. 
B. Peduncles 2-3-flowered. 
20. Preslana. — PI. 1. f. 43. Albiflora. Presl. Rel. Hank. 
2. 121. Poeppig Frag. syn. Leaves above two 
inches long, 3- 16ths wide, acute ; peduncles four, 
2-flowered ; perianth denticulate, deep rose-colour, 
with thick brown tips ; upper petals pale yellow, 
marked with purple. Poeppig states that the co- 
lour is so evanescent that it appears to be white in 
the dry specimen by which Presl was misled to 
give the plant an erroneous name. The rosy colour 
seems to fade in most of the dry specimens of this 
genus. The name albiflora cannot be preserved 
without absurdity. This plant seems chiefly sepa- 
rable from pallida by its 2-3-flowered peduncles, 
and is perhaps to be considered as a variety thereof. 
It grows in S. Chili in rich meadows near 
Antuco. 
21. Hookeriana. — A. rosea. Hook. Ex. fl. 181. non Ruiz. 
A very hardy plant, preserving its foliage through- 
out the winter out of doors against the front of a 
stove, and never going to rest ; flowering in suc- 
cession through the whole summer, and ripening 
its seed. Its germen is strongly marked with 
purple and very round. See PL 1. f. 1, 2, 4, 5, 
and 17. 
Stalk 5-12 inches high ; leaves glaucous, sessile, 
a little tortuous, not resupinate, 3 inches long or 
less, 3 s wide ; peduncles erect, bracteate and forked 
near the base, 2-4-flowered ; secondary peduncles 
erect, contiguous ; sepals obovate apiculate ; petals 
