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appear very similar in form and regular ; but 
Matthews has transmitted some outlines, by which 
the germen and ovules appear to conform exactly 
with Alstrcemeria, the sepals to be spatulate, and the 
petals lance-oval. He represents the style and 
filaments straight, which would not agree with 
Alstrcemeria, but the specimen has a curved style. 
Fig. 7 to 13 are Matthews’s outlines, which are 
evidently too large. Fig. 4-6 are from the dry 
specimen. 
Doubtful Species. 
29. Pulchella. — PI. 4. fig. 1. Spec. Herb. Banks, ab 
arm. J. Banks in Brazilia lect. This specimen is 
unfortunately very much mutilated, especially as to 
the flowers. It is labelled in the hand-writing of 
Dryander, and was certainly supposed to be the 
plant intended by Linnaeus, Suppl. 206. Linnaeus 
described his pulchella not from a specimen, but 
from a drawing, and no reliance can be placed upon 
such a foundation. The specimen in the Banks, 
herb, has the lower part of the stalk naked or only 
scaled, the leaves smooth, petiolated, petiole leaf 
1^, in all about 2 inches long, lance-oval, acute, 7- 
24ths of an inch wide in the middle, equally attenu- 
ated; peduncles 1 -flowered, 1-2 inches, perianth about 
1|-; the sepals seem lance-ovate, red with yellow, 
upper petals seem obtuse, spatulate, pencilled with 
red, green upwards. No such plant appears to 
have been met with by any later collector, and 
there is no memorandum as to the part of Brazil 
in which it was found. It is certainly distinct 
from all the plants I have described, unless it be a 
variety of Psittacina, which I do not believe. It is 
strange that Dr. Sims should not only have con- 
founded Haemantha with the pulchella of Linnaeus, 
but assumed as nearly certain that it was also the 
Ligtu of Feuillet, the one being vermilion, the 
other purple striped with white. 
Brasiliensis (Sello) is much too insufficiently 
described to be ever identified. It is supposed to 
be a variety of Monticola. 
I have thus to the best of my ability arranged the various 
Alstroemerias of which we have any knowledge. That know- 
