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ALSTREMERIA porcuensa. 
Red speckled-flowered Alstreemeria. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nav. Orv. AMARYLLIDE, Br., Kunth. 
_ —NARCISSI, Div. III. Genera Narcissa non omnino afinia.—Juss. 
Gen. Cuar.—Perianthium corollaceum subcampanulaceum, sexpartitum, ir- 
‘regulare ; laciniis duabus interioribus basi tubuloso-conniventibus. Sta- 
mina sex, laciniis inserta, demum declinata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula 
trilocularis, loculis polyspermis. Calis erectus, scandens aut volubilis, fo- 
liatis. Flores umbellati.— Kunth. : 
Alstroemeria puichella; caule erecto gracili, foliis cbovato-spathulatis 
lanceolatisque ciliatis, umbella multiflora, pedunculis bifloris, peri- 
anthii laciniis quatuor exterioribus obovato-spathulatis sequalibus 
‘ serratis, duabus interioribus longioribus lineari-spathulatis integerri- 
Hise ? Cg 
Alstroemeria pulchella, Bot. Mag. t. 2353. (vix Linn.) 
Stem erect, scarcely climbing, slender, weak, between two and three feet 
high, simple, cylindrical, glabrous, subglaucous. Leaves scattered, dis~ 
tant, those of the barren stems and the lower ones on the fertile stems 
broadly obovate, spathulate, submembranaceous, the lower petioliform 
part tortuose, striated, subglaucous, the margin ciliated; the superior 
ones on the upper part of the fertile stem are lanceolate, more or less 
convolute and twisted. : 
_ Umbel of about six rays, each of them 2- Rowdveak Flowers large, showy, 
and very beautiful. Pedicels about an inch long, and, as well as the pe- 
duncles, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, each subtended by a large con- 
torted leaf-like bractea, which, taken collectively at the base of the um- 
bel, form an involucre. The four exterior segments or leaflets of the 
perianth nearly equal, obovato-spathulate, erect at the base, spreading at 
the extremity, and there serrated at the margin, the point having a cal- 
lous appendage; their color a brilliant orange-scarlet ; the two imner 
segments differ remarkably from the exterior ones, being nearly half as 
long again, erect, linear-spathulate, bright yellow-scarlet at the extre- 
mity, and entire, streaked throughout their whole length with dashes of 
deep scarlet. Stamens 6, inserted upon the receptacle. Filaments at first | 
nearly straight, pale purplish, at length declined, their extremities in- | 
curved. Anthers oblong, 2qcelled, a a a a Pollen yellowish. | 
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