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: - ALSTROMERIA - Rosa. ue 
 Rose-coloured Alstroemeria, 
“HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, _Nar. ‘Oxo. AMARYLLIDEA. i 
GEN. Cuan. —Perianthium corollaceum, ‘subcampanulaceum, "sex-partitum ' 
on irregulare ; laciniis duabus- interioribus | basi tubuloso-conniventibus. 
Stamina sex, demum declinata. — | Stigma trifidum.’ Capsula trilocularis, eee 
loculis polyspermis. Caulis shee soandlens aut volubilis, jolie we low 
res umbellati. 4 ‘ 
Alstroemeria rosea ; ; caule creel gracili, foliis Hinoarihay, glaucis sah 
tortis, umbella (panicula) subsexflora, perianthii faliolis recurvato- 
campanulatis subserratis 3 ewterioribus ob ovato-spathulatis, 3 int. 
lineari-spathulatis. . | 
: Stem slender, erect, simple, terete, glaucous, on. as. hivell as even pat of ' 
the plant, glabrous. Leaves small, distant, linear, slightly twisted. 
: a: in a dichotomous panicle rather than in an umbel, of about 6 near=. 
ly erect, rose-coloured, flowers. Pedicels long, slender, with a foliaceous- ' 
bractea at their base. - Perianth of 6 leaves, which meet. so as to form a 
tubular base, while their apices are spreading ; ; all nearly equal in length. 
_ The three outer ones the broadest, obovate, tapering down into a nar=- — 
row base, serrulate above, obscurely marked with lines interiorly, exte- 
riorly with dark reddish-purple streaks; the three inner linear, spathu- 
late, the lower one marked and scitrathel as the three outer ones, the two 
upper with a transverse yellow band. above the middle, and. dotted with | 
purple ; all of them are apiculated, and that apiculus green. Stamens 
6, of which three shed their pollen at a time, and the anthers from purple oe 
become greenish-brown. Ff ilaments purple. | -Germen inferior, turbi- 
nate, deeply. furrowed. Style purple, shorter than the stamens, at os 
longer, and unfolding ? curved, on stigmas, j 
Introduced 3 into our Glasgow Botanic Garden. at the same : 
time, and from the same source, -as the Alstraemeria pulchella . 
and Alstr. tricolor, already figured in this work ; the seeds of : ue 
all having been sent from Chili by Mr CRUuICKSHANKS: The ©: 
present’ individual blossomed for the first time i im the green- 
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