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ALSTROMERLA pulchella. 
Red speckledflowered Alstrémeria. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER, 
ALSTROMERIA. Supra, vol. 9. fol. 731. 
A. pulchella; caule erecto gracili, foliis obovato-spatulatis lanceolatisque 
ciliatis, umbella multiflora, pedunculis bifloris, perianthii laciniis quatuor 
exterioribus obovato-spatulatis <equalibus serratis, duabus interioribus 
longioribus lineari-spatulatis integerrimis. Hooker’s exot. flora, 64. 
A. pulchella. Bot. mag, t. 23538. 
This noble plant is a native of Chile, from which 
country it has been sent to England at various times since 
the year 1822. It is not a very tender species, but, like all 
its family, flowers best if submitted to the heat of a stove 
or of a tan-bed during the period of its vegetation. As 
soon as it has blossomed, the stems begin to decay, which 
should be encouraged by removing the pots into a drier 
place. When the stem is entirely withered, the roots 
should either be taken up, and preserved in paper bags, in 
a warm place, till the succeeding season, or the pots 
should be placed on shelves out of the reach of water and 
of frost. 
The roots of all the species abound in a nutritive feecula, 
which may be prepared for food; from those of a kind 
lately introduced by the Horticultural Society from the 
native country of our present subject, and which we do 
not at present distinguish from the Alstromeria versicolor 
of the Flora Peruviana, a substance resembling Arrow-root 
is prepared in large quantities by the people of Chile. 
Our drawing was made in June of the present year, at 
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