ALSTROEMERIA aurantiaca.
Orange-flowered Alstrcemeria.
Linnean Class and Ordtrr. H E X A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA .
Natu ra l Order. A M A R Y L L ID E iE . Brown prodr. 1. p. ^96.
A L S T R C E M E R IA . Supra fol. 228. series 1.
A. aurantiaca, e r e c ta ; foliis lanceolatis obtusis glabris obsolete denticu-
latis, perianthii foliolis integerrimis ; interioribus lanceolatis acuminatis
erectis.
Herb glaucous. Stem erect, from 1 to 3 feet high,
round, or slightly angular, flexuose, copiously besprinkled,
as well as the upper surface of the leaves, with minute crystalline
bodies. Leaves scattered, lanceolate, obtuse, from 2
to 3 inches long, half-an-inch or rather more in breadth;
narrowed at the base into a rather long footstalk ; the edges
cartilaginous and very finely denticulate, furnished above
with several prominent nerves ; the under surface quite
smooth and even, reversed by the twisting of the footstalk.
Flowers several, terminal, cymose, orange. Peduncles angular.
Perianthium, the 3 outer leaves spathulate, even, recurved
and spreading, an inch and a half to 2 inches long, furnished
at the top with a short callous point; the ribs externally
green ; three inner ones lanceolate, acuminate, narrower,
and nearly erect, slightly waved and curled at the
upper edge, marked along the middle with two elevated
lines ; the upper ones marked with several linear dark red
spots ; lower ones smaller, of a uniform colour, but sometimes,
a,lthough rarely, furnished with two spots. Claws narrow,
linear, keeled, channelled within, half-an-inch long-, rigid, distant
at the base, the edges folded, thickened and minutely papillose.
Stamens 6, unequal, hardly longer than the perianthium,
at first declinate,but becoming more erect after impregnation.
long, awlshaped, smooth. Ovarium tmhinate,
6-sided, with elevated, compressed, acute angles. Style
3-sided, about half the length of the stamens only, with a
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