ALSTROEMERÏA SaLsìlla.
Small-flowered Alstroemeria.
Linnean Class and Order. H E X A N D R I A M O N O G Y N I A .
N a tu ra l Order. A M A R Y L L I D E Æ . Brown prodr. l .p . 296.
A L S T R OE M E R IA . Perianthium s u p e rum , 6 - p a r t i tu m ; segmentis d iffo rm i-
b u s ; 3 in te r io r ib u s , q u a rum 2 b a s i tu b u lo s a a u t c o n v o lu t a . Stamina 6 ,
in æ q u a li a , d e c lin a ta , b a s i l a c in ia r um in s e r ta . Ovarium a d h æ r e n s , 6 - g o n u m .
S ty lu s in d iv i s u s , 3 - s u l c u s , d e c lin a tu s . Stigmata 3 , r e p lic a ta , p a p illo s a .
Capsula 3 - lo c u la r is , p o ly s p e rm a : valvis m e d io s e p tif e r is . Semina g lo b o s a ,
fu s c a .
H e r b æ (A m e r i cæ m e r id io n a l is ) perennes, radice fihrosâ v. tuberosd. C a u l is
foliosus, erectus v. volubilis. F o l i a alterna, plerumque resupinata.
F lo r e s terminales, subsolitarii v. umbellati, colore varii, non spathacei.
A . Salsilla, c a u le v o lu b ili, fo liis p e tio l a t is l in e a r i - o b lo n g i s m u c r o n u l a t i s g la b r i s ,
p e d u n c u li s s u b b if lo ris um b e lla tis , p e r i a n th i i s e gm e n tis c u n e a tis r e tu s is s u b -
a s q u a lib u s .
A ls tr c em e r ia S a l s i ll a . Linn. sp. p i. p . 4 6 2 . amcen. acad. 6 . p . 2 5 4 . ( e x c l .
s y n o n . Hern, mex.) Hooker §■ Arnott in Beech, voy. append, p . 4 7 . ( e x c l.
s y n o n . bot. mag.)
A . o c u la t a . Lodd. bot. cab. t. 1 8 5 1 . Graham in bot. mag. t. 3 3 4 4 .
H em e ro c a llis s c a n d e n s , f lo r ib u s p u r p u r e i s , vulgb S a ls illa . Fenili, peruv. 1.
p . 7 1 3 . t. 6 .
The whole plant glabrous. Stems slender, filiform, twining, varying
from a cubit to a yard in length. Leaves oblong, or linear-lanceolate,
recurved, with a blunt cartilaginous apex, and with a narrow
white membranous border, many-nerved, above perfectly smooth, and
of a glossy green, glaucous beneath, and copiously besprinkled with
minute whitish dots, contracted at the base into a very short footstalk,
which is curled at the edges, varying from an inch to two inches long.
Flowers small, terminal, nodding, of a red purple, disposed in umbels.
Umbels oi from 2 to 12 flowers. Peduncles an inch long,
slender, angular, frequently forked. Bractes thrice shorter than the
peduncles, spathulate, green, with a cartilaginous, purplish, wavy and
sinuose border. Segments of the perianthium spathulate, unguiculate,
retuse and slightly emarginate ; the 3 outer ones of an uniform purple,
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