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ALSTROEMERIA Flós Martini.
St. Martin’s Flower of Chile.
Linnean Class and Order. H EX A N D R IA MONOGYNIA
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Alstroemeria Flos Martini. K e r in bot. reg. t. 731
A. pulchella. Sims in bot. mag. t. 2421. non Linn.
A. tricolor. Hooker exot. f l . I. t. 65.
Stem erect, round, glabrous, from a span to a foot high
Leaves scattered, linear, rather acute, glabrous slia-hHv
rough at the edge, pruinosely glaucous on both sidTs, as weU
as the stem, the upper ones broader and almost lanceolate
pres^sed' l^Kyessed, forked, glab™ro u^s , ffu rnishy™edP oatf lathtee. toPp ewduitnhc le6s schoamrpangles,
the divnions occasionally dichotomous and twoflowered.
Perianthium campanulate, bilabiate; 3 outer
leaves cuneately obcordate, with a fleshy, green, ^ n c a v i
point, purple outside, nerved and veiny, with narrow folded
slabed''WlT f yellowish white, slightly
stained with purple, the margins .serrated near the topnneealrrTlyv
wThhitiei , 92 upper ones oblong-spathulate, narroswererra taendd!
onger, scarcely pointed, and almost entire, below of a pale
L i n k / L k ' i d"^' ! bright yellow ground, stained with
hn- , ^ and the apex almost entirely of the
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