at the base, the two lateral ones the largest, denticulated, all slightly acuminated in the middle, the two inner segments longer than the others, lanceolate, having denticulate wings towards their bases, of the same colour as the outer segments at their apices, lower down being marked with reddish veins, above the middle on a yellow, below it on a pink ground, at the lower part of which there are a few oblong orange spots. Stamens six; filaments as long as the outer segments of the perianth, and of a similar colour, flattened, at the base triangular, and glanduloso-pubescent, twisted when decaying: anthers erect, large, cordate, flattened, mucronulate: pollen pale brown, discharged in the same way as in the other plants of this Genus. Stigmas three, revolute, pink: style three-cornered, tapering upwards from its greenish, persisting base; colourless below, becoming pink towards the stigmas: Germen as in A. pelegrina.
This remarkable species, the colours of whose inflorescence harmonize together more than in any other cultivated Alstrœmeria, blossomed first in the collection of Mr. Neill, at Canonmills, in July, 1829. Graham.
I am indebted to Dr. Greville for the drawing here figured.
