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PATERSONIA glabrata. 

 Grey-flowered Patersonia. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYSIA. 

 MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. (Hort. Kew.J 



PATERSONIA. Cor. hypocraterifbrmis, regularis ; Tubo gra- 

 cili ; Limbo sexpartito, laciniis interioribus minutis. Fi/amenta con- 

 nata. Sty/us capillaris apice saepissime tumido. Stigmata 3, laminae- 

 formia, indivisa. Caps, prismatica. Sem. numcrosa. 



Plautae perennes. Radix fibrosa. Caulis nullus v. simplex, brezis, 

 quandbque rarnosus. Folia angusto-ensiformia, compaeta. SctptfJ 

 radicalis cautemve terminans simplex ebracteatus. Spatha communis 

 bivalvis, includens partiales nonnullas, confer/as, Unijioras. Flores 

 sensim erumpentes, speciosi, c<eru/ei, imtnacuiati, fngacissimi. Anthem 

 stigmataque jlaxa. Styli apex tumidus, pleriimque medio constrictus. 

 Stigma dejlexum. Capsular spathis tectcc. Semina sapius angulo interno 

 loculi } nunc columncz centrali qffixa. Brown, prod. 1. 303. 





P. glabrata, stigmate deflexo, corolla? Jaciniis interioribus dimidium tubi 

 staminei sequantibus, scapo caule longiore spathisque glaberrimis ni- 

 tidis, foliorum carina baseos Ianata. Brazen, ubi supra ,J04. 



Caudex brevis ccespitoso-ramosus, badio-fuscescens. Folia erecta, diver- 

 gentia, collaterali-disticha, hi/erne equitantia atque jmrpurascentia, plura in 

 singulojasciculo, lineari-ensata, striata, glabra, Jirmula, hinc conxexiuscula, 

 margine obsoletiiis ciliata. Caulis modo altior, modo subbrevior v. bis cequalis, 

 ^-uncialis v. nunc altitadinem duorum pedum acquirens, teres, Itviter com- 

 pressus, glaber. Spatha sphacelata, lanceolata, multipara, striata, glabra ; 

 bracteae interiores carina subsericece. Cor. hypocraterifbrmis ; tubus spatlue 

 tequalis, ruber, angustus, triquetro-jiUformis, striatus, rectus, germine duph 

 tiltrave longior, lana decidua infra medium consitus ; limbus amplus, uncias 

 2 transversus, violaceo-pallescens, rotatus, in/erne breviiis imbricato-connivens, 

 laciniae interiores elliptico-obovatce, retusce apiculo villoso, in/erne d margine 

 alter o incumbentes alteri contortarim more, quod singular e nee aliubi in 

 £Xsatis nobis obvium : interiores erectce, saturate violacea?, subulatce, tubo 

 stamineo breviores fy appressce. Stain, limbo c lplo breviora ; fil. pro * 

 cunicidato-connata ; anth. Jlavce, eredo-divergentes, Jilamenta cequantes, 



• laminiformesy ovato-attenuatce, locu/is 2 angustis secundum marginem re- 

 ceptaculi latioris atque introrsum convexi adnatis. Stylus apice tumidus, in 



junctura stigmatum articulatus : stig. alba, infrh ungidculata unguibus co- 



- adunatis, suprh laminoso-lobiformia, orbiculata % re/texa, villosa, antheras 



tequantia ; prima ab imis unguibus arrecta, inde simid ad latus alterum re- 



fracta. Germ, tubijloris isoperimetrum, lineari-prhmaticum, glabrum. 





One of the latest acquisitions for our gardens; and not 

 before recorded as being to be met with in them. Found^ 

 by Mr. Brown in New South Wales, in the vicinity of 

 Port Jackson; and first introduced by Messrs. Lee and 



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