

K 



who 



fi 



seed, at theii 



nursery in Hammersmith, where our drawing was made in 



J 



A 



ft 



pel 



herbaceous 



tn a low upright suf- 



reddish brown robtstock, branching out into 



many short arms, each of which is terminated by a fascicle 



f 



narrow 



to 



fi 



rather clos 



edgewise! y 



c 



bet 



the centre 



hilarious evergreen 



if t ; items solitary, 

 ss of each fascicle. 



upright, from 



than which they are sometimes higher, at others scarcely 



even with, smooth, 

 flowered smoc 



by single nictnb 



bivalved spathe; flowers parted fi 



any- 

 each 



concealed b 



expanding 



of a 



in succession, seldom two at once, tender, fuga«w W y, ~* ^ 

 pale violet or grey colour ; each of the three large extended 



verlapping the other by one of its edges in- 

 the small inner alternating connivent ones, 



dependently 



a disposition 



of 



J)OS 



of the C 



f 



but, 



fi 



the co- 



reached, an anomaly in that of the Ensatjs, 



mat el V refracted group of stigmas of some of 

 is likewise a peculiarity. 



T 



species 



The genus comes nearer to Aristea and Witsexia 



5 



than 



to any others we are acquainted with. The present appella- 

 tion has been assigned it by Mr. Brown, in his valuable 

 work on the New Holland plants, in commemoration of 

 his friend, Colonel Pater son, formerly Lieutenant-Governor 



of the colony of New South Wales : a gentleman whose 



name has hcen long familiar to the naturalist. In adopting 



it, a slight passc-droit is manifestly offered to Monsieur 



Labi ilarai ere, by whom the genus had been previously 



established under the name of Genosiris ; less distinctly 

 indeed, and from a single species. 



Belongs to the greenhouse ; thrives in peat-earth, an 

 requires a plentiful supply of water in the summer season. 



d 



a A flower attached to its prism-shaped germen, and deprived of its three 

 larger segments, to show the three minute inner ones, the partially mona- 

 delphous stamens and the stigmas, b The stamens and the refracted stig- 

 mas; somewhat magnified. 





