286 



fiLANDFORDIA nobilis. 



Scarlet JBIandfordia, 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ordn NARCfssr, Jussieu gen* 54f, Div* /. Germen tuperunu 



Hemerdcallideje. Broxvnprod. L S35* 



BLANDFORJilA. Cor. iubulosat ore seifclobOy.rDarcescens, jS/am. 

 tubo iraposita. -AntMrdB basi e^tindtoriiformi affixse, 'Germ, pedicellatum. 

 Stylus subulatus, Stig. simplex. Caps, pristnaticay trq>artibili8y partialibui 

 angulo interao dehiscentibus. Sem* biseriata, margmibua autUFae inserU» 

 testa laxa pubescent!^ 



Herhm perennes. Radix jfSSr^)^. Fol, radicalid Unearia elongata, Basi 

 dilatatis semivaginantibus ; caulina distantia^ a6breviata» CauHs teres^ sini^ 

 plex. Racemus terminaliSf indhisus. Fedicelli fioriferi reeuroi^ Jruetiferi 

 erecti; basi bibracteaii^ bractei alierd interiore hterali minore* Affinitakf 

 proxime accedit Hemekocallidi ceeruleae- Brotjon prod. L 295. 



B. nobilis, bracteis pedunculo florifero dupld brevioribus, foliis angusto* 



linearibus. Brown L c. 296. 

 Blandfordia nobilis. Smith exot. bot, 1. 5.^.4. Alton's Epitome. 364?; in 



add. 



Rhizoma horizontaley carnosum. Folia radicaUa plura^ ambientia^ h piano 

 obversa, erecto^patentiaj nnx duas lineas latitudine excedentia^ canaHculatO"^ 

 explicata, carinata^ tandem margine revolufa. 



One of the few ornamental Kliaceous plants yet found in 

 New Holland, and adopted by Sir James Edward Smith, in 

 his Exotic Botany, as the basis of a separate genns. Ano- 

 ther species, belonging, like this, to the neighbourhood of 

 Port Jackson, has been subsequently observed by Mr. 

 Brown, and recorded in his Prodromus of the Flora of those 

 re^ons; where it is ranked in an ordinal group, first em- 

 bodied in that work under the title of Hemerocallidece^ 

 the co-ordinates of which scarcely differ from those of the 

 Lilia of Jussieu, except in having the lower part of the 

 corolla tubular, and not divided to the base* The Aletris 

 punicea of Labillardi^re is considered by Mr. Brown rather 

 as the synonym of his B. grandiflora than of the present 



species. 



The drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in 

 April last, in the greenhouse of Messrs Whitley, Brames, 

 and Milne, at Fulham, and had been imported from Botany 



Bay* We are told that it is the first sample which ha« 



