9m 
BLANDFORDIA gr«Mjiflora, 
Large-flowered Blandfordia. 
\ 
HEX4NDRIA MONOGT^IA. 
Nut. ord. Hemerocallide.'e. Br. prodr. \,2^5. 
BLANDFORDIA. Suprd vol. 4.foL 286. 
B. grandiflora ; bracteis pedunculum floriferum subeequantibua: ii 
minore, foliis serratis. t'^ 
B. grandiflora. Brown prodr. 1.296. ' 
^Aletris pimicea. LaJ^wm. holl. \. p. %5. t. Ill t 
^ \ Folia rigidOf eredta, keti-viridia, utMnque striata, margiHe terrata. 
^capus erecttis, i-d-pedfiUSy compresstu, gtr^itus, squamis rigidis acummatis 
distantibus vesHtus. I^cemus cyliadrictt^ ntultiflorus, floribos solitariis, 
penduliSy bracteatis : hratteis duabus pedunctdi Jloriferi Umgitudine : exteriore 
ovata acuminata interiore ad minimum duplb minore. Post anthesius pedun- 
eifU muttilrn ehngantur. Perianthium magnum, injlatum, rubro-auranti- 
^"^tmkHy diu persistens, limbo 6-loln: iocuitts exterioribus ovatii obtusit: 
iMtsU^ ibus wiorUnis retusis. K 
Vy - \ \ . :R • 
-At folio 286 of this work, will be found ;i representation 
of tn^^riginal 'Blandfordia, upon which tlie genus was 
instituted by Sir James Edward Smith. The species now 
;;;;^before us is distinguished from that by the greater size of 
its flowers, by the colour of its leaves, which are bright 
yellowish-green, not glaucous, and distinctly serrated 
towards the extremity, while those of B. nohilis never 
■~TK5qoa«^-~i*^ old dried specimens^ any division of their 
margin, beyo&i^ a slight and minute cracking. In this 
species the bract(5^-9fe, during flowering, as long as the 
pedicels, but in B.%|obiIis they afe^ai all periods much 
shorter. 
The last-mentioned ^^distinction is that upon which 
Mr. Brown fooiids his'^kMpcific charlcter of B. grand^lorm ; 
a cittevmstance whkMNgiiitfi^^ in our mind as 
