1120 
DIANELLA revoluta. 
Few-flowered Port Jackson Dianella. 
—a— 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AsPHODELEA, 
DIANELLA. Supra, vol. 9. fol. 734. 
D. revoluta; folis radicalibus linearibus strictis: marginibus revolutis 
carináque levibus; caulinis paucis articulo brevioribus, panicule ramis 
brevibus vix divisis paucifloris pedicellisque arcuatis. R. Br. Prodr. 
1, 280. 
Caulis erectus, suffruticosus, bi-tri-uncialis, flexuosus, simplez. Folia 
disticha, ensiformia, dura, rigida, 3-4 lineas lata, pedem et dimidiam longa, 
atro-viridia, costá et marginibus glabris usque ad apicem obtusum, quo denti- 
culata Ananassarum more, sed minis. (Obs. icon, incurid pictoris, quodd 
apicem foliorum, erronea.) Scapus erectus, angulatus, glaber. Panicula ter- 
minalis, foliis brevior, laza, pauciflora./ Bracteæ scariose, acuminate, pedi- 
cellis mult breviores. Perianthium cum pedicello arcuato, quo brevius, 
articulatum, sexpartitum, laciniis subequalibus, pallid? purpureis. Filamenta 
apice stuposa, lutea, glabra. Antheree lineares, fusce. 
A native both of Port Jackson and the tropical part of 
New Holland, but especially of the former region, whence 
seeds were sent in 1824 to the Horticultural Society by 
Mr. Charles Frazer. Our drawing was made in a green- 
house in the Chiswick Garden in August last. 
= We strongly suspect that the D. longifolia of fol. 734 
of the present work, is a luxuriant variety of this species ; 
and not the D. longifolia of Mr. Brown, which has broader 
leaves, and erect, not-arcuate, pedicels. 
Stem erect, half frutescent, 2 or 3 inches high, flexuose, 
simple. Leaves distichous, ensiform, hard, rigid, 3 or 4 
lines broad, a foot and a half long, dark green, with the 
costa and edges smooth, except at the apex, where both 
are toothletted like the leaves of a Pine Apple, but in a 
