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* PATERSONÍA sapphirina. 
Sapphire Patersoma. 
MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. 1RIDACEZ. 
PATERSONIA. Botanical Register, vol. 1. fol. 51. 
P. sapphirina ; foliis linearibus viridibus scapoque glabris junioribus tenuissimé 
ciliatis: striis sequalibus, scapo foliorum longitudine, spathis multifloris 
cariná interiorum tomentosá, stigmate erecto, antheris isoscelo-triangularibus. 
Folia bipedalia et ultra, 2 lineas lata; striis equalibus ; juniora pilis 
Minutis ciliata citó deciduis. Capsule oblonge, anguste, trigone, apice et 
angulis cum perianthii basi persistente tomentose ; loculicido-trivalves, po- 
lysperme. Semina atra, ascendentia, oblonga, mutud pressione angulata, 
tenuissime acustriata, angulo centrali loculorum adnata, sine ullo columna 
centralis vestigio; raphe tenuis; chalaza elevata subfungosa ; albumen cor- 
neum, amylo plenum, oleosum, revera album, sed luce teste violaceá trans- 
d quasi violaceum ; embryo minimus in cavitate hilo proximá obliquá 
INCLUSUS. 
A beautiful herbaceous plant, requiring the simplest 
greenhouse cultivation, and inhabiting the Swan River 
Colony, whence its seeds were obtained by Mr. Mangles. 
Unfortunately the brilliant sapphire flowers, to which colours 
fail to do justice, are of short duration: a large plant will 
however produce numerous flower-heads, and these, by the 
number of their blossoms, compensate for their ephemeral 
existence. 
ted differs from all mentioned 
The species now represen 
of Swan 
in Dr. Brown's Prodromus, and in the account 
* So named by Dr. Brown, as he tells us, in honour of his “ very dear 
friend, William Paterson, a celebrated traveller, lieutenant-governor of New South 
Wales, of which region he for many years investigated the Flora with great zeal. 
This was doubtless an excellent reason for naming some New Holland plant after 
Colonel Paterson, but none for doing so at the expense of M. Labillardiére, who 
first called this genus Genosiris. 
