. None of these are, however, to be compared for beauty 
with a plant of which the late Allan Cunningham gave me a 
specimen, the flowers of which are fully twice as large as 
those of B. marginata. The leaves have neither serratures 
nor roughness on the edge, but are perfectly smooth and 
seem to have been glaucous. The flowers are of more deep 
rich red tint, except at the end of the petals; they grow 
almost in umbels, as is the case with B. nobilis, and their 
stamens have long weak filaments, on which they project 
beyond the petals. No locality for this plant is given on 
E ticket, which only bears the word ** Bland- 
ordia." 
In order to make these distinctions the more apparent the 
following comparative characters have been drawn up. 
l. B. nobilis (Smith, B. R. 286); foliis angustissimis inte- 
gerrimis, floribus ventricoso-infundibularibus subumbel- 
latis pendulis, bracteis ovatis mucronatis pedicellis bre- 
vioribus. New Holland, in the region of Sydney—— 
Flowers red, with the upper half yellow. This species 
produces its flowers on so short an axis that they appear 
as if in umbels. The bracts are very short, and half 
petaloid. 
2. B- grandiflora (R. Brown, B. R. 924); foliis rigidis 
erectis angustis apice serratis, floribus brevè racemosis 
ventricoso-infundibularibus pendulis, petalis retusis, 
bracteis ovatis acutis pedicellis floriferis subæqualibus. 
—— New Holland, in the region of Sydney.—-— Flowers 
red, with the upper half yellow; in a short raceme. 
The bracts here are less membranous and longer than 
in the last; but they are always shorter than the fruit- 
stalks, or even than the flower-stalks soon after blos- 
soming. 
3. B. marginata (Herbert) ; foliis rigidis suberectis margine 
toto scaberrimis, floribus conicis longè racemosis pendulis, 
petalis rotundatis, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis foliaceis 
pedicellis semper æqualibus v. longioribus.—— Van 
Diemen’s Land, about Rocky Cape, in sand.—— Here 
the flowers are of a deep rich copper colour on the 
outside, and yellow only within and at the edges of the 
