Tas. 4819. 
BLANDFORDIA Friammea. 
Flame-flowered Blandfordia, 
Nat. Ord. ASPHODELE#.—HEXANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, tubuloso-campanulatum, limbo breviter 
6-lobo wequali. Stamina 6, basi tubo inserta ; filamenta filiformia, inclusa. Ova- 
rium pedicellatum, triloculare. Ovuia plurima, biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. 
Stylus subulatus; stigma simplex. Capsula prismatica, trilocularis, tripartibilis, 
introrsum dehiscens. Semina in placentis suturas marginantibus plurima, hori- 
zontalia, desta laxa, pubescente. Embryo rectus, dimidio albumine longior, ex- 
tremitate radiculari umbilico proxima.—Herbe in Nova Hollandia orientali ex- 
tratropica indigena, radice fibrosa, foliis radicalibus linearibus elongatis, caulinis 
distantibus abbreviatis, racemo terminali abbreviato, pedicellis bibracteatis, bractea 
altera interiore laterali minore, floribus puniceis cernuis. Endl. 
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Bianprorpt1A flammea ; foliis longissimis linearibus sensim acuminatis glauco- 
virescentibus acute carinatis, marginibus carinaque seabriusculis, scapo su- 
perne bracteato, racemis plurifloris, inflorescentie bracteis subherbaceis pe- 
dicello triplo brevioribus, perianthio campanulato basi solummodo contracto, 
limbi laciniis interioribus latioribus, staminibus perianthium equantibus. 
Trrroma flammea. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 5. p.32. Part. Mag, of Bot. 
v. 1, p, 353 (cum ic.). 
We have seen in the Kniphofie, or Tritomas, among the 4s- 
phodelee (Liliaceous plants), how variable are the species, in a 
measure perhaps owing to cultivation ; and we fear other genera 
of the same natural group will be found to depart from the 
normal type of their respective species, under peculiar circum- 
stances. Blandfordia will probably not prove an exception. We 
would therefore speak with caution as to distinctive characters of 
what have been adopted in this genus. Plants under the names 
of Blandfordia nobilis and B. grandiflora have long been known 
in our gardens, and both of them figured in botanical works. 
B. nobilis (of which the figure in Smith’s ‘ Exotic Botany’ is the 
acknowledged type) is given at our Tab. 2003 by Dr. Sims ; 
but B. grandiflora, given by Mr. Gawler in Bot, Reg. t. 924, 
DECEMBER Ist, 1854. 
