we feel sure is not the plant of Mr. Brown, as indeed is inti- 
mated by a passage in the text. We fear it is only B. nobilis 
with the peduncles less developed than usual. The true B. 
grandiflora, with long peduncles and longer and very slender 
membranaceous bracts, is that published by Dr. Lindley, Bot. 
Reg. 1845, t. 18, under the name of B. marginata, Herb. It 
is a native of Van Diemen’s Land, where Mr. Gunn finds it 
abundantly and at various elevations from the level of the sea to 
4000 feet of elevation. It is readily distinguished by the short 
stamens inserted about one-third the way down from the mouth 
of the tube. This.is the plant, as Mr. Brown suspected, which 
Labillardiére figures, Fl. Nov. Holl. t. 111, under the name of 
Aletris punicea. Dr. Lindley has (Bot. Reg. I.c.) under t. 18, 
two other species of Blandfordia, viz. : 
1. B. Backhousii, of which he says, “The flowers resemble 
those of B. marginata (B. grandiflora, Br.), and their bracts of 
the same nature, but narrower and weaker and not one-half the 
length of the slender flower-stalks.”” This is numbered 241 by 
Mr. Gunn, and we fear is only an accidental variety of the true 
grandiflora. We have copious specimens with the same number 
attached, which are undoubtedly that plant. And 
2. B. Cunninghamii, which we believe to be a very distinct 
species, discovered by Allan Cunningham, but the locality was 
unknown to Dr. Lindley. Fine specimens of the same plant are 
in our Herbarium, gathered in the Blue Mountains: but so va- 
riable were the species of Blandfordia considered by that prac- 
tical Australian botanist Mr. Cunningham, that he has indicated it 
as “ B. nobilis: very luxuriant specimens from a stiff and clayey 
bank, beneath a permanent elevated peaty bog.” 
Again, there is in the miscellaneous portion of the same volume 
of Bot. Reg., from Mr. Herbert, B. intermedia, “a garden plant, : 
imported from New Holland under the name of B. grandiflora, 
but the description does not suffice to enable us to offer any 
opinion upon it. 
And lastly, we have the fine species here figured, unquestion- 
ably the most beautiful and distinct of all. Our specimen was 
sent to us by Dr. Mackay, from the Dublin Botanic Garden. 
The root was brought from the Sydney Botanic Garden (under 
the name of B. grandiflora) four years ago by Lord Walter Butler, 
to the Countess of Carrick, who presented it to Dr. Mackay. It 
appears to have been introduced to Sydney from Hunter’s River, 
whence we have native specimens in the Herbarium gathered by 
the late Lady Parry. We further possess specimens from. Port 
Macquarrie, gathered by Mr. Backhouse in 1836, and still finer 
ones gathered by the late Mr. Bidwill at Wide Bay, North-east 
Australia, by Mr. Bynoe, from near Sydney. 
