Tab. 5734. 

 ELANDIOEDIA Cunninghamii. 



Allan Cunningham's Blandfordia. 



Nat. Ord. Liliaceje. — Hexandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Perianthium tubuloso-campanulatum, marcescens, ore G-fido. 

 Stamina 6, basi deelinata, basin versus tubi inserta, filamentis filiformibus in- 

 sequilongis, apice cucullo connectivi insertis. Ovarium stipitatum, lineare, 

 3-loculare, in stylum brevem attenuatum, stigmate 3-lobo ; ovula plurima, 

 2-seriata, horizontalia. Gapsula prismatica, basi perianthio vaginata, 3-par- 

 tibilis, polyspermia, loculis angulo interno dehiseentibus acuminatis mem- 

 branaceis. Semina linearia, testa villosa laxa membranacea fusca. — Herbae 

 Australasicce,perennes, radicibus crasse fibrosis. Folia radicalia, lineari-elon- 

 gata ; scapus teres. Flores racemosi v. racemo eontracto subumbellati, 

 penduli, rubri. Capsula erecta. 



Blandfokdia Cunninghamii ; foliis margine integerrimis, bracteis lineari- 

 bus subacutis, floribus umbellatis densis 2-pollicaribus, perianthio 

 flammeo intus lobisque aureis. 



B. Cunninghamii. Lindl. in Bot Beg. v. 31, sub t. 18. 



Of the four or five known species of this magnificent Aus- 

 tralian genus, the present is by far the most handsome and 

 profuse flowerer. It was raised by Messrs. E. G. Henderson 

 and Sons, of the Wellington Nurseries, St. John's Wood, 

 who flowered it in April of the present year. It is a native 

 of the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, where it was 

 discovered by the late Allan Cunningham, who describes it as 

 " growing on a stiff clayey soil, below a permanent elevated 

 peaty bog." It is nearly allied to the B. grandi flora of 

 Brown, a native of Tasmania, but differs in the serrulate 

 margins of the leaves. ■ 



From B. flammea, Hook. (Tab. nostr. 4819), it differs in 

 the narrower perianth, its colour, and especially in the 

 broader leaves, which are quite smooth on the margin. 



I)i:scr. Boot of tuberous fibres. Leaves all radical, disti- 

 chous, one to two feet long, erect and spreading, bright green 

 above, pale below, narrow linear-ensiform, somewhat keeled 

 at the back, nearly half an inch broad at the base. Scape 

 two to three feet high, stout, terete, with numerous appressed 



OCTOBJBE Lst, 1868. 



