Tas. 5786. 
GRIFFIN IA DRYADEs. 
Wood Grifinia. 
Nat. Ord. AmaryLLipex.—Hexanpria Moyoeyrnia, 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5666.) 
GrirFinta dryades, elata, robusta, foliis longiuscule et. crasse petiolatis 
oblongo-lanceolatis, scapo crasso multifloro, floribus 3-4 unc. diametro, 
perianthii foliolis lanceolatis lilacinis disco albo, inferiore minore, stig- 
mate simplici. 
GrirFinia dryades,, Vellozo, Flor. Flum. Inde«, p. 3, 
AmaryLLis dryades, Vellozo, Flor. Flum. Liber primus, p. 130, Icones, v. iii. 
t. 117. Kunth. Synops. v. 5. p. 544 (nomen tantum). 
When figuring the beautiful Grifinia Blumenavia two years 
ago (Zab. nost. 5666), it was little expected that a much 
larger and finer congener would soon be introduced; such 
however is the present plant, a native of maritime forests near 
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and imported and flowered by that 
admirable horticulturalist, W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., 
at his gardens near Reigate, in 1868. As a species, it is most 
distinct, of a very robust habit, the scapes being as thick as 
the finger, and bearing ten to thirteen flowers, of a fine 
clear blue-lilac colour, white in the centre. 
These Grifinias are amongst the most charming stove dma- 
ryllidee, and if not so large and gaudy as the Crinums and 
Pancratiums of the Old World, are far more delicate in habit 
and colouring. The G. dryades was originally described by 
Vellozo in 1790, in his MSS. of the Flora of kio de Janeiro, 
which was published in 1824 by Fr. Antonio d’Arrabida 
at Rio. 
Descr. Bulé almost as large as the fist, broad, flat below. 
Leaves spreading, on stout long petioles as thick as the little 
finger, with closed sheathes at the base; limb leathery, a 
foot long and upwards, five to six inches broad, bright green, 
avGusT Ist, 1869, 
