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Tap. 5809. 
BLANDFORDIA AUREA. 
Golden-flowered Blandfordia. 
Nat. Ord. Liw1acea.—HexanpriA MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5734.) 
Bianprorp1a aurea; foliis angustis 1-} poll. latis acute carinatis, mar- 
ginibus scaberulis, scapo gracili paucifloro, bracteis pedicellis multo 
brevioribus setaceo-lanceolatis, perianthio campanulato aureo, segmentis 
8 exterioribus apice viridibus. 
Of the beautiful Australian genus Blandfordia, five species 
are now in cultivation, differing chiefly in robustness, in the 
breadth, and smooth, or serrulate margin of the leaf, in the 
length of the bracts, form of the inflorescence, and colour of 
the flower. To these must now be added a sixth in the 
present plant, a native of New South Wales, and imported 
by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, with whom it flowered in July 
of the present year. Specifically, it 1s very nearly related to 
the original B. nobilis, Br. of Port Jackson, and may prove 
to be a variety of it; but it differs from all our wild spe- 
cimens of that species, in the larger more campanulate 
flower, and from the figures in the colour of the flower. The 
Blandfordias all grow in wet, peaty soil, and in hilly parts of 
country, extending from Tasmania to Queensland, and are 
absent in the Western and Northern half of the Australian 
continent. 
Dzscr. Root of stout fleshy fibres. Leaves numerous, dis- 
tichous, rigid, grass-like, very narrow, linear, eight to twelve 
inches long, one-eighth to one-sixth inch broad, gradually 
narrowed to a very slender point, dark green, and deeply chan- 
nelled above, paler, striate, and acutely keeled below, margins 
DECEMBER Ist, 1869. 
