only expanding at a time, which is of short duration, but 

 very beautiful on account of the delicately fringed internal 

 petals. The outer petals are linear-lanceolate with a 

 powdery pubescence at the apex. The inner ones are 

 like the outer, except being bordered with a very broad 

 margin beautifully fringed. Both series of lacinia? are 

 persistent, the outer ones remaining more or less spread, 

 whilst the inner close round the oval, trilocular capsule 

 containing two seeds in each cell. Stamens 6. Filaments 

 short, yellow, attached below the germen ; three of them 

 alternating with and three opposed to the petals ; the former 

 bear short, twisted anthers, yellow with purple tips, the 

 anthers of the latter are more than twice the length of the 

 other, linear, purple and hardly seem to be polliniferous. 

 The style is longer than these, curved, purple. 



Mr. Brown places this genus in his natural order of As- 

 phodelece, in which however he includes several of Jussieu's 

 Asparagi; but remarks that from its near affinity with 

 Arthropodium it comes nearer to Anthericum than to the 

 Asparagoidece of that order, with which Mr. Salisbury 

 connects it. 



For this very rare plant we are indebted to Mr. Joseph 

 Knight of the Exotic Nursery, King's-Road, who raised 

 it from seeds he received from New South Wales, in the 

 spring of 1820. He observes that it is delicate and requires 

 to be kept in an airy sunny situation, in the greenhouse, 

 during the winter months. Propagated most readily by 

 seeds, but may also be increased by cuttings. It flowered 

 in July last. 



Native of the country round Port Jackson where it was 

 first discovered bv Mr. Robert Brown. 



The outline figures shew the parts of fructification magnified and section 

 of the capsule. 



