Limb spreading : three outer lacinie oblong-oval, termi- 
nated with a small white point: three internal lacinie — 
erect, very minute, indeed nearly obsolete. Stamens three: 
filaments short, united: anthers oblong, nearly erect. 2 
Style overtopping the anthers: Stigmas three, petal-formed, — 
spreading, flat, minutely serrate at the edge. Capsules 
several, included within the persistent, 2-valved spathe, and 
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separately covered by thin membranaceous spathelets, — 
nearly an inch long, three-sided, three-celled, with two rows 
of oval smooth seeds in each cell, which are seen through ~ 
the sides of the capsule. 
This is evidently a different species from PartersoniA 
sericea (supra No. 1041.) nor does it, we are sorry to observe, 
entirely agree with the characters of glauca, as given in 
Brown’s Prodromus; yet we are not willing unnecessarily 
to consider it as a distinct species ; should it hereafter be 
thought so, the name of longiscapa may be applied to it. 
Parersonia belongs to Linnaus’s Natural Order of En- 
sate, the Iridee of Jussreu. Native of New South Wales 
and Van Diemen’s Island. Raised by Rozserr Barctay, 
Esq. of Bury Hill. Flowers in the greenhouse, in May and 
June, and produces abundance of blossoms im succession. 
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