2 Dr. Smıtn’s Characters of a new Liliaceous Genus 
misled me. Mr. Menzies at the same time has communicated a 
suggestion of Mr. Salisbury’s, that these supposed petals are 
barren filaments. It will appear, from the following characters 
and remarks, how far this idea is probable or not. 
In the first place, as these plants form a most indubitable new 
genus, of the Liliaceous, or Patrician, order, I have called it 
Brodiea, after James Brodie, Esq. F.L.S., of Brodie in North. 
Britain, a gentleman whose scientific merits, whose various dis- 
coveries, and whose liberal communications on every occasion 
tending to elucidate the botany of his country in particular, re- 
quire no elaborate display before the Linnean Society. 
; Bropima TRE aS SEU 
. 
Trranpria Monogynia. Sect. 2; flores inferi. 
Narcıssı. Juss. 54. Sect. 1; germen superum. 
Calyx nullus. Corolla infera, tubulosa; limbo sexfido, regulari ; 
corona triphylla in fauce. Capsula trilocularis, polysperma. 
1. B. grandiflora*, coronæ foliolis indivisis. 
Radix bulbosa, globosa, solida, tunicd multiplici, nervoså. 
Folia bina, radicalia, vaginantia, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, invo- 
luto-canaliculata, glabra, ferè pedalia. Scapus solitarius, foliis 
paulò brevior, teres, glaberrimus, subsexflorus, plùs minùs tor- 
tuosus. Pedicelli umbellati, patentiusculi, filiformes, uniflori, 
longitudine varii. Bractee ad basin umbellæ, plures, lanceo- 
latæ, scariosæ, nervosæ, acuminatæ, pedicellis longè plerum- 
que breviores. Flores Galanthi magnitudine, pulchrè cyanei, 
erecti. Corolla semisexfida ; tubo pallescente, laciniis regulari- 
bus, subæqualibus, latò lanceolatis, patenti-recurvis; fauce co- 
* Hookera coronaria, Salisb. Par. t, 98, 
rohatá 
