400 CXXII, TIRIDEJXE. | Diplarrhena. 
Stems above 2 ft. high. Leaves ! to ed in. broad. TAn varie- : 
gated blue and yellow . . 9. D. latifolia. 
1. ut Morza, Labill. Voy. i. 157, t. 15. pis labrous in all 
its parts. Rhizome or leafy base of the stem short, Leaves c iefly 
adeil, SAT very flat, 1 to 2 ft. long, 2 to 3 lines broad. Stems 1 to 
9 ft igh, w with a few shorter leaves. Tos ides i ik 
those of Patersonia, but not composed of 2 spikelets, two 
outer bracts rigidly WE ira prominently striate, 2 to 25 in. long, 
acutely acuminate, keeled, with narrow scarious margins, the inner ones 
membranous or scarious, au one as well as the second outer one 
opposed to a flower. Pedicels slender but shorter than the bracts, 
carrying usually the top of the ovary to the level of the bract, and 
rod. 304; Hook. f. FL. T 
Miaka ae, Vahl, Enum. ii. 154. 
N. Sen Wales. Cape Howe, C. Walter 
ria. Wilson's promontory, and caer ee between Mount Barclay and 
Mount | ae F. Mueller 
Tasmania, Labi ‘lat “hère; Port A" R. Brown ; abundant in good soil 
me the Pie * D. Hooker and o 
Leaves rather Hos and shorter, but very different from 
a ‘of — beris "d flower white as in tha typic indi form.— Western Mountains, 
nn. 
more viet (Oldfield); “ variegated blue and yellow" (06. Stuart), 
the dried specimens oe a bluish tinge in the whole perianth which 
pit never do in D. Mor 
OU. ran ui n Sun of the way up to the summit of Mount Lapeyrouse, 
2. PATERSONIA, R. Br. 
(Genosiris, Labill.) 
Perianth regular, with a revere tube and 3 outer broad spreading 
segments, the 3 inner ones ve mall and erect or almost obsolete. 
Filaments united middle or almost top into a tube; 
etii oblong or lanceolate, the cells usually separated by a narrow 
ranous conne liform, longer than anthers, 
sully constricted or articulate either near the base of the anthers or 
top, and often. bent down or breaking off at the consttiolign, 
