2 Dr. Smith'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 

 Brodiaa, after James Brodie, Esq. F.L.S., of Brodie in North 

 Britain, a gentleman whose scientific merits, Avhose 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. 



Brodi^a. 



Tl Ri AND Ri A Mo)iogynia. Sect. 2; Jtores iyiferi. 

 Narcissi. Juss. 54. Sect. 1 ; germen superum. 

 Calyx nuUus. Corolla infera, tubulosa ; limbo sexfido, regulari ; 

 coron^ triphyll^ in fauce. Capsula triloculkris, polysperma. 



1. B. gr-andijlora*, coronae foliolis indivisis. 



Radix bulbosa, globosa, solida, tunicA multiplici, nervosS. 

 Folia bina, radicalia, vaginantia, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, invo- 

 luto-canaliculata, glabra, fer^ pedalia. Scapus solitarius, foliis 

 paul6 brevior, teres, glaberrimus, subsexflorus, plCis miniis tor- 

 tuosus. Pedicelli umbellati, patentiusculi, filiformes, uniflori, 

 longitudine varii. Bractece ad basin umbellae, plures, lanceo- 

 latae, scariosae, nervosae, acuminatce, pedicellis longe plerum- 

 que breviores. Flares Galanthi magnitudine, pulchr^ cyanei, 

 erecti. Corolla semisexfida ; tubo pallescente, laciniis regulari- 

 bus, subaequalibus, lat6 lanceolatis, patenti-recurvis; fauce co- 



* Hookera coronaria. Salisi. Par. t, 98. 



ronat^ 



