Jaliacee.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 49 
(rarely white), with several ovoid seeds, whose testa is membranous and albumen firmly fleshy. (Name from dpupos, 
a wood, and bio; from its affecting shady places.) 
1. Drymophila cyanocarpa (Br. Prodr. 292); Kunth, En. iv. 212. (Gunn, 224.) 
Has. Abundant in grassy, shaded places, amongst Fern, etc.—(Fl. Jan.-Dec.) (v. v.) 
Nat. Orb. XI. LILIACEA. 
This Natural Order, in its extended sense, includes all superior-fruited petaloid Monocotyledones 
that have introrse anthers, trilocular ovaries, and seeds with the testa generally black and crustaceous; it 
thus includes Asphodelee and Hemerocallidee, but excludes Smilacee and Melanthacea ; it is connected 
with Junce@ by various genera. Upwards of 100 Australian species are known, but they are for the most 
part imperfectly defined. 
Gen. I. BLANDFORDIA, Smith. 
Perianthium marcescens, tubuloso-campanulatum, ore 6-fido. Stamina 6, basi tubi inserta; fila- 
mentis filiformibus apice cucullo connectivi insertis. Ovarium stipitatum, lineare, 3-loculare, in stylum 
brevem attenuatum; stigmate 3-lobo; ovulis plurimis, biseriatis, anatropis, horizontalibus. ^ Capsula 
prismatica, basi perianthio vaginata, tripartibilis; loculis angulo interno dehiscentibus, acuminatis, membra- 
naceis. Semina biseriata, linearia; testa villosa, laxa, fusca, membranacea.—Herbe perennes; radice 
fibrosa ; foliis radicalibus rigidis, lineari-elongatis, basi semivaginantibus, serrulatis integerrimisve ; caulinis 
distantibus, abbreviatis; scapo tereti; floribus racemosis, pedunculatis, pendulis ; pedunculis apice curvis, 
basi bibracteatis; fructibus erectis. 
A very beautiful genus, of which several species are known, all confined to Eastern and South-eastern Aus- 
tralia and Tasmania. B. grandiflora is one of the handsomest plants in Tasmania; it forms an annual herb, with 
a fibrous, perennial root, having long, narrow linear, coriaceous leaves, 1-2 feet long, with serrulate margins, and a 
tall, stout, cylindrical flowering scape, 2-3 feet high, bearing a raceme of beautiful, pendulous, deep orange-red 
flowers, 1-2 inches long.—Bracts lanceolate-subulate, varying in length from half as long to as long as the 
peduncles. Capsules erect, stipate, prismatic in shape, narrow linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sheathed below by the 
persistent perianth. Seeds very numerous, linear; testa membranous and densely villous, with tawny, soft hairs. 
(Named in honour of the Marquis of Blandford, a patron of Horticulture.) 
l. Blandfordia grandiflora (Br. Prodr. 296); foliis argute serrulatis, scapo robusto, bracteis 
anguste lanceolato-subulatis pedunculum floriferum subæquantibus v. brevioribus.—Kunth, En. iv. 590; 
Lindi. Bot. Reg. xi. 924. (Gunn, 241.) 
Var. B. marginata; foliis latioribus, bracteis elongatis.—B. marginata, Herb. in Bot. Reg. 1242; 
Misc. p. 93; Lindi. Bot. Reg. 31. t. 18. Aletris punicea, Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 85. £. 111. 
Var. y. Backhousii ; floribus subcorymbosis.— B. Backhousii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 31. sub tab. 18. 
(Gunn, 241.) ' 
Has. Not uncommon in sandy soil in various parts of the Island, ascending to 4000 feet. Var. 8. 
Rocky Cape. Var. y. Mersey River.—(Fl. Dec.) 
Disrris. New South Wales. 
This is undoubtedly the Aletris punicea of Labillardire, which Brown refers doubtfully to his Blandfordia 
grandiflora. The lower bracts are much larger and longer in the Tasmanian than in other specimens, but there is 
great variation in their size, as in that of the flower, fruit, and peduncles. Lindley distinguishes B. Backhousii, 
but Gunn, who first suspected that it might prove distinct, has sent later specimens, which present numerous inter- 
mediate states. Port Jackson specimens have narrower leaves than the Tasmanian, but are not otherwise different. 
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