leaves, erect, round, terminating in a bracteated, few-flowered umbel 
of handsome blue flowers. Bracts small, early becoming membran- 
ous and withered. Prpice.s of the outer flowers of the umbel about 
an inch and half long, those of the central flowers shorter. PERIaANTH 
_ tubular below, and green as long as it continues adherent to the ovary, 
angular, owing to six elevated brown lines, upper part forming a limb 
of six spreading, lanceolate segments, of a blue or purplish colour. 
The throat or faux exhibits three stamens, with oblong, yellow an- 
thers, which dehisce by a line the entire length of their sides, fila- 
ments winged and short; alternating with these, and attached to the 
three external segments of the limb, are three abortive stamens, in the 
form of 3 lanceolate or oblong scalés, which are white, and somewhat 
fleshy. PoL.en oblong, diaphanous. Ovary obovate, attenuated at 
the base into a pedicel, three-lobed above. Sryze filiform, as long 
as the stamens, white. Stigma 3-cleft. 
PopuLaR aND GeocrapnicaL Notice. This truly elegant plant 
was first discovered by Mr. Menzies, the companion of Vancouver, in 
New Georgia, on the North-west coast of America, in 1792; from 
whose dried specimens Sir James E. Smith drew up his description, 
and on which he founded the genus. It has subsequently been found 
by Dr. Scouler and Mr. Douglas, at Puget, Fort Vancouver, and 
throughout the dry plains west of the Rocky Mountains. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTurE. Introduced by bulbs, 
sent by Mr. Douglas to the Garden of the Horticultural Society, in 
1826 ? The plant from which our drawing was derived flowered in 
the nursery of the Messrs. Pope of Handsworth, in the month of July. 
It prospers when planted in a shady border, in peat soil ; and may be 
increased by offsets and seeds. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAaMEs. 
— so called by Smith, after James Brodie, Esq. of eee hides 
Britai ANDIFLORA, large-flowered, from GRANDIs, and Fos, from the 
of the pee: of this species, compared with Bropiza concESTA 
SynonyMEs. 
Bropre#a GRANDIFLORA. Smrru. Transactions of Linnean Society. Vol. 10. 
p. 2, t. 1.—Botanical Register, t. 1183.—Botanical M 2877. 
Broprza coronaria. Salisbury. Paradisus Londinensis, t. 98. 
This ziset is not the Bropiza cranpirtora of Pursh, nor of Duttall, which 
is a Millea 
