1624 CXXXV. LILIACEiE. 



6. BLANDFORDIA, Sm. . . 



(After the Marquis of Blan,dford.) , 



Perianth persistent, tubular but much widened upwards and sometimes almost 

 ■campanulate, with 6 equal short and broad lobes. Stamens 6, attached at or 

 rather above the middle of the eorolla-tube and shorter or scarcely longer: thair 

 i-ts lobes ; filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, versatile, the cells opening in 

 longitudinal slits. Ovary contracted into a long stipes, 3-celled, with numerqus 

 ■ovules in a double row in each cell, tapering into a short style, with a terminal 

 •3-grooved stigraa. Capsule on a long stipes,: long and narrow, prominently 

 3-angled, opening septicidally in 3 valves. Seeds numerous, horizontal, oblong, 

 ihe testa rather thick and densely covered with very prominent almost hair-like 

 ;papillse ; albumen copious. — Herbs with thickly fibfous roots and tall rigid scapes 

 or stems. Leaves crowded at the base of the stem, with distiehously imbricated 

 sheaths, the lamina long and narrow witli prominent nerves ; a few upper leaves 

 distant, short and erect. Flowers large, pendulous, in a short simple terminal 

 raceme, each one in the axil of a narrow bract, with two smaller very narrow 

 bracteoles at the base of the pedicel. Capsule erect, more or less surrounded 

 by the withered perianth. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



Plowers rather numerous and crowded, the pedicels when in flower rarely 

 exceeding the bracts. 



Perianth (about 2in.) narrow in the lower part, very broad upwards. 

 Lobes about Jio. Stamens attached below the middle 1. B. grandijlora. 



Mowers few, in a loose raceme, the pedicels ihucli longer' than- the bracts. 



Perianth { 1 Jin. or more) broad almost from the base and much dilated 



upwards, almost campanulate 2. B.fiammea. 



1. B. grandiflora (large flowers), R. Br. Prod. 296 ; Benth. Fl. Austr, 

 vii. 23. A tall handsome species. Inflorescence a many-flowered crowded 

 raceme, the bracts often nearly as long as the flowering pedicels. Lower 

 leaves about 1ft. long and 2 lines broad ; the short upper sheathing leaves 

 •ending in erect almost subulate points. Perianth fully 2in. long, red at the 

 base but the yellow apex usually extending to ^ of its length, the lower part 

 narrow to nearly J its length, then much expanded, the lobes broadly ovate 

 and fully ^in. long. Stamens attached below the middle of the perianth. — 

 Paxt. Mag. vii. 219 with a plate; B. Cunninghamii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845 

 under t. 18 ; Bot. Mag. t. &734 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 365, 



Hab.: Stradbrolte Island, Rev. B. Scortechina and Bail. 



2. B. flammea (flame-coloured). Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4819 ; Benth. FL Austr. 

 vii. 24. A tall species, with narrow foliage and showy flowers, bracts not J the 

 length of the pedicels. Perianth usually above Igin. long, much dilated almost from 

 ■the base and very broad upwards, so as to be almost campanulate, the lobes 

 short broad and obtuse, the colour usually a rich brown-red in the lower part, 

 the broad upper portion from yellow to orange, but sometimes yellow or orange 

 ■almost or quite from the base. — Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xi. 366 ; Lindl. in 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot. xvi. 353, with a plate; Fl. des Serres, t. 585 ; B. Cunninghcumii, 

 Fl. des Serres. t. 1829, but not of Lindl. Maid, and Campb., Fl. PI. N.S.W., 

 No. 18. 



Hab.: Stradbroke Island, Rev. B. Scortechini and Bail., and in swamps in other southern 

 localities. 



Var. aurea — B. aurea, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. £809, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 366. The 

 perianth yellow from the base. Var. princeps, Bot. Mag. t. 6209, the perianth as large 

 as that of B. grandiflora, but shaped "= i" B ilnmme.a. of which it has also the loose raceme 

 .and short bracts.— JSoiift. ' 



