PAXTON'S 
MAGAZINE OF GARDENING AND BOTANY. 
BLANDFORDIA FLAMMEA. (Flame-flowered Blandfordia.) 
Class, Hexandria Order, Monogynia. Nat. Order, Liliace^.. (Lilies, Veg. Kingd.) 
Generic Character. — Corolla tubular, with a six-lobed 
mouth, perishing. Stamens lying on the tube. Anthers 
affixed to a base in the form of an extinguisher. Style 
subulate. Stigma simple. Capsule prism-shaped, divisible 
into three compartments, each of which opens at the 
interior angle. Seeds in two rows, inserted at the edges 
of the suture ; outer coat loose, pubescent. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evei-green herbaceous 
perennial, growing under favourable circumstances to 
three or four feet high. Leaves pale green, linear -lanceolate. 
acute, six to nine inches long. Scape growing to the height 
of from ten inches to four feet, slender, of a purple colour. 
Floivers few, three or four on each scape, pendulous, with 
two small bracts at their base. Perianth orange-red, tipped 
with yellow, and the interior a bright orange yellow ; limb 
composed of six segments, of which the outer ones are 
ovate and obtuse, the inner bi'oader and retuse. 
Authorities and Synonymes. — Blandfordia flammea, 
Dr. Lindley's MSS. 
OuE drawing of this very handsome species of Blaudfordia was made from a specimen 
which flowered in the possession of Messrs. Low and Son, Nurserymen, Clapton, in 
October, 1849. 
It is a native of Australia, whence it was introduced by the above gentlemen, along 
with Blandfordia nobilis and grandiflora, through a friend in Sydney, who himself 
discovered our present subject growing on the banks of the Hunter river. Although in a 
living state the plant is quite new to our collections, it has been known for some years in 
a dried state, Dr. Lindley having specimens four feet in length in his possession, received 
from Port Stephens. 
It is a very desirable greenhouse species, continuing to produce its flowers for several 
weeks together ; it is tuberous-rooted also, and preserves its foliage throughout the winter, 
and its blossoms are elegantly disposed, and of a rich and very showy colour. 
The treatment usually given to Cape bulbs, will in a great measure be suitable for this 
plant ; but as the soil in which the plant grows will require watering, more or less, all the 
winter, it will be necessary to add a little more heath-mould than is used for bulbs, and 
the pot should be placed in a dry airy part of the greenhouse. It will no doubt also thrive 
well planted out in the border of a conservatory. 
The generic name was given by Sir J. E. Smith in honour of the Marquis of Blandford, 
a great patron of botany. 
Increase is effected by division of roots. 
VOL. I. NO. XII. 
2 Z 
