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PATERSONTIA lanata. 
Woolly Patersonia. 
ae 
Linnean Class und Order. MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. 
Natural Order. IRIDEAL. Brown prodr. p. 302. 
PATERSONIA. Perianthium petaloideum, hypocrateriforme, regulare, tubo gra- 
cili; limbo sexpartito, laciniis interioribus minutis. Filamenta connata. Stylus capilla- 
ris apice sepissime tumido. Stigmata 3, laminzformia, indivisa. Capsula prismatica, 
Semina numerosa.—Plante perennes. Radix fibrosa, Caulis nullus v. simplex, brevis, 
quandoque ramosus. Folia angusto-ensiformia, compacta, Scapus radicalis caulemve termi- 
nans simplex ebracteatus. Spatha communis bivalvis, includens partiales nonnullas, confer- 
tas, unifloras. Flores sensim erumpentes, speciosi, ce@rulei, immmaculati, fugacissimi. An- 
there stigmataque flava, Styli apex tumidus, plerumque medio constrictus, Stigma deflex- 
um. Capsule spathis tecte. Semina sepits angulo interno loculi, nunc columne centrali 
affixa. 

P. lanata, stylo exserto, stigmate defiexo, scapo folia subzquante tereti striato longi- 
tudinaliter spathisque lanatis, foliis ensiformibus plano-convexiusculis tenuissime 
striatis striis equalibus: marginibus carinaque baseos lanatis, perianthii laciniis 
basi imbricatis. 
Patersonia lanata. Brown prodr. p. 303. Rom. et Schult. syst. 1. p.404. Spreng. syst. 
veg. 1. p. 168. 

A tufted herbaceous perennial plant ; our plant was about 8 
inches in height, purple near the base. Leaves regularly distich- 
ous, narrowly ensiform, acute, sheathing at the base, longitudinally 
striated with numerous equal lines, the margins, keel, and points, 
thickly clothed with white wool, spreading on the young leaves, but 
becoming close on the older ones, so as to give them a white mar- 
gin. Scape about the length of the leaves, slender at the base, and 
thickening upwards, clothed the whole length with dense wool, 
sheathed at the base by one of theleaves. Spatha 2-valved, striate, 
densely clothed with white wool, ferruginous at the margins, keeled, 
acute, rigid and cartilaginous, several-flowered. Flowers of a blue 
purple, 2 expanding at one time in our specimen, each surrounded 
atthe base by a hard submembranaceous bracte. Perianthium tu 
bular, with a 6-parted limb: ¢wbe bluntly triangular, pale coloured, 
