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PATERSONIA longiscapa. 
Long-scaped Patersonia. 
Linnean Class and Order. MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. 
Natural Order. TRIDE.U, Brown prodr. p, 303. 
PATERSONIA,. Supra fol. 15. 
P, longiscapa, stigmate serrulato deflexo, stylo articulato, spathis multifloris, peri- 
anthii laciniis interioribus inconspicuis, scapo filiformi longissimo, foliis lineari- 
bus convexiusculis striatis glaucis, marginibus carinaque baseos nudis. 
Patersonia glauca. Sims Botan. magaz. 2677. excl. synon, 

A tufted perennial herbaceous plant, producing numerous 
offsets at the root, which are purple at the base, and smooth. 
Leaves distichous, very long and narrow, linear, acute, slightly 
convex, striated, smooth and glaucous, the margins and keel 
near the base quite smooth, in our plants about 16 inches in 
length. Scape erect, a little compressed, smooth, nearly two 
feet high. Spatha terminal, 2-valved, very rigid and cartila- 
ginous, of a brownish purple colour, not regularly striated, 
smooth, inside of a glossy purple, several flowered. Flowers 
bright blue, tinged with purple, each surrounded at the base by 
a membranaceous acute bracte. Pertanthium petal-like, with 
a long slender tube and a 6-parted limb: tube nearly cylindri- 
cal, pale flesh-coloured, the upper part white, hairy at the base 
and smooth upwards, above an inch long: limb 6-parted, the 
3 outer laciniz roundly ovate, concave, with an inconspicuous 
point, regularly spreading, with a dark vein up the centre of 
each, and striated with numerous slender stripes, which are 
scarcely darker than the other part: 3 inner lacinie erect, or 
the points slightly retlexed, very small, hid by the large ones 
narrowly lanceolate, acute, broadest at the base. Stamens 3, 
inserted in the mouth of the tube: filaments connected into a 
tube about half their length, the upper part spreading, inserted 
in the base of the anthers: pollen pale vellow. ” Ovarium 
