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PATERSONIA glabrata. 
Grey-flowered Patersoniaa = = =, 
TRIANDRIA J/ONOGYNIA. 
MONADELPHIA ZRIANDRIA. (Hort. Kew.) 
_PATERSONIA. Cor. hypocrateriformis, regularis; Tubo gra~ 
cili; Limbo sexpartito, laciniis interioribus minutis. Fi/amenta con- 
nata. Stylus capillaris apice sepissimé tumido. Stigmata 3, lamine- 
formia, indivisa. Caps. prismatica. Sem. numerosa. : 
_ Plante perennes. “Radix jibrosa. Caulis nullus v. simplex, brevis, 
quandoque ramosus, Folia angusto-ensiformia, compacta. Scapus 
radicalis caulemve terminans simplex ebracteatus. Spatha communis 
bivalvis, includens partiales nonnullas, confertas, unifloras. Flores 
sensim erumpentes, speciost, cerulei, immaculati, fugacissimi. Anthere 
sligmataque flava. Styli apex tumidus, pleritmque medio constrictus. 
Stigma deflerum. Capsule spathis tecte. Semina sepids angulo interno 
loculi, nunc columne centrali affixa. Brown. prod. 1. 803. 
P. glabrata, stigmate deflexo, corolle Jaciniis interioribus dimidium tubi 
staminel zquantibus, scapo caule longiore spathisque glaberrimis ni- 
tidis, foliorum carina baseos Janata. Brown, ubi supra 304. 
Caudex brevis c@espitoso-ramosus, badio-fuscescens. Folia erecta, diver- 
gentia, collaterali-disticha, inferné equitantia atque purpurascentia, plura in 
 singulo fasciculo, lineari-ensata, striata, glabra, firmula, hinc convexiuscula, 
margine obsoletins ciliata. Caulis modo altior, modo subbrevior v. his equalis, 
A-uncialis v. nunc altitudinem duorum pedum acquirens, teres, levitér com 
ressus, glaber.  Spatha sphacelata, lanceolata, multiflora, striata, glabra; 
ieee, interiores carina subsericee. Cor. hypocrateriformis ; tubus spathe 
equalis, ruber, angustus, triquetro-filiformis, striatus, rectus, germine duplo 
ultrave longior, land decidua infra medium consitus ; limbus amplus, ‘uncias 
2 transversus, violaceo-pallescens, rotatus, inferné breviiis imbricato-connivens, 
lacinize: interiores elliptico-obovate, retuse apiculo villoso, inferné a margine 
altero incumbentes alteri CONTORTARUM more, quod singulare nec aliubt in - 
ENSATIS nobis, obvium: interiores erect, saturate violacee, subulate, tubo 
stamineo breviores & appresse. Stam. limbo 2Qplo breviora ; fil. pro 4 
cuniculato-connata; anth. flave, erecto-divergentes, filamenta cequantes, 
laminjformes, ovato-attenuate, loculis 2 angustis secundim marginem re- 
ceptaculi latioris atque introrsim convexi adnatis. Stylus apice tumidus, in’ 
junctura stigmatum articulatus :. stig. alba, infra unguiculata unguibus co- 
adunatis, supra laminoso-lobiformia, orbiculata, Shey villosa, antheras 
equantia ; primo ab imis unguibus arrecta, indé simul ad latus alterum re- 
JSracta. Germ. tubi floris isoperimetrum, lineari-prismaticum, glabrum. — 
One of the latest acquisitions for our gardens ; and not 
before recorded as being to be met with in them. Found 
by Mr. Brown in New South Wales, in the vicinity of 
Port Jackson; and first introduced by Messrs. Lee and 
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