Kennedy, who raised.it, .from imported seed, at their 
nursery in Hammersmith, where our drawing was made in 
July last. 
A perennial herbaceous plant, with a low upright suf- 
frutescent reddish brown rootstock, branching out into 
many short arms, each of which is terminated by a fascicle 
of several natfow ensiform edgewisely bifarious evergreen 
leaves, forming a rather close grassy tuft; stems solitary, 
upright, from between the centre leaves of each fascicle, 
than which they are sometimes higher, ‘at others scarcely 
even with, smooth, terminated by a hard sphacelate many- 
flowered smooth bivalved spathe; flowers parted from each 
other by single membranous concealed bractes, expanding 
in succession, seldom two at once, tender, fugacious, of a 
pale violet or grey colour; each of the three large extended 
outer segments overlapping the other by one of its edges in- 
dependently of the small inner alternating connivent ones, 
a disposition usual to the whole of the segments in the CO- 
rolla of the Conrorrx; but, “as far as our observation has 
reached, an anomaly in that of the Ensarz. The ulti- 
mately refracted group of stigmas of some of the species 
is likewise a peculiarity. ibis 
The genus comes nearer to Anisrea and Wirsenra, than 
to any others we are acquainted with. The present appetla- 
tion has been assigued it by Mr. Brown, in his valuable 
work on the New Holland plants, in commemoration of 
his friend, Colonel Paterson, formerly Lreutenant-Governor 
of the colony of New South Wales; a gentleman whose 
name has been long familiar to the naturalist. In adopting 
it, a slight passe-droit is manifestly offered to Monsieur 
Labillarditre, by whom the genus had been previously 
established under the name of GeEnosirts; less distinctly 
indeed, and from a single species. 
% Belongs to the greenhouse ; thrives in peat-earth, and. 
requires a plentiful supply of water in the summer season. _ 
aA flower attached to its prism-shaped germen, and deprived of its three- 
Jarger segments, to show the three minute inner ones, the partially mona- 
delphous stamens and the stigmas. 4 The stamens and the refracted stig- 
mas; somewhat magnified, : : 
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