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BLANDFORDIA nobilis. 
Scarlet Blandfordia. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. I. Germen superum. 
BLAND HemerocaLtivem. Brown prod. 1. 295. 
tubo imont! FORDIA. Cor. tubulosa, ore sexlobo, marcescens. Stam, 
Stylus ite Anthere basi extinctoriiformi affixee. Germ. pedicellatum. 
Neulo ot atus. Stig. simplex. Caps. prismatica, tripartibilis, partialibus 
testa lava ene dehiscentibus. Sem. biseriata, marginibus sutura inserta, 
 “< ’aXa pubescenti. 
dilatatis @ perennes. Radix fibrosa. Fol. radicalia linearia elongata, bast 
pley,  p°Mtvaginantibus ; caulina distantia, abbreviata. Caulis teres, sime . 
erect; . eee terminalis, indivisus. Pedicelli floriferi recurvi, fructifert 
’3 bast bibracteati, bracted altera interiore laterali minore.  Affinitate 
Prox; S Sr 
me accedit HEMEROCALLIDI cerulee. Brown prod. 1. 295. 
B. nog;7; 
"pili, bracteis pedunculo florifero dupld brevioribus, . foliis angusto- 
faribus. Brown 1. c. 296. 
landfouts 
mpordia nobilis. Smith exot. bot. 1. 5.t.4. Aiton’s Epitome. 364; in 
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chat tizoma horizontale, carnosum. Folia radicalia plura, ambientia, a plano 
» erecto-patentia, vic duas lineas latitudine excedentia, canaliculato- 
*xplicat 
ca, . ; 
% carinata, tandém margine revoluta. ; 
N ae of the few ornamental liliaceous plants yet found in 
his olland, and adopted by Sir James Edward Smith, in 
they Xotic Botany, as the basis of a separate genus. Ano- 
Dies ghecics; belonging, like this, to the neighbourhood of 
Brows ackson, has been subsequently observed by Mr. 
repion and recorded in his Prodromus of the Flora of those 
bo ‘tod Ae ee it is ranked in an ordinal group, first em- 
thee in that work under the title of Hemerocallideee, 
Lilig ordinates of which scarcely differ from those of the 
corel of Jussieu, except in having the lower part of the 
un} a tubular, and not divided to the base. The ALETRIS 
cea of Labillardiére is considered by Mr. Brown rather 
eee noose of his B. grandiflora than of the present 
ae i drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in 
and ypase in the greenhouse of Messrs Whitley, Brames, 
Ba ine, at Fulham, and had been imported from Botany 
Y- We are told that it is the first sample which has 
