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HF BLANDFORDIA grandiflora. 
Largeflowered Blandfordia. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord.. Hnmerocatiipex. Br. prodr. 1,295. 
BLANDFORDIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 286. 
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B. grandiflora; bracteis pedunculum floriferum subsequantibus: interiore 
minore, foliis serratis. oF 
B. grandiflora. Brown prodr. 1.296. - 
____ Aletris punicea. Lab. nov. holl. 1. p. 85. t. 1112 
‘a Folia rigida, erecta, letée-viridia, utrinque striata, margine serrata. 
___ Scapus erectus, 2-3-pedalis, compressus, Striatus, squamis rigidis acuminatis 
_ distantibus vestitus. Racemus cylindricus, multiflorus, floribus solitariis, 
___-pendulis, bracteatis : bracteis duabus pedunculi Jlorifert longitudine : exteriore 
«ovata acuminata interiore ad minimum dupld minore. Post anthesius pedun- 
cult multim elongantur. Perianthium ‘magnum, inflatum, rubro-auranti- 
acum, diu persistens, limbo 6-lobo: laciniis. extertoribus ovatis obtusis ; 
interioribus latioribus retusis. , : 
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- Ss _ At folio 286 of this work, will be found a representation 
of the original Blandfordia, upon which the genus was 
instituted by Sir James Edward Smith. The species now 
__ before us is distinguished from that by the greater size of 
its flowers, by the colour of its leaves, which are bright 
yellowish-green, not glaucous, and distinctly serrated 
____ towards the extremity, while those of B. xobilis never 
acquire, even in old dried specimens, any division of their 
margin, beyond a slight and minute cracking. In. this 
species the bractez are, during flowering, as long as the 
AB. nobilis they are at all periods much 
pedicels, but in B 
shorter. Yh 
The last-mentioned distinction is that upon which 
_ Mr. Brown founds his specific character of B. grandiflora ; 
a circumstance which excites some doubts in our mind as 
