to the plant now figured being the same which that 
gentleman had before him. The difference in the margins 
of the leaves of this plant and of B. nobilis is so remark- 
able, that we are persuaded it could not have escaped the 
notice of so acute an observer as Mr. Brown unless the 
specimens examined by him, at the time of the publication 
of the Prodromus, were in an imperfect state. It is also 
worthy of attention, with reference to any question of the 
identity of this B. grandiflora and that of Mr. Brown, that 
the Aletris punicea of Labillardiére, found at Van Dieman’s 
Island, and figured in his 111th plate, the leaves of which 
are described as minutely crenulated, is quoted with doubt 
as a synonym of Mr. Brown's B. grandiflora. Labillar- 
diére’s plant, indeed, if dependence can be placed upon the 
fidelity of either the figure or description given by its 
author, may be distinct from any described Blandfordia, 
the divisions of its perianthium being all ovate and acute, 
not alternately retuse and imbricated as in the species 
before us. 
Our drawing of this superb liliaceous plant was made 
at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, in August. The plant was 
growing in the open border of a new conservatory, where 
it flowered in great beauty and profusion. We are informed 
that it had been raised from seeds collected. in some part 
of New Holland by Mr. John Richargson; but Mr. Sweet 
tells us that he cultivated it several years ago, at Stockwell. 
A hardy, greenhouse, herbaceous plant, with numerous, 
rigid, pale-green, ensiform leaves, striated on each side, 
and serrated at the edge. Scape growing to the height of 
two or three feet, compressed, striated, and clothed with 
a few distant rigid taper-pointed scales. Raceme cylindri- 
cal, many-flowered, with solitary, large, pendulous, inflated 
flowers, having at their base two opposite ovate acuminate 
bracts, as long as the peduncle of the flower, the inner 
bract being, at least, twice as small as the other. After 
the flowering is completed, the peduncles become much 
elongated. The perianthiwm is orange-red, very: shewy, 
and remains in ‘perfection for a long time; its limb is 
6-lobed, the outer segments being ovate and obtuse, the 
inner broader and retuse. es 
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