d you ¢ , 159. Es itg 5 : e. 4 
XXVI. Defeription of Sowerbæa jungea, a Plant f New South w ales 
t4 gens Beia boil , M. D. F. R. S. P. L.S. 
Read uly 2, 1799. 
‘HE effenttial charaéter of the genus of Sewerbea is rade 
| _publifhed in the fourth volume of the Linnean Society's Trani- | 
actions, p. 218, as follows : 7 
- Corolla infera, hexapetala. - Filamenta. tria, biantherifera, fterilibus 
tribus interítin&is. : 
It belongs to the Order of Afphodeli of M. de Juffieu, ssid fhould 
be arranged in the fame fettion with Alum, One part of the cha- 
racter of that feétion, 7 adix, bulbofa, requires however to be omitted, 
as being neither neceffary to -difcriminate M nor applicable to 
the genus before us. 
Sowerbæa is ftrikingly diftinguithed from every plant of the fame 
natural order by having two antherz upon each filament, each of | 
which confifts of two cells, and burfts by two pores at the top. 
Between the filaments which bear anthera, three fhort blunt barren 
"ones are inferted. The antherz feparately confidered agree in ftruc- 
ture and master of burfting with M. de Lamarck's genus of Dia- _ 
nella, Juf. Gen. 41 ; but in that each ftands on its own filament, : 
and the fruit moreover is a berry. 
In the Linnean Sytem Sewerbea muft be placed between Aphy 
. jme and Allium in Hexandria Monogynia; for every analogy, as 
" we 
