160 Dr. Smitu’s Defcription of Sowerbees juncea, 
well as the ftructure of its parts, proves it to be truly baxgndróus 
though at firft fight it might : feem triandrous. à 
We are as yet acquainted with but one fpecies of this genus, “dit 
- covered by Mr. White near Port Jackfon i in New South Wales, and 
now not unfrequentin the nurferies about London. lt. requires the. 
fhelter of a greenhoufe, and thrives beft in bog care with a con- 
fiderable degree: of moifture. It may be named | 
na I 
SOWERBAEA JUNCEA: 
: Roit of many long imple f fibres. : pu : | 
Leaver ouem [ocio md hs tissu LAT 
above; convex beneath. 
Stipula within the leaf, fimple, white, membranous, obtufe, concave. 
: Stalk folitary, taller than ge. dars, erect, seals, ards Hi jpund, 
- dmooth, {olid - De on RES 
Unlel terminal, ree Toreadiie- 
Bracke feveral, ovate, coloured, íhorter than the umbel, 
Flower-flalks fimple, thread-like, fi ee ae naked. 
Calys none. ae 
Petals fix, cuin doi, pale purples fpreadi TA 
Filaments {mooth, greenifh. © | : 
Anthera yellow.  — | | 
Germen fuperior, roundifh, bud with three principal furrows and 
three fmaller intermediate ones. | 
- Spic ercét, rather longer than the ftamina, 
Sigma (imple; 
