Herpolirion.] CXXVIL LILIACEX. 61 
l. H. Nove-Zelandie, Hook. J. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 258.—Rhizom 
creeping, sending up numerous tufts of linear leaves, 1 to 2 in. long, their 
sheathing bases distichous and imbricated. Flowers solitary within the 
tuft, on an exceedingly short scape or peduncle, on whieh one or two of 
the upper or inner leaves are reduced to sheathing bracts shorter than 
the perianth. Perianth white or bluish, the segments 5-nerved, about 
3 m. long, Spreading from a little below the middle. Anthers shorter 
than the filaments, Shortly sagittate at the base. Fruit unknown, but 
from the slightly enlarged ovary probably capsular.—Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xv. 287 ; H. Tasmanie, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 258 and Fl. 
Tasm. ii. 54, t. 182 
“actoria. Between the Murray and Snowy Rivers and on the Baw Baw Moun- 
tains, ascending to 4500 ft., F. Mueller. ; 
Summits of the Western Mountains, Lake St. Clair, covering large 
patches of ground, Gunn ; Hampshire Hills, Milligan. 
94. SOWERBJEA, Sm. 
Perianth persistent without twisting, of 6 oblong or ovate segments, 
all free or the inner ones shortly connate at the base. Stamens 8 perfect, 
Opposite the inner segments at their base, with very short filaments, 
anthers erect divided to below the middle into 2 linear lobes opening 
laterally in longitudinal slits, the 8 opposite the outer lobes reduced to 
short filaments without anthers or entirely wanting. Ova short, 
but scarcely crustaceous black testa minutely granulated. Poupo anni, 
linear, in the centre of the albumen.—Tufted perennials with fibrous 
: m li filiform. 
leafless 
globular 
base of the pedicels. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
Perianth-segments about 3 lines long, all free. Staminodia 
P without anthers alternating with the perfect stamens. 
erianth-segments oval-oblong. Anthers about half their 
le Tadenpeena c uoc 7o a TURA EM. 
Perianth-se ents narrow-oblong. Anthers reaching to much 
6. 
gm 
Sem above their middle. Western specie et ie pak 
‘nianth-segments about 2 lines, the inner ones shortly united 
at the base. No staminodia. Northern species . . . . 
2. S. laxiflora. 
3. S. alliacea. 
e S. juncea, Sm, in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 160, t. 6.—Stems simple, 
eder, I to 2 feet high. Leaves at the base of the stem somewhat 
bordered at the base and sometimes up to nearly 2 in. 
Searions transparent sheathing margins. Umbel many-flowered, the 
"übrieate bracts either all very short and scarious or 2 or 8 of the outer 
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