62 CXXVII. LILIACER. [Sowerbaa. 
ones of a firmer "posten rather larger and acute. Pedicels at po 
seareely exeeeding the bracts, lengthening as the flower expands, 
rarely longer than the big d: Perianth pink, the segments Ae 
oblong; 8 lines long or rather more, all affixed at about the same level. 
Anther- "bearing filaments very short and flattened, alterna ating wi 
many nearly similar but without anthers; anthers usually attaining to 
about half the perianth, divided almost to their cordate base. Seeds 
usually about 8 in the capsule.—R. Br. Prod. 285; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 
81; Bot. Mag. t. 1104; Red. Lil. t. 841. 
rc Moreton Island, M*Gillivray, F. Muel 
S. Wa 
s. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, y^ Brown, Sieber, n. 198, and. 
Ly Miat. n. 52. pP Cunningham, and others ; northward to Hastings River, Bechler ; 
Ric Axe River, Henderso n. 
ria. Gipps Land, Latrobe River, F. Mueller ; Cape Howe, Walter. 
2. S. laxiflora, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 10 mee near S. junced, 
with the same habit inflorescence and narrow grass-like leaves. Stems 
varying from very slender and under 1 ft. to father stout and 14 or 2 ft., 
and sometimes slightly branched at the base. Leaves crowded at the 
asit of > stem but sometimes extending some way hee the sheaths less 
prominent than in S. juncea and sometimes not at all searious. Umbels 
loose, the filiform pedicels often at length much longer than the perianth. 
Perian , the segments about 3 lines long, much narrower than in S. 
juncea. Anthers reaching to considerably above the middle of the Dt 
alternating with staminodia as in S. juncea.—F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 87. 
W. Australia, King tag aid s Sound to Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. and n. 
782, Preiss, n. 1552, F. Muelle ; and many others; Murchison River, Oldfield. 
9. S. alliacea, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 180.— Habit and foliage of the 
slenderer D: of S. juncea, but with the stem sometimes slightly 
branehed a t the base. Inflorescence the same but the flowers much 
3 xd Liverpool River, Arnhem's Land, Gulliver. 
95. ALANIA, Endl. 
Perianth persistent, of 6 equal narrow segments. Stamens 6, hypo- 
gynous, nearly as long as the perianth, filaments filiform; anthers 
small, ovate, the eells opening inwards by longitudinal slits, Ovary 
sessile, ovoid, 3-celled, with few ovules in each cell ; style short, recurved, 
the stigma almos t capitate. Capsule globular, opening loculieidally in 3 
valves. Seeds few or only one in each cell, oblong, without any strophiole ; 
testa crustaceous black smooth and shining.—Perennial with diffuse 
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