j6o Dr. Smith'j Dcfcript'wn ofSowcrbcca juncea, 



well as the ftrui?hure of its parts, proves it to be truly hexandrous, 

 though at firft fight it might feem triandrous. 



We are as yet acquainted with but one fpecies of this genus, dif- 

 covered by Mr. White near Port Jacklbn in New South Wales, and 

 now not unfrequent in the nurferies about London. It requires the 

 fhclter of a grecnhoufc, and thrives beft in bog earth with a con- 

 fiderable degree of moiflure. It may be named 



SOWERBiEA JUNCEA. 



Root of many long fimple fibres. 



Herb fmooth. • 



Leayes radical, flieathing, upright, linear, fharp-pointed ; channelled 



above; convex beneath. 

 Sttpula within the leaf, fimple, white, membranous, obtufe, concave. 

 Slalk folitary, taller than the leaves, eredl, fimple, naked, round, 



fmooth, folid. 

 Umbel terminal, many-flowered, fpreading. 

 BraElcce feveral, ovate, coloured, Ihorter than the umbel. 

 Floiver-Jlalks fimple, thread-like, fingle-flovvered, naked. 

 Calyx none. 



Petals fix, equal, ovate, pale purple, fpreading, permanent. 

 Filaments fmooth, greenifti. 

 Anther ce yellow. 

 Cermen fuperior, roundilh, fmooth, with three principal furrows and 



three fmaller intermediate ones. 



Style ere6l, rather longer than the (lamina. 



Sligma fimple. ' 



Capfule 



