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Original Articles. 
ON SYMEA, A NEW GENUS OF TRIANDROUS LILIACEA 
| FROM CHILI. 
By J. G. Baker, F.L.S. 
(Pirate CXXI.) 
MEA, Baker, Refugium Botanicum, sub t. 260. “ Perianthium 
viride, basi breviter campanulato-gamophyllum; segmentis 6, to- 
lanceolatis, flore expanso patentibus, interioribus distincte latioribus et 
brevioribus. Stamina fertilia 3, ad faucem tubi inserta, filamentis brevi- 
bus filiformibus basi dilatatis, antheris parvis oblongo-rotundatis, cum 
staminodiis 3 minutis linearibus membranaceis alternantibus. Ovarium 
sessile, in tubo inclusum, ovulis in loculo binis; stylus brevis, rectus ; 
stigma punctiforme. Capsulam nondum vidi. Herba chilensis, radice 
tuberosa, folio solitario lineari carnoso-herbaceo, floribus umbellatis. 
gillesioides, Baker, the only known species. 
“ We have named this very distinct new genus, which occupies a position 
intermediate between Gilliesia on the one hand and Leucocoryne an 
Brodiea on the other, in honour of J. T. Boswell Syme, Esq., LL.D., of 
Balmuto House, Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, as a tribute of acknowledgment 
of the pains he has taken, and the ability which he has displayed, in 
marshalling and describing the plants of Britain in the now nearly- 
completed third edition of Sowerby’s * English Botany ;° and as desirous, 
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