Refugiiim Botanicum.] 
[March, 1871. 
TAB. 260. 
Natural Order Liliace^. 
Tribe Milled. 
Genus Symea [Baker). Periantliium viride, basi breviter campanulato- 
gamophyllum, segmentis 6 ovato-lanceolatis, flore expanse patenti- 
bus, interioribus distincte latioribus et brevioribus. Stamina fertilia 
3, ad faucem tubi inserta, filamentis brevibus filiformibus basi dda- 
tatis, antheris parvis oblongo-votunclatis, cum staminodiis 3 minutis 
linearibus membranaceis alteruantibus. Ovarium sessile, in tubo 
inclusum, triloculare, ovulis in loculo binis ; stjdus brevis, rectus, 
clavato-filiformis ; stigma punctiforme. Capsulam nondum vidi. 
Herba chilensis raclice tuberose folio unico lineari carnoso-herbaceo 
floribus umbellatis. 
S. GiLLESioiDES (Baker). Folio lineari solitario pedunculo 3 — 4-plo 
excedente, umbellis 3 — 4-floris, perianthii segmentis interioribus 
latioribus brevioribus. 
A native of Chili, discovered and sent to Mr. Saunders by 
Mr. E. C. Eeed. 
Base of the stem tuberous, with a tuft of fleshy fibres and the 
new corm on one side of them. Leaf solitary, clasping the base 
of the stem, linear, six to seven inches long, three to four lines 
broad downwards, fleshy-herbaceous, bright green, glabrous, 
deeply channelled down the face. Scajpe slender, terete, green, 
erect, two to three inches long. Floivers three to four in an 
umbel subtended by a pair of linear membranous bracts. Deve- 
loped loeclicels six to nine lines long. Perianth three-eighths of 
an inch deep, green ; the tube very short, campanulate ; the 
divisions ovate-lanceolate, not ribbed, the inner three distinctly 
shorter and broader than the outer ones. Stamens three, inserted 
at the throat of the tube alternately with three minute linear 
membranous staminodia ; the short erect fleshy filament equalling 
the roundish-oblong anther, both together under a line long. 
Ovary immersed in the tube, the clavate style rising out of it, the 
stigma punctiform. Ovides tw^o in each cell. 
We have named this very distinct new genus — which occupies 
a position intermediate betw^een Gilliesia on the one hand, and 
Leucocoryne and Brodicea on the other — in honour of J. T. 
Boswell Syme, Esq., LL.D., of Balmuto House, Kirkcaldy, Fife- 
shire, as a tribute of acknowledgment of the pains he has taken 
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