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THYSANOTUS intricatus. 
Entangled Thysanotus. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA & HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Vat. Ord. LIiLIACEZ. : 
THYSANOTUS. Botanical Register, vol. 8. fol. 655. 
T. intricatus ; caulibus teretibus glabris sulcatis, ramis divaricatis ultimis 
furcatis, folis squamzeformibus, peduneulis rigidis aneipitibus subbi- 
floris, staminibus 6 styloque decurvis. 
T. intricatus. Bot. Register, 1838. miscell. 111. 
Caulis diffusus, angulatus, glaber, 2-3 pedes longus, alte sulcatus, basi teres ; 
ramis rigidis, intricatis, div@ricatis, denique furcatis, sensim tetragonis, ultimis 
pedunculos efficientibus elongatis ancipitibus apice1-3-floris. Foliaminima, rigida, 
ovata, carinata, utrinque uninervia, sepids viridia, nunc sphacelata. Pedicelli 
basi foliis duobus pluribusve oppositis, sphacelatis v. scariosis, aliquando in 
unifloris deficientibus, bracteati, medio articulati. Flores violacei, pollicem 
lati. Sepala pedicellis duplo longiora, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, quinque- 
costata, herbacea, margine petaloidea. Petala fimbriata, in medio herbacea, 
tricostata. Stamina 6, violacea, declinata ; antheris apice emarginatis, basi 
cordatis, alternis brevioribus. Ovarium triloculare, trigonum ; ovulis in medio 
loculorum geminis, collateralibus, pendulis; stylus subulatus, violaceus, antheris 
longior. Descriptio ad spontaneam. 
A pretty Swan River plant, introduced by Robert Mangles, 
Esq. of Sunning Hill. When it was drawn for this work I 
only knew it from its Garden state, in which it formed a mass 
of weak trailing branches, with numerous flowers at the ex- 
tremity, and its specific character was so framed as to express 
that circumstance. I now however find, from wild specimens in 
my possession, that its branches are naturally rigid, and short 
jointed, and that the supposed debility of the plant arose 
from its being drawn up in cultivation. Its flowers, which 
when expanded are beautiful, are produced either singly, or 
in twos and even threes, at the end of one of the forks into 
which the branches ultimately divide, and it always happens, 
in the wild state, that of such forks the arm which bears the 
flowers is very much longer than the other. 
