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TETRATHECA hirsuta. 
Hairy Tetratheca. 
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OCTO-DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. TREMANDRACEA. 
TETRATHECA, Smith. Calyx 4-5-partitus. Petala 4-5. Stamina 
8-10; anthere biloculares, loculis szepe biloculatis, tubulo apicis dehiscentes. 
Ovarium biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Stylus € stigma simplex. Capsula 
bilocularis, compressa, loculicidé bivalvis. Semina in loculis solitaria, in- 
versa. Frutices ericoidei, interdum juncei; foliis parvis, alternis, verti- 
cillatisve, spe pilis glandulosis conspersis v. setosis.—Endl. Gen. 5644. 
T. hirsuta ; ramis tomentosis nunc setosis, foliis oblongis sparsis oppositisve 
subtus tomentosis supra hispidis, pedunculis setosis scabrisve, floribus 
entameris — Lindley, Sketch of Swan River Flora, p. xxxviii. 
Tremandra Hugelii, Hort. 
Where the name has been published which this pretty 
greenhouse plant bears in our gardens I have failed to ascer- 
tain. It is certainly no other than Tetratheca hirsuta, and 
by no means a Tremandra, if, as seems clear, the essential 
character of that genus consists in its anthers not terminating 
in a tube nor opening by a pore at the point. 
Messrs. Rollissons received it from Baron Hugel in the 
summer of 1843, and flowered it last March, when the 
accompanying drawing was made; it has since spread to 
many collections. 
Fig. 1. represents the stamens, with the calyx and corolla 
removed; 2. is an ovary, style, and stigma, with one side of 
a cell cut away to shew the curious ovule with its hooked 
point. 
It is a very nice greenhouse plant, gay with a starry 
blossoms. It grows freely in a compost of peat loam and 
sand in equal proportions, and if a few potsherds are mixed 
with it so much the better. In summer plenty of air and 
water should be given, and shade in sunny weather. In 
