( 2362.) 
TETRAGONIA EXPANSA. Hornep TETRAGONIA 
or New ZEALAND SPINACH. 
Class and Order. 
IcosaANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 3- s. 5-partitus. PetalaO. Drupa infera, nuce 4- s. 
8-loculari. : 3 
Specific Character and Synonyms. S 
Trrraconta expansa ; herbacea, foliis ovato-rhombeis, 
fructibus quadricornibus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1024. 
Hort. Kew. ed: alt. 3. p. 211. De Cand. Plantes 
grasses. t. 114. J. Anderson in trans. Horticult. Soe. 
ow. 4. p. 488. ; 
Trrraconta expansa ; herbacea, ramis expansis elongatis, 
foliis parabolicis, floribus plerumque solitariis, fructu 
cornuto.. Murray in Comment. Goetting. 1783. p. 13. 
t. 5. Scop. Delic. Insubr.. 1. p: 32. t. 42 
TrrRagonia expansa; foliis subcordatis ovatis punctatis, 
floribus axillaribus solitariis. Thunb. in Lin. Soc. 
Trans. 2. p. 335. 
Terraconia halimifolia ; herbacea, papulosa, foliis elliptico- 
rhombeis petiolatis, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris 
subsolitariis, fructu cornuto. Forst. Prodr. n. 223. 
Forst. Plant. esc. p. 67. n. 37. ; 
Tetraconia japonica; foliis subcordatis ovatis punctatis, 
floribus axillaribus solitariis. Thunb. Jap. 208. 
Terraconia cornuta. Gertn. fruct. 2. p. 483. t. 179. f-3. 
Demipovia tetragonoides. Pall. enwn. Hort. Demidorf. — 
p- 150. t. 1. teste Willd. ; 
Tetraconta expansa would certainly claim little notice 
for its beauty, but at the same time, it is a plant of some 
hotoriety, having been discovered by the late Sir Joserx 
Banks in Queen Charlotte’s sound, New Zealand, in pare 
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