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Telrat/ieca,'] xiil. tkemandre^. 133 



long as tliemselves or nearly so. Ovary slightly glandidar, with 2 ovules in 

 each cell. CapsiJe broadly ovate or obovate, shortly pointed, 3 to 5 lines 

 long, with membranous valves. Seeds hairy. 



W. Australia, King George's Sound, K Broivn, Huegel ; Brummond, Coll. 1843, 

 n. 73, and otliers; Gordon river, Oldfield, 



Var. pfaft/caula. Branches, including the wings, often 2 lines broad, riowers and cap- 

 sules rather larger, and 4 ovules in superposed pairs in each cell of the ovary. — Drummoad^ 

 ColL 1813, n. 115 ; Blackwood and Stirling ranges, Oldjleld. 



9- T, nuda^ LhidL Swan Riv, Jpp, 38. Glabrous or with a few glan- 

 dular hairs at the base of the stem, and sonietinies on the pedicels and 

 sepals. Hhizome woody, with numerous erect, slender, rigid but rush-like 

 stems, cylindrical, without prominent angles, f to 1^ ft. high, often ending 

 lu an almost pungent point. Leaves xery minute and distant, or a veiy few 

 linear or oblont^ ones 2 or 3 lines lon^r. Pedicels slender, 2 to 3 lines lonu^. 

 bepals and petals 5 each. Anthers tapering into a tubular process, very short 

 in the typical form, and of the same colour as the rest. Ovary covered with 

 rather long glandular hairs, with 1 ovule in each cell. Capsule obovate, 

 gland idar-hairy. Seeds glabrous, smooth and sliiuing. 



VT. Australia. Darling range. Collie, Oldjield ; Swan River, Drummond^ \st ColL, 

 Sanford, 



Var. sjpariea. Planch, in TIerb. Hook. Tubular process of the authers nearly as long ai 

 the (idh.—Drummond, ColL 1843, n. 101 and 104. 



10. T, virgata, Sleetz, in PL Pre'm. i. 212. Very nearly allied to T. 

 nuda, and perliaps a variety, but the branches are much more slender, often 

 filiform, glabrous or scabrous, with a few glandular hairs : the leaves are much 

 more frequently developed, especially on the barren branches, where however 

 they are still few and distant, linear with revolute margins, 2 to 3 lines long; 

 the flowers appear to be always 4-merous, and the anthers more abruptly 

 contracted into a slender tube, usually of a paler colour, and as long as the 

 eells. Ovary glabrous, with uniovulate cells. Capsule obovate, about 3 lines 

 long, with smooth shining seeds. 



Mr, Australia. Swau lllver, Driunmond, ^th ColL n. 2-43, PreL'S, n, 1332, in part i 

 Mount Barker, Kalt?an and Blackwood rivers, Oldjield, , , ■ , 



Var. setirjera, Steetz, 1. c. 213. Stems very scabrous, and often with rellexed bristly 

 hair's. Leaves more numerous. — Swau Eiver, Dnunmond, Prem, n, 1333. 



IK T, confertifolia, Steeh, in PL Preiss. l 214. Stems numerous, ■ 

 erect and simple, or branched and diffuse or ascending, usually 6 to 9 m. long, 

 rouglily pubescent. Leaves crowded but not verticillate, linear, obtuse, 2 to 

 3 lines long, the. margins much revolute so as to be almost terete, hispid with 

 rigid liairs. Pedicels | to nearly 1 in. long. Flowers 5-merous. Sepals 



lanceolate. Petals rather narrow, 4 to 5 lines long. Anthers ghibrous or 



W. Australia. Swau lliver, Brummond, Uh ColL n. 244; Darling rmigcs, Fn^ss, 

 »• 1328, 1329. 



12. T. setigera, EudL in Ilueg. Enunu 8. Stems rather rigid, liot 

 Jnuch branched, usually about I ft. high, hispid with spreadmg bristly hairs, or, 



