^'^^^^^O XLTTI. CRASSULACE^f;. 451 



Anstralian spmca wo arc also in New Zealand, one of whirh extends also lo cxtrntroplcal 

 !5. America, the two others arc endemic. 



Flowers under 1 line long, axillary. Carpels short and obtuse. 



lowers in dense leafy clusters. Petals shorter than the sepals . . 1. T. verttdUaris. 

 Howers solitary, mostly pedicellate. Petals as long as or exceeding 

 the sej)als. 



leaves not 2 lines long. Pedicels usually longer. No scales un- 



der the carpels 2. Z purpurala. 



-Leaves often above i in. loo^. Pedicels rarely as long ns the 



leaves. A scale under each carpel ^, T. recurva. 



lowers above 1 line long, in a broad dichotomous or 3-chotomous 

 leafy panicle. Carpels oblong 3: T. macrantha. 



I omit Lasi/slemon cabjcimm, DC. Mem. Crass. 15. t. 3, and Prod. iii. 3S2, described 

 |"-om a plant from the Jardiu des Plantes of Paris, supposed to have been raised from Ans- 

 traJian seed,^ for it is evidently founded on a mistake. The stamens with thick ovoid fila- 

 nients, forming the chief character of the genus, are not so figured in the plate; probably 

 on a first hasty examination the carpels were taken for stamens. The plant appears to me 

 e trassula e^rpansa. Ait., a S. African not an Australian species, an error as to origin 

 ^ery common iu botanical gardens. 



. 1- T. verticillaris, BC. Prod iii. 383. An annual, when first flower- 

 ing simple and 1 in. high, but when old much branched^ forming dense tufts 

 j^ 3or 4 in. diameter, or slender and -i or 5 in. long. Leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late or linear, connate at the base, 1 to 3 lines long. Flowers very small in 



ense axillaryclusters mixed wath small leaves, many of them nearly sessile, 

 others on pedicels of 1 or 2 lines. Sepals usually 4^, very rarely 5, acute or 



^^tate, about ^ line long. Petals shorter, narrow, acute. Carpels without 

 scales, when ripe very obtuse, not exceeding the cnlvx, with 1 or 2 seeds in 

 5^" ,"^Hook. f. Fl. tasm. i. 145 ; T. pedunculata, Sieb. PL Exs., not of Sni. ; 



• ^^^^endens and T. colorata. Noes, in PI. Preiss. i. 277. 



yueensland. On the Maranoa, Mitchell ; Brisbane river, STorcton Bay, F, Mueller. 



otli ' ^'^ales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, JS, Brown, Sieber, n. 173, and 



y ji?' J^^^tlnvard to Hastings and Chircnce rivers^ i?*^^^/*?;*; sonthward to Twofold Day, 



' uellerj in the interior to Barrier range, Victorian Expedition, 



aud \^ ^^^^ Eoclvy and gravelly places, common in various parts of the colony, F. Mueller 



So f^^*^^^' Common on dry rocks and gravel in many parts of the island, /. D, 

 anf t'^^®*''*^^*- ^^'01^ Poi-t Lincoln, irilhelmi, to Bugle and Barossa ranges, F. Mueller; 



Kiv " "^^^^^a^ia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, and thence to Swan and Mnrehison 



^^^rummond, Mh Coll. n. 114, 115, Preiss, n, 1931, 1932, Oldfield, and others. 

 Mi«>.^ fPccies extends to New Zealand, and also to extratropical S. America, if T. rinnima^ 

 '^'^^s, be really the same. 



i . • "^* P^rpurata, TlooJc.f. in EooJc. Lond. Journ. vi. 472, and FL Tasm, 

 i • ' ^ ""'^n sl^wder decumbent annual of | to 1 in., rarely lengthening 



Flo ^"' ^^^""'^^ linear, connate at tbe base, 1 to H or rarely 2 lines lono^, 

 fjj J^^'^ ^^^inute, on slender solitary pedicels mostly longer tlian the leaves. 

 Pel 1 ^^'*" Petals about \ line long, sepals shorter, acute or obtuse, Car- 



js obtuse, not longer than the sepals, with several seeds.— F. Mnell. PI. 

 ^»ct.u. t. i9_ ^ ^ 



Vipf y^^^^s. Paramatta, B. Brazen, 



ciona. Wet pastures, very abundant in many parts of the colony, F. Mueller. 



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