330 AN FICOIDEJE. LNS 
N. Au stralia. N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham, Bynoe. 
Queensland. Dawson e: Burnett rivers, and Peak Downs, F. Mueller; Funnel 
Creek, Bowman, 1 
| N.S. Wales. Darling desert to Cooper's Creek, Victorian Expedition, Howifs — 
Expedition, ete. | 
` 9. T. crystallina, Vai, DC. Prod. iii. 352. Glabrous or slightly pu- 
bescent or covered with little transparent vesicles, discs ate or diffuse, the wiry 
dichotomous stems sometimes extending to 1 or 2 ft., sometimes short and 
compact. Leaves from oval-oblong to Kugener? Flowers small, in axillary — 
cymes or clusters, much shorter than the leaves. Calyx about 1} lines long, ` 
‘the lobes ye obtuse, spreading, rather longer than the tube. Stamens 5. 
Ovary of 1 carpel, truncate, with 2 erect ovules : style excen ntrical, Capsule 
‘short and broad, the top concave, forming a short broad cup round the style. 
eds 2, granular, flat, obliquely superposed.— Wight and Arn. Prod. 355; 
F. Muell. Fra agm.i. 171; T. glaucifolia, ^ Muell, Fragm. i. 172. 
N. Australia i Victoria river, F. Mueller ; in the interior, M*Douall Stuart. 
sland. Broad Sound, R. Brown; Santa? n and Dawson rivers, F, Mueller ; 
Que 
Cape riv ow 
The SC is common in tropical Asia and Africa. 
3. T. pilosa, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 174. — Procumbent, from a few inches 
to above 2 ft. in length, hirgute, with spreading hairs, particularly long and 
‘dense about the inflorescence. Leaves obovate, narrowed in rather long 
petiole, the largest attaining about lin. Flowers in axillary sessile clusters. 
Calyx when full grown about 3 lines "ef lobes ovate-lanceolate, very opet, 
as long as the t abe, Stamens about 20. "Ovary of 1 carpel, the style lateral, 
below the end, which soon closes round it; ovules 2. Capsule included in 
the calyx, produ ced into a cylinder concave or cup-shaped at the top I? 
the eg cireumseiss about the middle of the basal seed-bearing wre 
N.W. coast, Byz . Cunningham ; Nicho 
De Gray, r, Rid] ey's opui: desert be betwee Haker s et Stu ^s Creeks, F. Meri 
ilindi 0 of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Bro 
ther dei, ` 
dE F. Muelt. pe i. 113. deen ue ite, dm 
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the style terminal; ovules about 4 or 5. Capsule rather broad, ac iy 
cumsciss below the middle. Seeds 2 to 5, superposed, compressed, elegan 
marked with radiating rows of papilla 
N. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. v 
rhynchocalyptra, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 114. Perennial, Es 3 
dense prostrate tufts, sometimes only 2 or 3 in. diameter, someti +h gel 
at the base, the branches extending to 6 in., more or less hirsute, Wi 
bristly or soft spreading hairs. Leaves oval or oblon ng, obtuse, rar ded, 
in. long, narrowed into a short petiole. sien — ani dut ooi 
though solitary in each axil. Calyx thin and membranous, rather Jong. 
about 2 lines long or rather more when in fruit, the pes scarcely st info 
the tube, Stamens about 10. Ovary of 1 carpel obliquely ; 
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