44 CXXVII, LILIACER. [ Zhysanotus. 
Stamens 6, 8 of them longer — the others. —Baker in Journ. Linn, | 
Soc. xv. 988; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 69; Bot. Mag. t. 2851; Bot. Reg, | 
t. 656 ; Chlamysporum juno fib: Salis, Parad. Lond. t t. 108. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Wooils, and others; 
Hastings River, Beckler ; Newcastle, Leichhardt. i 
17. T. dichotomus, R. Br. Prod. 284.—Rhizome thiek, horizontal | 
when old, with fibrous roots without tubers. Radieal lentos few, short, | 
or very flexuose and repeatedly forked so as to be as intricate as in I 
T. Patersoni, rarely almost twining, when much branched the lower f 
branches without flowers, and all leafless except the very small n: 
terminal, reduced to 1 or 2 or si 9 flowers, the braets very small, i 
long, often very deeply coloured in ihe dry state. Stam mens 6, the anthers 
of the 3 longer ones usually ending in long beaks.—Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xv. 339; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 69; Ornithog galum dichotomum, 
Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 88, t. 109; Th ysanotus divaricatus, R. Br. - 
Prod. 284; T. sparteus, He Br, l. c. 283 ; Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 97; 
Baker in Journ . Linn. Soc. xv. 888; T. i intricatus, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 
97; Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 4; T. anceps, Endl. l.c. not of Lindl.; T. Lind- | 
leyanus, Endl. l.e 
Victoria. cums River, Robertson, F. Muelle 
tralia. 
S. Aus St. Vincent’s Gulf and pepan Island, F. Mueller ; Port Lin- 
coln, Wilhelmi. 
W. Australia. pig George's Soia, Labillardiér ne R. Brown, and many others, 
and thence to Swan and Murchison Rivers, Drummond, n. 19,, 312, Oldfield, Preiss, 
n. ua [Mes 1565, 1569, Mida others; eastward to Cape Le egrand and Esperance o" 
Mazwe 
This species is so variable in habit that. , Seeing only the extremes, it is difficult to 
believe that they ought - be considered as varieties only, but with the large herbaria 
of Kew and of F. Muell 
little-branched habit ond of T. resi e the very intricate and flexuose Mem 
mous specimens with the aspect almos some forms of 7. Patersoni, that I we | 
i Labi 
unable to draw any definite lines of Mepitétiak mar arietie 
ic is € much branched, and the leaves M represented as incar and 
hispid as well wm m of the stem, but I pei n only a v few 
q e ter In m ens the leaves have quite de 
a dan dien pak a is glabrous. d. de deformis R. Br. has the 
ee not numerous, very flexuose and ent, with but few edo 
ost 
flexuos - Br. l. c. 284, is a dwarf and very intricately-branched form. f 
petis and T. gracilis, R, Br. l. c. 283, appear to me both to be very slender and 
elongated states of the species, although Baker retains them istinct under 
the latter t Of T. tenuis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 50, we have o specimen 
from the figure it may possibly be a reduced form of 7. dichotomus, of which it has 
the short pedicels and other characters, egdi grege appear to be different. 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. eres the same as 7, tenellus, End, — 
above, p. 40, S 
