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more or less depressed.  Pericar dera TM Seed horizontal or 
oblique. Testa membrano us; em 
glabrous or in one species s abre Leaves narrow, alternate. Flowers 
n genus is » ee Basi. It has the hard perianth of Selerolena ki Ani- 
sacantha, but Ad sr; no vd es or (in one species) very short erect "cbe differs 
If, nere slight differences in the perianth and seed are ta en in in 
the four species here included m ight be SeT as forming as many gene 
Perianth without appendages or hollow base. Seed with an 
ascending rostellum 
Fruiting perianth 14 cs es long, scarcely oblique at the top . . 1. T. di 
dA dn xd ine Jong, very oblique and ptm 8 on one oy del 
Nah xil. a oa hollow base below the fruit. 
erianih 1 to Ed ee long, with 5 small dorsal erect ns 
p e. hori 3. T. brevicuspis. 
erianth 4 t li 
Willi à de to lines long, vi without spi ines. Sood very ob blique, 4. T. haloragoides. 
l. T. diffusa, R. Br. Prod. 410. A Ea difta 16 Ary 
undershrub, sometimes very small, sometimes extending to l or 
with shortly ascending branches 
eshy. 
Eun 127; Nees in Pl. Preiss LG; 
Ju Me Promontory, F. Mue 
T nia. Kent's Drunk Bane "s astra v Brown ; seashore E. of George Town, 
Aus mera Hola t Bay, F. Mueller. 
im Aus patie orgie Sound, R. — - Bald Island, po red N. W. 
e head of veg vies Bight, Delisser ; Swan ri r, Preiss, n. 1235 (.Mo — : 
gam amm Leaves flatter, roade and more praen but small.—Lucky Bay, 
rk Hartog’s Island, Miln i 
2. T ag F. Muell. Fragm. Y 4-19. X prostrate or diffuse 
oe Mu pm than 7. diffusa, i quite glabrous. Leave 
mucronate-acute or obtuse, 
A 
on : 
petiole, Diod lin.long. Flower very small, the puo not 4 line 
the} bade? oblique, with 4 short thin lobes. Styles 2, shortly united at 
ruiting perianth about $ line long, nearly globular but 
