140 CRASSULACES. [Tillea. 
sometimes cymose. Calyx 3-d-lobed or -partite. Petals 3-6, free 
or connate at the base. Stamens the same number as the petals. 
Hypogynous scales 1 to each carpel or wanting. Carpels 3-0, nar- 
rowed into short styles; ovules 1 or more to each carpel. Follicles 
few- or many-seeded. 
An almost cosmopolitan genus, comprising about 25 species. Two of those 
found in New Zealand also occur in Australia, and another in temperate South 
America, the Falkland Islands, and Kerguelen Island. Several of the New 
Zealand species are imperfectly known, and require careful study with recent 
specimens before satisfactory diagnoses can be prepared. 
* A small scale at the base of each carpel. 
Stems 2-7in., red-brown. Leaves 3~-jin., oblong-spathu- 
late. Flowers large, 4-}in. diam. . 5e .. 1. ZL. moschata. 
Stems 2-4in., reddish. Leaves }— -tin., linear, acute. 
Flowers Big gg Dee) ste 2. T. Helmsu. 
Stems 1-3in., reddish, slender, “matted. Leaves 7~y-} in., 
linear- oblong, obtuse. Flowers 7s in. 3. T. diffusa. 
Minute, delicate, matted, often less than lin. high. 
Leaves linear- oblong, fleshy, concave, s4—7;in. Flowers 
white, +-j,in. .. Bh at 50 .. 4. T. Sinclairn. 
Prostrate and rooting, intricately branched, matted. 
Leaves thin, obtuse or subacute, ;.-;,in. Petals 
rather longer than the calyx 5. T. pusilla. 
Prostrate and rooting, intricately branched. Leaves thin, 
acute or apiculate, .—),in. Petalsshorter than thecalyx 6. T. acutifolia. 
Stems decumbent and ascending, red-purple, ?-2in. 
Leaves ovate-subulate, fleshy, concave. Flowers /,—4 in. 
Seeds8 .. se Be aye 36 .. 7. T. multicaulis. 
** No scales. 
3 tems erect, simple or branched, red-brown, 1-5 in. 
Leaves oblong, subacute, fleshy. Flowers minute, in 
dense leafy clusters 8. 7. Sieberiana. 
Stems delicate, intricately branched, ‘prostrate, 2-3in. 
Leaves linear-oblong, Bree s- yin, Petals ovate- 
acuminate 9. ZT. debilis. 
Minute, delicate, tufted, 4-2 in. “high. “Peduncles slender, 
much elongated i in fruit. Carpels many-seeded .. 10. T. purpurata. 
T. Hamiltonii, T. Kirk ex W. Hamilton in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 
92, is Tetrachondra Hamiltonii, Petrie ex Oliv. in Ic. Plant. t. 2250 (order 
Borage). 
1. T. moschata, D.C. Prodr. iii. 382.—A small tufted succu- 
lent red-brown herb; stems 2-7 in. long, prostrate and rooting 
below, erect or ascending at the tips. Leaves connate at the 
base, thick and fleshy, $-$in. long, oblong-spathulate or linear- 
obovate or linear-oblong, obtuse. Flowers na in. diam., axillary, 
solitary; peduncles short. Calyx deeply 4-lobed; lobes obtuse, 
much shorter than the oblong obtuse petals. Seales 4, linear- 
cuneate, truncate at the tip. Carpels 4, turgid, obtuse; styles 
short, recurved. Seeds 6-8, rarely more.—Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 535 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 76; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 61; Kirk, Students’ 
Fl, 142. Bulliarda moschata, D’Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. iv. 
618; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 13. 
