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branches often flowerless ; flowers intricate-paniculated ; 

 bracts quite short ; sepals narrow, firm, acute, in part 

 greenish ; petals broad, obtuse, extensively purplish, 

 tender membranous ; anthers six, particularly slender 

 upwards ; fruit small, globular ; seeds few, black outside. 



T. dichotomus. 



Stem unbranched in its lower portion ... ... 1857 



1857. Flowers in an interrupted seldom divided raceme. 



Dwarf ; root-fibres tuberously thickened towards the outer 

 end ; leaves all basal, linear, abbreviated, flaccid, fugacious; 

 stalklets two or three together or umbellately more, often 

 quite short ; sepals narrow, firm, acute ; petals broad, 

 obtuse, tender-membranous, extensively purplish ; anthers 

 six, slender particularly upwards ; seeds few, black 

 outside. Figure 119. T. Baueri. 



Flowers in a panicle. 



Often rather dwarf ; root-fibres tuberously thickened towards 

 the outer end ; basal leaves usually elongated, flaccid, 

 linear, somewhat channelled ; stalklets solitary or from 

 two to four together ; sepals narrow, firm, acute, in part 

 greenish; petals extensively purplish, broad, obtuse, 

 tender - membranous ; anthers six, slender particularly 

 upwards ; fruit small, almost globular ; seeds few, black 

 outside. T. tuberosus. 



HERFOIiIRION. 



1858. Flowers almost sessile between the short rigid leaves. 



Leaves linear, acute, somewhat distichous ; sepals and 

 petals elongated, persistent, bluish particularly inside ; 

 the former lanceolar-linear ; the latter almost elliptic- 

 linear ; anthers narrow, yellow ; style filiform, rather 

 long ; stigma minute ; fruit very small, globular ; seeds 

 several, somewhat ellipsoid. H. Novae Zelandiae. 



SOWERBAEA. 



1859. Sterile filaments present between the antheriferous 



stamens. 



Never tall ; stem branchless and bractless ; leaves almost 

 filiform, somewhat rigid ; umbel many-flowered ; bracts 

 small, but forming an involucre ; stalklets short ; flowers 

 rather small ; sepals slightly pointed ; petals blunt ; anthers 

 less than half as long as the sepals and petals ; fruit 

 very small, globular ; seeds slightly rough, black out- 

 outside. S. juncea. 



