Tremandrece.~\ FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
antheris apice tubo loculis \ breviore termmatk— DC. Prodr. i. MS j 
Sclmchardt, Spi. Tremandr. 33. (Gunn, 194.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, on heathy plains.— (Fl. Sept. Oct) {v. r.) 
Distrib. Southern and eastern extratropical Australia. 
Stems very much branched, forming little hushes 2-.] t'ect high, all parts hut the petals and stamens copiously 
covered with spreading, glandular hairs. Leaves scattered. J-J inch long, elliptical or oblong-la 
sharply deeply toothed, very variable in breadth. Flower* [-} inch diameter, ted, or rarely whit< 
vate-triangular, furrowed longitudinally on each valve ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds pilose, grooved towards the septum 
of the valve; testa yellow-brown.— The branches are sometimes t'aseiate.— Sehnckardt adds, on the authority of 
Kunth's Herbarium, Cape Van Piemen, in Melville Island, on the north ooad of Australia, u a habitat for this 
species ; but this is clearly a mistake. 
3. Tetratheca pilosa (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 95. t. 122); erecta, ramosa, paten! mi \ >. 
v. glabrata, pilis rarius glandulosis, foliis sparsis confertisve linearibus lineari-oblongiare I 
longis subtus glaucis marginibus subintegerrimis revolutis, floribus majusculis (£-§ unc), antheris apioe 
tubo loculis i breviore terminatis. — DC. Prodr. i. 342; Hook. Joum. Bed. i. ZiB. 
pilosa, Joum. Bot. ii. 408; Schnehirdt, Syn. Tremandr. 24. 
Var. a; foliis sparsis linearibua planiascnlifl scabrido-pilosis. [Gunn, 19:5.) 
Var. /3; foliis sparsis ut in a, glabratis. (Gunn, 21.) 
Var. 7; robusta, foliis subverticillaMs anguste linmribu< margini'tnis valde revolutis. 
Var. 8; foliis late ovato-oblongis amplia rabglandaloso-piloeig, 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, in poor soil. Var. /3. In still' clay soil.— i 
(v. v.) 
Distrib. Southern and eastern extratropical Australia. 
Chiefly disti foliage when dry, and narrow leave-, 
with less toothed and more revolute margins. Sometimes however, as in var. S, the leaves are very broad. Mr. 
Gunn only considers 3 as a distinct variety, because of its more slender i, liferent soil; to 
me however it seems less marked than the broad-leaved var. 8, whose leaves are upwards of £ inch broad (which 
however seems, according to Mr^ Gunn, to be directly caused by burning the bushes, a remarkable proof of the 
tendency to sport in the species) ; or than the small, robust var. y, with crowded, and often whorled leaves. My own 
idea of these varieties is. that they are merely induced In accidental associations of colour, soil, habit, etc., and 
that no two persons would approach to any confer] in tlu bland or in col- 
lections. Weak specimens of several forms are often supported by the bushes amongst which they grow. The 
flowers vary from deep red to white. Schuckardt has habitat for this 
as well as of T. glandulosa, no doubt erroneously. 
4. Tetratheca procumbens (Gunn, MSS.) ; parvula, ramulis gracilibus diffusis v. procumbentibus, 
tota glabrata vel sparse et remote scaberulo-pilosa, foliis subverticillatis oppositis sparsisvc (parvis) lineari- 
bus marginibus recurvis, floribus parvis sparsis brevitei pediceflatia, ovario glanduloso-piloso, antheris brevi- 
bus poro magno.— (Tab. VII. A.) [Gunn, 217, 309, 649.) 
Hab. Summit of the Western Mountains, elev. 3800 feet; also near the sea, on heathy plains, at 
Circular Head, etc., Gunn. (Fl. Dec.) 
Mr. Gunn considers this a most distinct species. I never saw it alive myself; and in the dried speci- 
mens can find no absolute characters, though it has a very distinct appearance. — Whole plant scarcely a span high, 
consisting of very numerous, slender, procumbent or ascending stems, glabrous, or scantily covered with scattered 
short rigid hairs. Leaves \-\ inch long, narrow, linear, rigid, with the margins revolute to the costa, more or less 
