148 FLORA OP TASMANIA. [Cu: 
strongly inclined to suspect that T. implexicoma is the male plant of it.— Stems decumbent, several feet long, 
branched, brittle, covered with yellow bark. Leaves petiolate, l|-2i inches long, ovate, ovate-triangular, or rhom- 
boid, acute or obtuse, quite entire, sometimes concave at the base, when they are almost hastate, pale green. 
Flowers solitary, axillary, on short peduncles, \ inch long. Drupes nearly \ inch long, with four horns, and some- 
times four other smaller ones alternating with them. — This plant is used as a spinach in New Zealand, and is very 
palatable ; it sometimes bears flowers at the tops of the horns of the fruit. 
2. Tetragonia implexicoma (Hook, fil.) ; caulibus decumbentibus v. elongatis erectis et scanden- 
tibus, foliis lineari-oblongis ellipticis rliombeisve punctis elevatis crystallinis opertis juiiioribus pilosis, 
pedunculis gracilibus, floribus parvis, calycis lobis inaequalibus lineari-oblongis subacutis, staminibus 12 
disco annulari insertis, stylis 2 elongatis, ovario 2-loculari. — Tetragonella implexicoma, Mia. in Plant. 
Preiss. i. 245. {Gunn, 737.) 
Hab. Abundant on all the coasts, sometimes festooning the bushes by the shore. — (Fl. Oct.) (v. v.) 
" Ice plant.*' 
Distrib. South coast of Australia. 
Having never found any of my numerous specimens of this plant, from Tasmania or Australia, to bear fruit, I 
am inclined to suspect that it is the male plant of T. expansa. It varies extremely in the size of its leaves, those of 
large-leaved specimens equalling the T. expansa, from which however it usually differs in the smaller size of all its 
parts, naiTower, lanceolate or oblong-rhomboid leaves, and long, slender pedicels. In its live state the surface of 
the leaves and young stems is covered with bullate watery cells, giving a crystalline look to the whole, whence its 
i.-. i 
Nat. Ord. XXXVI. CUNONIACExE. 
This Order, or Suborder of Saxifrages, as it is considered by many, differs from the latter in its 
shrubby or arboreous habit, persistent foliage, usually opposite leaves, and interpetiolar stipules. Tetra- 
carpaa, however, a doubtful member of the Order, has exstipulate, alternate leaves, and Bauera, an 
anomalous member, has no stipules. The greater number of the species are natives of the Southern 
Hemisphere, where they may be regarded as representing the Saxifrages of the north temperate zone, 
which are almost entirely absent. There are seven or eight Australian species of the Order, belonging to 
almost as many genera; they are almost exclusively confined to the east coast and Tasmania. 
Gen. I. ANODOPETALUM, A. Cunn. 
Calais lobi i, vulvati. Petala 4, parva, lanceolata, disco perigyno inserta. Stamina 8, cum petalis 
mserta; Jilamentu filiforniibus ; antheris cordatis, connectivo in processum producto. Ovarium liberum, 
24oculare ; otmlU paucie, pendulis ; st 7/v 2, -racilibus, divergentibus, liberis. Capsula bilocularis, bivalvis. 
_ " niteX ''■ arbo1 ' ■ l,,Ij " """" ; foliis ""■'i' 1 " ihu, coriaceis, lanceolatis, obtuse serrate, obtusis ; stipulis lan- 
ceolate; fon^tuManlj^pords, solitary's panukve, breve pedunculate ; pedunculis Ubracteolate ; sepalis 
mti's puUwntt'jKs, lanceolate. 
1. Anodopetalum biglandulosum (A. Cunn. MSS) .- Weinmannia biglandulosa, A. Cunn. in 
Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 301. {Ghrnn, 287.) 
Hab. Subalpine districts, often forming a dense and almost impenetrable scrub, Franklin River, Lake 
St. Clair, Hampshire Hills, etc., A. Cunningham, Gunn.~{Y\. Feb.) 
withTta TT1 f mt USUaUy fomS a StraggKng bush 8 " 10 feet hi S h > but ^° ^ains a height of 60-70 feet, 
nmic ot 4 teet m girth. Everywhere quite glabrous.— #«»« and branches very tough, covered with shining 
