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and one or two other South Australian species, belongs to a different section of the genus from the following, having, 
besides the characters given above, broad segments of the perianth, slender filaments, and membranous capsules.— 
Pirate CXXXII. 4. Fig. 1, flower; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 4, the same, cut transversely ; 5, capsule; 6, transverse 
section of ditto; 7, seed; 8, the same, cut longitudinally :—all magnified. 
§ 2. Flowers racemose. Ovary with two ovules in each cell. Capsule broadly globose, coriaceous, three-lobed ; lobes 
with two or three globose, opaque seeds, with a large umbilicus. 
2. Ceesia parviflora (Br. Prodr. 277); radicibus e fibris cylindricis elongatis fasciculatis, foliis 
anguste lanceolatis v. filiformibus, racemis strictis gracilibus basi divisis, floribus parvis binis v. aggregatis 
erectis, perianthii foliolis lineari-oblongis, filamentis planis, capsula brevi 3-loba, lobis 1-2-spermis, seminibus 
globosis, umbilico lato, testa atra opaca granulata.—Kunth, En. iv. 609. (Gunn, 1383.) 
Has. Sandy soil: in the northern coasts of the Colony, at Georgetown, Launceston, etc.— 
(Fl. Dec., Jan.) 
Disrris. New South Wales (Brown), South-west Australia ? 
I am uncertain whether this or the following is the C. parviflora, Br., but incline to refer this to it, from the 
roots being truly fibrous. I have not, however, seen any Australian specimens of the present species, except, 
indeed, it be the same as a Swan River one, which it closely resembles. Of this Tasmanian C. parviflora 1 have 
two varieties, one smaller, with filiform leaves, from sand-hills at Georgetown, the other from Penquite, with rather 
broader leaves. —Roots of fascicled, cylindrical, rather fleshy fibres. Leaves 3-7 inches long, very narrow. Racemes 
strict, erect, slender, branched at the base, many-flowered. Flowers small, + inch long, erect, pedicelled, the 
pedicels clustered by two or more in the axil of each small membranous bract. Pedicels about as long as the 
flowers. Perianth with linear-oblong lobes. 
9. Czesia vittata (Br. Prodr. 277) ; radice e fibris crassis tuberosis fusiformibus, foliis lanceolato- 
linearibus gramineis planis, racemis strietis basi divisis v. paniculatim ramosis, floribus aggregatis erectis 
nutantibusque, perianthii foliolis linearibus, filamentis basi et apice angustatis, capsula subglobosa 3-loba, 
lobis 1-2-spermis, seminibus globosis, hilo late strophiolato, testa atra opaca minutissime granulata.— 
Kunth. En. iv. 608. (Gunn, 99.) 
Has. Common in grassy places, and especially in the northern parts of the Island: Launceston, 
Laurence, Gunn.—(Fl. Oct., Dec.) 
Distris. New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. 
A very pretty plant, not easily distinguishable by descriptions from C. parviflora, but much larger in all its 
parts, with longer, broader leaves, a more branched, often spreading panicle of racemose flowers nearly à inch 
long, and the seeds not so strongly granulated. 
Gen. V. THYSANOTUS, Br. 
Flores cerulei, umbellati v. sparsi, pedicellis medio articulatis. Perianthium 6-partitum, eguale, 
persistens ; foliolis exterioribus angustioribus, interioribus utringue coloratis margine fimbriatis v. nudis. 
Stamina 6; filamentis brevibus, glabris; antheris apice productis. Ovarium 3-loculare ; stylo elongato, 
gracili; stigmate simplici; ovulis 2. Capsula perianthio involuta, membranacea, 3-locularis, loculicide 
3-valvis. Semina loculis 2, altero pendulo, altero erecto; testa atra, crustacea; umbilico strophiolato.— 
Herbe ; radicibus tuberosis fibrosisve ; caule stricto v. volubili ; foliis linearibus v. 0; floribus solitariis 
paniculatis umbellatisve. 
The largest Australian genus of the Order, containing upwards of thirty species, found in both temperate 
and tropical regions, but confined to Australia and Tasmania, with the exception, perhaps, of a Philippine Island 
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