46 THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 



6. BAUERA. 



Pistil of 2 blended carpels with, distinct cavities, only immersed at tb.e very 

 base. Stamens very numerous, inserted on a flesby enlargement of tbe torus. 

 Genus is limited to a few Australian plants. 



B. BTJBIOIDES, Andr. A small sbrub, with stringy, much-elongated branches, 

 usually climbing over the undergrowth. Leaves trifoliate, opposite, very shortly 

 stalked ; the leaflets lanceolate, 2-6 lines long. Flowers solitary, on long stalks 

 in the upper axils. Sepals usually 6-7, free to the base, lanceolate. Petals 

 pink or white, the same number, obovate, 3-6 lines, sometimes double. 



Very common ; also Southern and Eastern Australia. El. spring and summer. 



A specimen, unfortunately barren, from Moore's Look-out, West Coast, is erect, 

 from 1-2 inches high, and leaflets 1 line long. 



Oeder ^XYlll.—CRASSULACE^. 



Pistil of few, nearly free, many-seeded carpels, the floral tube very short 

 round the base. Sepals and petals usually few, free, and equal. Stamens usually 

 twice as many, inserted with the petals into the top of the tube. Fruit of several 

 free follicles. 



A common order of both Hemispheres, distinct from Saxifragacece only in 

 habit. 



TILLJGA. 



Sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels normally 3 or 4, and all free. 

 A world-wide genus. 



Flowersunder 1 line, axillary. 



Flowers many together ... ... ... ... 1. T. verticillaris. 



Flowers solitary. 



Leaves under 1 line ... ... ... ... 2. T. purpurata. 



Leaves exceeding 2 lines ... ... ... ... 3.7". recurva. 



Flowers ] line, many in a panicle ... ... ... 4. J", macrantha. 



1. T. VERTICILLARIS, D. C. A Small succulent herb, of a dull pinkish or pale 

 yellow-green colour, erect, and seldom exceeding 4 inches. Leaves in small 

 clusters, fleshy, thick, linear, 1-2 lines long. Flowers in dense axillary clusters, 

 each on a very short stalk. Sepals narrow, about \ line long, usually 4. Petals 

 still smaller, narrow. Carpels not exceeding the calyx, very blunt. 



Very common in dry places. Distributed throughout Australia. It also occurs 

 in New Zealand and South America. Fl. all the year. 



2. T. PUBPUBATA, Hook. A very slender decumbent annual, of f-l inch. 

 Leaves linear, connate at the base, 1-lf or rarely 2 lines long. Flowers minute, 

 slender, solitary, each on a stalk somewhat longer than the leaves, but occa- 

 sionally shorter. Petals about \ line long. Sepals shorter. Carpels blunt, not 

 exceeding the sepals. 



Mt. Direction, Great Lake, Formosa, South Esk River. It occurs also in New 

 South Wales Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia, and extends 

 also to New Zealand. Fl. Sept. -Nov. 



3. T. MACRANTHA, Hook. An erect, branched annual, 2-3 inches high. Leaves 

 linear, 1-3 lines long, connate at the base. Flowers larger than in the other 

 species, numerous, and forming a broad panicle. Sepals lanceolate, l|line long. 

 Petals about the same length. Fruiting-carpels nearly as long as the sepals, 

 rounded, but bearing the permanent base of the style. 



Very common in places. George Town, Brighton, near Hobart. It occurs 

 also in Victoria and South Australia. Fl. Sept.-Nov. 



