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open on the upper side ; anthers alternately long and erect, and short and 
versatile. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with several ovules or rarely only 2 or 8 ; 
style incurved, filiform ; stigma small, terminal. Pod sessile or stipitate, much 
flattened, ovate-oblong or linear, often oblique, completely dehiscent, the valves 
coriaceous, without thickened sutures. Seeds strophiolate. — Glabrous shrubs or 
rarely undershrubs, occasionally leafless, the branches angular or sulcate-striate. 
Leaves when present alternate, simple, entire. Stipules minute or spinescent. 
Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together, red or yellow. Bracts 2 or 3 at the 
base of the pedicel as in Bossier, a, but usually very minute ; bracteoles at or above 
the middle. 
The genus is limited to Australia. It has as much variety in habit as Bossicea, from which it 
differs in calyx, anthers, and pod, as well as in the striate-sulcate branches. — Benth. 
Stems leafy. Stipules minute or inconspicuous. Leaves narrow-linear. 
Calyx small, the lobes scarcely acute, shorter than the tube 1. T. Muelleri. 
Calyx-lobes acuminate, much longer than the tube 2. T. Hookeri. 
Stems leafless. Stipules minute, inconspicuous. Flowers small. Stems terete 3. T. egena. 
1. T. Muelleri (after Baron von Mueller), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 169. A 
glabrous shrub or undershrub, with a thick stock and ascending or erect virgate 
stems of 1 to 2ft., more or less sulcate-striate. Leaves few, the lower ones 
narrow-oblong, the upper ones linear, 1 to l|dn. long, or in some specimens 
attaining 3in., obtuse or with short recurved points, flat or concave, coriaceous, 
continuous or rarely when narrow showing a tendency to an articulation. 
Stipules minute. Pedicels solitary or 2 together, the bracteoles above the middle 
^ to 1 line long. Calyx 2 to 2^ lines long, the 4 lobes nearly equal and shorter 
than the tube, the uppermost broad, the lowest rather longer. Standard broad, 
reflexed, more than twice as long as the calyx ; keel broad and nearly as long as 
the standard ; wings much narrower and shorter. Ovary stipitate, with about 6 
ovules. Pod oblong, oblique, about fin. long and 5 lines broad, the stipes 
longer than the calyx ; valves convex, almost turgid. — Bossicea stcnophylla, F. v. 
M. Fragm. i. 9. 
Hab.: Wide Bay, Bidwill, Leichhardt ; Dawson River, F. v. M. 
2. T. Hookeri (after Sir J. D. Hooker), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 170. A tall 
slender shrub with erect branches, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves rather 
crowded, linear-terete or almost filiform with a short recurved point, 1 to 3in. 
long or even more, glabrous, usually articulate near the middle, showing that the 
lower portion is a petiole, with which the leaflet is occasionally continuous. 
Stipules minute. Pedicels filiform, often lin. long, with small bracteoles near 
the top. Calyx 5 to 6 lines long, the 4 lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, 
the uppermost with an inflexed point, the lateral ones shorter, the lowest 
considerably the longest. Petal-claws short ; standard broad, 6 to 7 lines long ; 
keel about as long ; wings much smaller. Ovary stipitate, with about 6 ovules. 
Pod f to above lin. long, about 4 lines broad, on a stipes longer than the calyx, 
oblique when young, but scarcely so when full grown ; valves coriaceous, slightly 
convex. — Ncmatophyllum Hookeri, F. v. M. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 20. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Broivn. 
3. T. egena (destitute of leaves), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 170. A tall 
glabrous, leafless shrub, with numerous erect terete sulcate branches, the nodes 
hearing only minute protuberances. Pedicels solitary or 2 together, rarely 1 line 
long, with small orbicular bracteoles close under the calyx. Calyx 1£ line long 
or rather more, with 5 nearly equal broad obtuse teeth, much shorter than the 
tube, the lowest rather the longest. Petals on rather long claws, scarcely twice 
as long as the calyx, the standard rather longer than the others. Ovary shortly 
