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 xxxviii Of these T. viminea 184 has long smooth slender branches, slightly covered with smooth ovate whorled leaves, and bright purple flowers drooping from the end of the branches; T. rubriseta 185 is a bush loaded with purple or rose-coloured flowers, and often clothed with bright red hairs; T. nuda 186 is a naked plant, looking like a rush when out of flower, but producing a great quantity of most brilliant crimson blossoms; T. hirsuta 187 and pilifera 188 are also pretty shrubs, but not to be compared with the others for gay appearance. Most of them would be great acquisitions to our gardens.

Four or five species of are met with, one of which seems undistinguishable from the blue-flowered twining C. volubilis of the south coast; and another is the beautiful C. conferta. Lab., an herbaceous plant, or under-shrub, clothed with narrow rigid leaves, and loaded with erect racemes of violet flowers, succeeded by the curious spathulate emarginate fruit of the genus.

Of only two genera have been remarked in a wild state; the one Lepidium, the other Stenopetalum; the latter consists of three or four species, with long spirally twisted petals, but they are none of them of any Horticultural interest.

A few are met with, but they are species of no beauty; any more than the singular genus Tripterococcus, with its triple-winged sharp-pointed fruit, which seems peculiar to this locality.

There is a suffruticose plant, with narrow

 (184) viminea; glabra v. basi caulis subpilosa, foliis ovato-oblongis rotundisve verticillatis sparsisque internodiis multò brevioribus, floribus pentameris.  (185) Tetratheca rubriseta; ramis pubescentibus nunc pilis rubris hispidis, foliis lineari-oblongis revolutis supra scabris subtùs tomentosis, pedunculis axillaribus corymbosis aculeatis setosis glaberrimisve, antheris scabris longè rostratis, floribus pentameris.  (186) Tetratheca nuda; glaberrima, ramis junceis apice abortientibus, foliis linearibus deciduis plurimis deficientibus, pedunculis sparsis glabriusculis corollæ longitudine, petalis obovatis, floribus pentameris.  (187) Tetratheca hirsuta; ramis tomentosis nunc setosis, foliis oblongis sparsis oppositisve subtùs tomentosis suprà hispidis, pedunculis setosis scabrisve, floribus pentameris.—Near T. rubriseta; flowers pink.  (188) Tetratheca pilifera; ramis pubescentibus setosis, foliis verticillatis ovatis grossè dentatis utrinque glabris: dentibus setigeris pedunculis glabris foliis paulò longioribus, floribus pentameris.—Flowers dark purple.