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192 as the cells; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous. Fruit indehiscent, globose or obconic, often horned or tuberculate; endocarp hard or almost bony; epicarp coriaceous or fleshy.

1. T. expansa, ''Murr. in Comm. Gotting.'' vi. (1783) 13.—A more or less succulent minutely papillose herb. Stems 1–2 ft. high, decumbent or suberect, glabrous or sparingly puberulous. Leaves 1–4 in. long, ovate-rhomboid or triangular, obtuse or subacute, suddenly narrowed into the petiole, quite entire or very obscurely sinuate. Flowers small, yellowish, solitary or rarely 2 together, sessile or on very short peduncles. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate; lobes about as long as the tube, broad, obtuse. Stamens 12–20, irregularly inserted. Ovary 3–8-celled; styles the same number. Fruit about ⅓ in. long, hard and dry, almost turbinate, angular, usually furnished at the summit with 2–4 prominent teeth or horns.—''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 320; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 523; Raoul, Choix, 48; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 77; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 84; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 325; Kirk, Students' Fl. 185. T. halimifolia, ''Forst. Prodr.'' n. 223.

2. T. trigyna, ''Banks and Sol. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 77.—Stems 1–8 ft. long, branched, trailing or almost climbing, terete, woody at the base. Leaves ¾–2 in. long, broadly ovaterhomboid or rounded-ovate, obtuse, abruptly narrowed into the petiole, fleshy, usually covered with transparent papillæ. Flowers small, yellowish, solitary or rarely 2 together; peduncles about as long as the flower. Ovary 2- rarely 3-celled; styles the same number as the cells. Fruit ¼ in. diam., subglobose, succulent, bright-red, obscurely lobed or quite even, not horned. Seeds 1–3.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 84; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 185. T. implexicoma var. chathamica, ''F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is.'' 12.