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Stamens 10. XI. EUFLAVAE. 
Stamens more than 10. 
Flowers produced in few-flowered, mostly 5-7-flowered 
corymbs: pedicels and hypanthium pubescent or gla- 
brous (densely white-tomentose in no. 78): leaf-blades 
serrate, dentate or crenate, pubescent or glabrous: 
branches os or ascending or occasionally droop- 
ing as in the VISENDAE. 
Leaf-blades sharply serrate and pointed. XII. IGNAVAE. 
Leaf-blades serrate or coarsely and irregularly dentate. XIII. SORORIAE,. 
Leaf-blades crenate. XIV. SEGNES. 
Leaf-blades finely dentate or glandular-dentate, usually 
with several tooth-like lobes. XV. VISENDAE. 
Flowers produced in few-flowered, mostly 3-5-flowered 
corymbs: pedicels and hypanthium tomentose or 
Pe sereni (glabrous or nearly so in the ATTRITAE): 
eaf-blades dentate, erenate or entire, or occasionally 
serrate as in the SENTAE, either tomentose, pubescent 
or glabrous : branches mostly drooping. 
Mature fruit globose, subglobose or oval. 
Fruit averaging 1 em. in diameter or more. 
Leaf-borders glandular, entire, dentate or crenate. 
often with blunt or sharp tooth-like lobes. 
Inflorescence tomentose or pubescent. 
Mature leaves densely tomentose beneath. XVI. MICHAUXIANAE. 
Mature leaves less tomentose, sometimes 
merely pubescent or glabrous. 
Leaf-blades entire or nearly so. XVII. INTEGRAE. 
Leaf-blades toothed, often lobed. XVIII. DENTATAE. 
Inflorescence glabrousor with a few weak hairs. XIX. ATTRITAE. 
Leaf-borders serrate or serrate-dentate and incisely 
lobed. XX. SENTAE. 
Fruit averaging less than 1 em. in diameter. XXI. ANISOPHYLLAE. 
Mature fruit pyriform. 
Fruits 1.5-2 em. long, over 1 cm. thick. XXII. COLONICAE. 
Fruits smaller. XXIII. RECURVAE. 
Flowers solitary, 2 or 3 together (usually more in no. 132): 
prom and hypanthium glabrous or pubescent: 
eaves small; blades cuneate or spatulate, or sometimes 
with abruptly contracted bases: spines usually numer- 
> ous : sepals narrow. XXIV. LEPIDAE. 
i. Corymbs with a single flower each, or 2 or 3 flowers, or occa- 
sionally more: sepals long and usually conspicuously in- 
cised : fruit globose or pyriform, at maturity red, yellow or 
greenish, the flesh firm: leaves relatively small; blades 
spatulate, elliptic or ovate: spines usually numerous, long 
_ , and slender. XXV. UNIFLORAE. 
j. Corymbs several-many-flowered, tomentose or pubescent: 
Stamens 10-20: fruit pubescent, at maturity red, orange or 
yellowish: leaf-blades tomentose or pubescent at least 
beneath and on the petioles. 
Margins of the petioles without glands: corymbs compound, 
many-flowered. XXVI. MOLLES. 
Margins of the petioles glandular or bearing stalked glands. 
Sepals about 5 mm. long. XXVII. BILTMOREANAE. 
Sepals 7-10 mm. long. 
Corymbs 2-5-flowered. XXVIII. TRIFLORAE. 
Corymbs many-flowered. XXIX. HARBISONIANAE. 
k. Corymbs 5-12-flowered, glabrous : stamens 5-20: fruit ntn 
at maturity red, dull greenish red or scarlet, usually pruin- 
ose, the flesh firm or succulent; leaves Lila: when fully 
grown (slightly scabrous or roughened in no. 158): blades 
serrate and incised, those of leaves of the shoots truncate 
or cordate at the base. 
Flesh of the mature fruit firm. XXX. PRUINOSAE. 
Flesh of the mature fruit succulent. ` XXXI. TENUIFOLIAE. 
l Corymbs several-many-flowered, pubescent or glabrous: sta- 
mens 7-20: fruit red, green and red or yellow, the flesh firm 
orsucculent: leaf-blades mostly shining, obovate, spatulate, 
oval or elliptie, glabrous or nearly so when fully wn: 
branches frequently armed with numerous large spines, or 
occasionally unarmed. 
Corymbs more or less pubescent, at least during anthesis. XXXII. BERBERIFOLIAE. 
Corymbs glabrous. XXXIII. CRUS-GALLI. 
I. TOMENTOSAE. 
"Corymbs densely pubescent. i 
"a dfe p oval or pyriform. 5 a Fang i 
ght red, globose or subglobose. . €. Chapmanii. 
"Corymbs glabrous ot ginbrate, e 3. C. neofluvialis. 
II. CORDATAE. 
Leaf-blades broadly ovate, cordate, truncate or abruptly contracted at the base. 4. C. cordata. 
Iuflorescence glabrous. ; 
Inflorescence villose-pubescent. 5. C. apiifolia. 
Leaf-blades spatulate or oblanceolate, narrowed or cüneate at the base. 6. C. spathulata. 
