534 MALACEAE 
III. BREVISPINAE. 
A single species in our range. 
IV. AESTIVALES. 
Shoots, petioles and lower surfaces of the leaves rufous tomentose. 
Shoots, petioles and leaves glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaf-blades with abruptly contracted bases. 
Leaf-blades with cuneate or narrowed bases. 
V. VIRIDES. 
Ripe fruit red, or at least with ruddy cheeks. 
eaf-blades ovate-lanceolate, elliptic or obovate, either narrowed or con- 
tracted at the base. 
Leaf-blades coarsely and irregularly serrate, often with blunt or acute 
shallow lobes. 
Leaf-blades ample, 2-4 em. wide. 
Leaf-blades (exclusive of those on the shoots) 1-2 em. wide : twigs very 
spiny. 
fest bindes all sharply serrate and incisely lobed. 
Inflorescence pilose-pubescent: terminal leaves of the shoots with 
broadly ovate blades, broad, rounded or truncate at the base. 
Inflorescence glabrous : terminal leaves of the shoots with broadly ovate 
blades, mostly broad, rounded at the base. 
Leaf-blades all broadly ovate or oval, rounded and very abruptly contracted 
at the base: fruit yellowish green flushed with red, 7-9 mm. in diameter. 
Ripe fruit bright canary yellow. 
VI. SILVICOLAE. 
Inflorescence and young shoots glabrous. 
Inflorescence and young shoots sparsely pubescent. 
VII. PUNCTATAE. 
Fruit large, at maturity more than 1 em. thick. 
Anthers pink : fruit 18-25 mm. wide. 
Anthers yellow or almost white: fruit 11-15 mm. wide 
Petioles and leaf-bases less glandular or nearly so. 
Petioles and leaf-bases conspicuously glandular. 
Fruit not exceeding 1 cm. in diameter. 
Inflorescence pubescent. 
aoe ee or light yellow: leaf-blades sharply serrate and very incisely 
obed. 
Anthers pink or purple: leaf-blades serrate and shallowly incised. 
Inflorescence glabrous or with a few weak hairs. 
Leaf-borders sharply serrate and shallowly incised. 
Leaf-borders coarsely serrate and deeply incised. 
VIII. BOYNTONIANAE. 
Fruit globose or nearly so. 
Anthers yellow : sepals without stalked glands. 
Anthers purplish : sepals with stalked glands. 
Large shrub or small tree: nutlets 7.5-9 mm. long. 
Low shrub: nutlets smaller. 
Fruit pyriform. 
Fruit yellow or greenish yellow. 
Fruit red. 
IX. SARGENTIANAE. 
Mature fruit yellow, orange-yellow or green sometimes cheeked with red. 
BM fruit often 1 em. in diameter or more. 
eaf-blades acuminate : e e long and broad. 
Leaf-blades acute: sepals s narrow. 
Fruit subglobose or oval. 
Fruit globose. 
pe fruit smaller. 
Anthers pale purple: leaf-blades elongated. 
Anthers dark purple: leaf-blades not conspicuously elongated. 
Mature fruit red or ruddy. 
Ripe fruit oval or pyriform. 
Fruit 1 em. thick or more. 
Fruit smaller. 
Ripe fruit globose or nearly so. 
Leaf-blades incised or incisely lobed. 
Corolla 20-25 mm. wide: anthers yellow: leaf-blades acuminate. 
Corolla smaller: anthers purplish. 
Fruit 10-13 mm. in diameter. 
Fruit depressed ; leaf-blades shallowly incised. 
Fruit not depressed. 
Leaf-blades Mos hd incised. 
Leaf-blades shallowly incised. 
Fruit smaller. 
Anthers pale purple: fruiting pedicels 1-2 cm. long. 
Anthers dark purple: fruiting pedicels very short. 
Leaf-blades slightly if at all incised. 
ort an 
ts 
C. brachyacantha. 
. C. aestivalis. 
. C. maleoides. 
. C. luculenta. 
. €. viridis. 
. C. paludosa. 
. C. subviridis. 
. C. interior. 
. C. vulsa. 
. C. Brazoria. 
. C. silvicola. 
. €. aemula. 
. C. punctata. 
. C. collina. 
. C. rigens. 
22. C. amnicola. 
. C. ingens. 
. C. penita. 
. C. Margaretta. 
j. C. Boyntonii. 
. €. Buckleyi. 
C. communis. 
C. straminea. 
C. rubella. 
. C. Sargentii. 
C. pallens. 
C. austrína. 
. C. gilva. 
C. contrita. 
(Ad venusta. 
C. inanis. 
C. eximia. 
. C. tecta. 
. C. ancisa. 
. C. alma. 
. C. pinetorum- 
os Pracilenta. 
. C. mendosa. 
