122 LOEAisTiiACE.^ (Sprague). [Viscim. 



Section 1. Ploio>'ixia. — Leaves not scale-like. 

 Berry Avarted : 



Bracteal cup sessile ; berry sessile : 



Petals of the female flower deltoid-ovate or ovate, 

 shorter than the receptacle ; receptacle warted ; 

 style and stigma |-i liu. long (1) obovatTim. 



Petals of the female flower lanceolate - oblong, 

 equalling the receptacle ; receptacle not dis- 

 tinctly warted ; style and stigma | lin. long „. (2) pulchellum, 



Bracteal cup pednncled ; berry pec) icelled (3) suhserratum. 



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Berry smooth : 



Petals persistent in fruit .' •-• (4) nervosum. 



Petals deciduous : 



Berries pedicelled : 



Flowers dioecious ; female flowers solitary in their 



bracteal cups ; leaver obovate ... .»• (5) obscumni. 



Flowers monoecious ; bracteal cups 3-flowered ; 

 leaves nsuallv not obovate : 



Leaves very thick ; nerves not visible ... .,. (6) pancifiorum. 



Leaves thinner ; nerves more or less visible : 



Leaves §-1 1 in. long ./. (7) Eucleae. 



Leaves ^-§ in. long : 

 Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, 



rounded at the base (8) rotnndifolium. 



Leaves ovate - oblong, elliptic - oblong or 

 oblong -lanceolate, obtuse or acute at 

 the base ■-• (9) tricostatum. 



Berries sessile 



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4 ta * 



,. (11) Crassulae 



Inovifficiently known species of this section (10) Schseferi. 



Section 2. Aspidixia. — Leaves scale-like. 

 Stem bushy, much-branched : 



luternodes conspicuously flattened : 



Internodes ^-2| lin. long ; berry sessile (12) combreticola. 



Internodes |-1 in. long ; berry pedicelled in 

 F, anceps, not known in V. Junodii : 



Male flowers 3 together in each bracteal cup .,. (13) anceps. 

 Male flowers solitary (14) Junodii. 



Interuode:: not conspicuously flattened : 

 Berries smooth : 

 Berries sessile : 



Branchlets slender, |-f lin. in diam. in a dried 

 state ; scale-leaves very prominent; branches 

 nodose ... (15) capense. 



Branchlets stout, g~l lin, in diani, in a dried 

 state ; scale-leaves not very proniinent ; 

 branches not nodose (16) Tobustum. 



Berries pedicelled (17) continuum. 



Berries warted : 



Lobes of bracteal cup rounded (IS) verrucosum. 



Lobes of bracteal cup acute (19) rigidum. 



Stem minute, consisting of a single internode (20) minimum. 



1. V. obovatum (Harv, in Harv. & Send. Fl. Cap. ii. 579) ; 



