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Thesinm.] hantalace.e (Ilill). I;i9- 



Branches spreading ; perianth with conspicuous 

 external glands : 

 Leaves imbricate ; bracts and bracteoles longer 



than flowers ; inflorescences inconspicuous (32) cupressoides. 



Leaves lax ; bracts and bracteoles etjual to or 

 shorter than flowers ; inflorescences con- 

 spicuous (33) ericaefoUum. 



Branches very sparingly leafy or nearly leafless ; 



leaves small and bract -like ; bract-margiuri finely 



serrulate : 



Stigma subsessile ; bracts equal to or longer than 



flowers : 



External glands conspicuous ; bracts acutely 



acuminate (34) nigromonta- 



num. 

 External glands not seen ; bract.s acute : 



Perianth-segments glabrous ; lower leaves 



1-2 lin. long (35) leptocaule. 



Perianth-segments with papillose margins ; 



lower leaves up to 6 lin. long ... ... (36) commutatum. 



Style ^ lin. or more long ; bracts about half the 

 length of flowers : 

 Leaves few, scale-like^ ovate-triangular, f lin. 



long (37) nudicaule. 



Leaves well-developed, oblong-lanceolate, 3 lin. 



long, flat; obtuse or subacute (3S) schumannia- 



num,. 



****Flowers arranged in compact corymbose or umbellate 



inflorescences ; leaves few^, scattered : 



Plants slender, inish-like ; leaves very smalij subulate, 



rarely a few narrowly linear basal leaves ; 



perianth J-J lin. long, margins of segments 



minutely papillose or subglabrrnis ; corymbs 



few-flowered : 

 Leaves almost absent ; branchlets below^ corymbs 



leafless (39) juncifolium. 



Leaves subulate, fairly numerous on branchlets 



below corymbs (iO) virgatum. 



Plants stout, woody ; leaves somewhat fleshy, linear- 

 lanceolate, conspicuous, towards base up to 2^ 

 in. long ; perianth f-lj lin. long, margins ot 

 segments more or less conspicuously papillose ; 

 corymbs many-flowered : 

 Perianth If lin. long, fringe of papillae conspicu- 

 ous ; anthers g lin. long ; style J lin. long ... (11) OCCidentale. 



Perianth J-li lin. long, papilliB short ; anthers 



J lin. long ; style i lin. long ... (42) strictum. 



Sub-section 2. Fimbuiata.— Perianth-segments with a marginal fringe of long 

 papillae, or with two lateral lacinulie, but no apical beard ; anthers with attach- 

 ment hairs ; plants rigid, woody, spinescent. 



Margins of perianth-segments provided with lacinulse : 



Stems rigid, spinesceut, puberulous (43) lacinulatum. 



Stems flexuous, herbaceous, glabrous (44) pleuroloma. 



Margins of perianth-segments fimbriate with fringe of 

 long papilla) : 

 Branchlets ascending, crowded, covered with imbri- 

 cate adpressed leaves (4-'0 horridum. 



