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Stems prostrate or decumbent, always 

 glabrous ; leaves coriaceous or some- 

 what fleshy, glabrous ou both sides ... ( 4 ) livida. 



Involucres solitary and terminal or in the 

 forks or at the nodes of the branches, 1 to 

 each pair of leaves, often crowded along 

 very short axillary branchlets with reduced 

 leaves, rarely cymose : 



Stems glabrous all round : 



Stems and branches prostrate or rarely 

 erect ; leaves 1-5 Uu. long ; involucres 

 minutCj 1 to each pair of leaves of the 

 stems or of very short axillary leafy 

 branchlets : 

 Annual (2) inseiiuilatera. 



Perennial ... ♦ (2) inaequilatera, 



var. jS, 



Stems and branches erect or ascending ; 



involucres solitary in the forks of the 



branches or terminal or sonietimes 



cymose : 



Annual, 2-15 in. high ; leaves 3-9 lin. 



(or when better developed up to 



2^ in.) long (14) glaucella. 



Perennial, 9-18 in. high; leaves 1^-2J 



lin. long (8) Pfeilii 



Stems puberuloua on the upper side, at least 

 along a middle line, glabrous beneath, 

 always prostrate; leaves 1A-3J lin. long ( 1 ) prostrata. 



Stems adpressed -pubescent or subtomentose 

 all roundj erect, 4-3 in. hii?h ; leaves 

 3-7 lin. long ^ ...- ... (3) Schlechteri. 



J J Leaf-blade 5-12 times as long as broad, linear, • 



linear-lanceolate or oblong -lin ear, glabrous on 



both sides ; erect plants ; involucres solitary 



in the forks of the branches or terminal : 



Glands of the involucre with small petal-like 



white appendages (7) neopoly- 



cnemoides. 



Glands of the involucre without petal - like 



appendages (14) glaucella. 



tfLeaves on the stem below the umbellate inflorescence 



all alternate and often different in form and 

 colour from the opposite flowering leaves or 

 bracts ; umbel always terminal, but sometimes 

 with 1 or more ray -like branches arising below 

 it from the axils of the upper leaves : 

 Stem-leaves distinctly but finely toothed : 



Stem-leaves sessile, at least half as broad at the 

 base as elsewhere, lanceolateor oblanceolate, 



pilose (IS) pubescens. 



Stem-leaves tapering into a petiole or a very 



narrow basejCnneatelyobovate, glabrous ,.. (10) Helioscopia. 



Stem-leaves entire or "minutely scabrous on the 

 margin or at the apex, but not distinctly 

 toothed : 

 Leaves (including the petiole when present) 

 1^4 in. long, glabrous: 

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