182 BYTTNERIACE# (Harv.-) [Hermanmea. 
Shrubby ; leaves short-stalked, cuneate, 3—5-toothed ; . 
stip. ovato-lanceolate: fl. racemoso-paniculate ... (22) seabra. 
Shrubby ; leaves sessile, oblongo-lanceolate, sub- 
entire; stipules cordate; fl.racemose ... ...... (23) stipulacea. 
Shrubby ; leaves sub-sessile, imbricate, oval-oblong ; fo 
stipules and bracts subulate; fl. racemose ... ... (25) decipiens. 
Group 4. Glomerate. Much branched, rigid shrubs. Leaves on 
short petioles, oblong or ovate, entire or crenate. Pubescence copious, 
closely set, and wniformly spread, roughly stellate. Flowering branches 
leafy ; the peduncles very short, densely crowded in a terminal cluster. 
(Sp. 26-29.) 
* Leaves quite entire or nearly so :-— 
Leaves cordate-ovate ; A obliquely decurrent, del- 
toid . (26) cordifolia. 
Leaves oblong or oval ; st, subulate or lanceolate ; me 
calyx membranous and sub-inflated ... . (27) salvifolia. 
Leaves roundish-oval ; st. subulate ; AN thick, & 
ribbed, stellato-scabrous... ... (28) ehrysophylla. 
** Leaves sub-rotund, erentic oryns plated ask a undulate; 
stipules cordate, amplexicaul ... +... (29) glomerata. 
- Group 5. Flammex. Virgate rahe and under-shrubs. Leaves 
sessile or sub-sessile, cuneate, lanceolate or linear. Pubescence scanty, 
never copious, but variable in quantity, thinly stellate; the hairs short 
or appressed. Peduncles short, in a terminal raceme. (Sp. 39-37: ) 
* Either quite glabrous,or the branches minutely stellulate. 
Leaves coarsely toothed above the middle... ... ... (39) denudata. 
Leaves entire ; linear-lanceolate or spathulate : — ; 
Stipules much shorter than the leaves... ... (31) scoparia. a 
Stipules equalling the flat leaves; branches glabrous (32) linifolia, 
Stipules mt tegen Sa the channelled —— branches 
scabrous... iis .. (33) filifolia. 
** Branches and leaves more or bss stellulate or > Maple. 
Calyx semi-5-fid, the lobes deltoid ; leaves aaaead stel- 
lulate ... (34) flammea. + 
Calyx deeply 5 -parted, the lobes | narrow ; “Teaves 
ensely pubescent .., (35) flammula. 
Calyx oe s-toothed, teeth short, ‘taper- 
seeded, minently s-angled, labrous and ees 
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oes e~ y ‘angle eae .. «ss (37) angularis. 
ip 6 Vilatins: Canescent shrubs (rarely suffrutices) covered with 
and. close, velvetty or powdery pubescence. Leaves shortly 
sile, entire or denticulate. Stipules — vO mage 
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