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Annual or perennial herbs, commonly more or less viscid. Flowers perfect, 
usually in panicled cymes, rarely solitary; calyx tubular, usually more or less 
inflated, the lobes short, spreading or srect. Petals 5, narrowed to a long 
Claw, the blade bearing usually 2 or 4 erect appendages at its base, abruptly 
broadened at the base ov the blade, frequently with lateral teeth above the 
shoulder, the apex entire or notched, sometimes cleft. Stamens 10. Ovary 
l-chambered, or partially S-chambered at the base. Styles 3-4. Capsule 
enclosed by the calyx, opening by short recurving valves, twice the number 
of the st yles. Seeds kidney-shaped, tuberculate. 
OD Annuealse 
& Glabrous, each internode with a median black sticky band 
6 1 cm, wide  S. antirrhina 
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2, Viscid-pubescent throughout 2 S, noctiflora 
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- Porennialse 
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x Calvx globular-inflated; leaves ovate-lanceolate, glaucous; 
introduced adventive 
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3 Se latifolia 
r, Celvx sometimes distended, especially in fruit, but not bladdery; 
6 natives 
Densely tufted cusnion-like plants 3-8 cm. tall, 
8 flowers solitary on short peduncles 
4 rect plants 20-40 cm. tall; flowers commonly 
S$ paniculate, sometimes solitary 
Stems more or less decumbent, plants very leafy 
fo throughout; ##e flowers in the upper axils 5° S. lienziesii 
(o Stems erect, the upper leaves much reduced, 
scale-like in the inflorescencey flowers 
/0 < in terminal cymes or sometimes solitary 
8 Corolla 12-18 mn. long; flowers 1-9) eee 
/e Inflorescence glandular; petals notched 
7s rarely less than £e5-5 mm. some 
fa at least bearing a small tooth on 
\ either margin above the shoulder 
b, Se Lyallii 
/o Inflorescence not glandular; petals 
{ notched for 1-2 mm, never toothed, 
/4\ the shoulders rather acute 
- Corolla 25 mne lone; flowers numerous . de ocouleri 
