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long teeth or bristles often tipped witli a minute white tuft, and continued 

 more or less into the tube down tlie lines of junction of the petals. 



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Oat of Australia there are several species in the islands of the Pacific, and two maritime 

 ones (one of them Australian) are widely diifused over the warmer seacoasts of the new " 

 well as the Old World j the remaining Australian species are all endemic. 



Sect. I. Sarcocarpaea. — Shruhs. Leaves usually large iviih woolly axils. FloiKen 

 in lateral or axillary dichotomoiis cymes. Exocarp visually very sticcident. 



Leaves obovate. Calyx-lobes oblong or linear 1. 5^. Kmnigiu 



Sect. II. Crossotoma.— ^//m^^. Flowers solitary on short slender axillary pedun- 

 cles. 



Eracteoles very small, free or none. Leaves entire. 



Leaves linear-cuneate obovate or ovate, crowded or clustered on 



short branchlets or nodes 2. S. spinescens. 



Leaves elliptical or ovate, scattered along the branches . . ! 3. S, GrcenerL 

 Eracteoles ovate or oblong, connected halfway up on the upper 

 side. Leaves sinuate or coarsely toothed. 



' Plant densely stellate-tomentose 4 5 tomevtosa. 



Plant minutely stellate-pubescent \ \ ^. S. atriplici 



cinct^ 



Sect. III. Pogonantliera.— 7Z>?-^j or under sJiruls. Peduncles or fedicels axxUan^ 

 ifowered or the lower ones hearing a dichotomoiis cyme of 3 or more flowers or rarely 

 Jlowers sessile on leafless nodes. Anthers in the first 5 snecies linved with a minute i^fl 



of hairs. 



Decumbent diffuse or prostrate leafy herbs. Leaves, at least the 

 lower ones, toothed. 



Wiugs of the corolla-lobes marted with numerous transverse 

 veins. Anthers penicillate. 



Eracteoles ovate or oblong, leafy %, S. striata. 



Eracteoles hnear, usually very small 1. S. phlebopeiah^ 



Wings of the corolla-lobes veinlcss. 



Peduncles mostly as loug as or longer than the leaves An- 

 thers penicillate. 

 Eracteoles ovate. Western species ....,/ . 8. 5. pilosa. 

 Eracteoles lineai-. Eastern species. - * . . .^ 



Corolla-wings broad 9. S. hispida. 



Corolla-wings very narrow or scarcely any ..♦*.. 10. S. apteraniha. 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves. Plant prostrate or creep- 

 ing. Anthers not penicillate .11. S. ITooieri. 



(The flowers are shortly pedicellate with large bracteoles in 35. S. platyphylla, but ^or^ 

 a termmal leafy spike as in other Jerocarp^as.) 



Erect or ascending undershrubs or rigid herbs. Leaves narrow, 



entire or reduced to scales. Anthers not penicillate. 

 atem-leaves very small and distant or none. 



Plant hirsute erect and much-branched 12 S. parmfolia. 



Eranches glabrous elongate, rush-like. Flowers sessile . . \Z, S. restiacea. 



Eranchea glabrous elongate divaricate. Flowers pedicellate . 14. S. depauperaia- 



Stems dwarf erect tortuose . \h, S. tortuosa. 



Leaves hnear, mostly 1 in. long or more. Plant glabrous. 



Peduncles elongated, mostly 3- or 5-flowered .... \& S. CunningU^'^ 



Peduncles none. Pedicels elongated, solitar.^ or clustered with 



mmute bracteoles at their base. Fruit beaked .... 17. 5. coUari^' 



Sect. V^-^JS^jozKr-^^^^-Rerhs undershruU or shruhs. Flowers sessile or m^ 

 so in the axils of floral leaves or bracts, all or the upper ones forming a terminal densf"" 

 tnterrtipted and leafy sptke^ tr j a 



