220 CXIV. SANTALACER. [.Leptomeria. 
The genus is foie to Australia. 
Sect. 1. Keromeria.—Bracts subtending the flowers falling off long before the 
flower expands. 
* Western species. 
Branches “omar Spikes dense, few-flowered, the rhachis 
about 1 Fruit dry. Peri anth-lobes whitish 
Branches Hea, with tained Darai loni: Spikes loose, ‘the 
aie his 2 to 6 lines. Fruitdry. Perianth-lobes whitish 2 
Branches slender, terete. Spikes dense, Ae rhachis 1 to 2 lines. : 
Fruit succulent. ` Perianth brown yellow 3. L. pauciflora. 
— angular. Spikes dense, ihe flowers closely s sessile 
notched or excavated rhachis. Fruit t dry 4 
pt 
L. spinosa. 
. L. Preissiana. 
. L. scrobiculata. 
** Eastern species. 
Hacainon loose, often 4 to 3 in. img: Perianth-lobes fulvous 
hen dry. 
Disk not lobed . 5. L. acida. 
Hioc oose, $ es in. long. Periunth-lobes white when : B 
nU. Di sk lobe 6. L. Billardieri. 
Racemes 3 to 4 nes long, rather dense. Perianth-lobes dark 
en Bo Disk slightly lobed. Branches rigid, often 
ipia 7. L. aphylla. 
"o tut pn Eb to dense almost sessile ‘clusters of fow flowers 8. L.g rp 
dt 2. Oxymeria.— Bracts vti under the flowers. 
Bracts very spreading and mostly recurved 
Benets abe eid or Miuedy ehe e not recurved. 
es pers + Cunningham 
Pract: fone, miae at the base. Bem-lónves ‘deciduous 11. L empetriforms. 
Species insufficiently known.  Stem-leaves persistent, 14 to 3 lines long ; flowers 
solidi à in the upper axils. 
. L. squarrulosa. 
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Leaves and bracts e ah not rigid . 12. L. axillaris. 
Leaves semiterete, at ] pu pungent. Bracts smaller, elip 
tical-lanceolate . 25 13. 
Leaves and bracts obovate or obovate-oblong . Ow dw 4 c ME A Mositd: 
Sect. 1. XERowERIA, Endl.—Bracts subtending the individual 
flowers falling off long before the flowers expand, and rarely to be seen 
except in the nascent Spike. 
. L. spinosa, 4 
shru ea s at the time of flow wering, ‘the minute "oae cible E. 
scale- like es soon falling o off mae the young shoots, the @ fei 
branches terete, slightly striate with raised lines, the shorter ones 9 
