GENERA AND SPECIES. 
Fruiting calyx closed only near the base, each seg- 
ment with a large inflated dorsal appendage ; 
leaves elliptical or oblong-lanceolate 
Fruiting calyx closed to near the middle, without 
appendages; leaves hastate-ovate, entire, or 
somewhat toothed; fruit-calyx 14 to 3 lines 
diameter 
Fruit-calyx 4 to 5 lines diameter, with a narrow 
flat margin 
Male flowers in axillary clusters with a few females in 
the upper axils; female flowers clustered in the 
lower axils without males. Herbs. 
Fruiting calyx open to the base. 
Fruiting calyx entire, scaly tomentose ; leaves 
ovate or rhomboid, coarsely sinuate-toothed 
Fruiting calyx with thick rhomboid segments, 
their margins laciniated, densely scaly to- 
mentose ... ~ 
Fruiting calyx on long stalks; the segments 
renate, entire or distantly denticulated, with 
a small prominent renate appendage at their 
base. Somewhat succulent, beset with 
watery papillae... 
Fruiting calyx closed only near the base, raised on 
a short stalk, segments large denticulated; leaves 
orbicular or broadly rhomboid on long stalks 
Fruiting calyx closed to near the middle. 
Fruit-calyx succulent and red towards the 
base. Procumbent; leaves narrow, often 
toothed ... 
Fruit-calyx rhomboidal, turgid; an erect herb 
with rather large obovate or rhomboidal 
leaves, coarsely and irregularly sinuate- 
toothed or lobed 
Fruit-calyx rhomboidal under 1 line broad. 
Dwarf, diffuse or procumbent ; scaly tomen- 
tose; leaves ovate or lanceolate, very shortly 
stalked 
Fruiting calyx closed to near the summit, not at 
all compressed, the orifice small and closed by 
small erect appressed valves. 
Fruit-calyx narrow cylindrical; calyx-lobes 
minute, entire ... 
Calyx-lobes with two pointed excrescences 
and a dorsal appendage between them 
vesicarium 
rhagodioides 
incrassatum 
velutinellum 
jissivaluve 
Quinii 
angulatum 
semibaccatum 
Muelleri 
prostratum 
leptocarpum 
limbatum 
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