48 FLORA OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
Fruit-calyx succulent and green. A prostrate 
succulent shore-plant, with small elliptical 
or rhomboid denticulated leaves covered 
with watery papillae ... sald 5 ... erystallinum 
Fruiting calyx inflated of a spongy Palas 
minutely bilobed at the summit. 
Fruit-calyx HSL TRBURG and acute at the 
margin... ... halimoides 
Fruit-calyx Woanticl a tiie auitstlitee ... holocarpum 
Dysphania. 
Calyx consisting of 3 segments, Erect herbs of a few 
inches, the inflorescence in dense terminal spikes. 
Leaves ovate, flat ; adie REARS obovate ; fruit 
obovate sk aa shy ... plantaginella 
Leaves ovate-oblong, wavy on the margin, on slen- 
der stalks; calyx-segments united at the base ; 
fruit broadly ovate ... ene . simulans 
Calyx consisting of a single sepal. Lanes very en 
oval to elliptical; flowers in axillary clusters. 
Small prostrate or ascending herb ... oe ... litoralis 
Rhagodia. 
1. Panicle usually much branched. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, greenish. A straggling or 
erect shrub up to 6 ft.; fruit usually red . Billardieri 
Leaves oval, mealy white on both sides. Tall, a parabolica 
11. Inflorescence a spike or simple boc 
Leaves thick and fleshy, alternate, branchlets not 
thorny. 
Leaves mostly hastate, broadly eae or deltoid; 
fruit-calyx exceeding the fruit. A divaricately 
branched shrub covered with a dense white 
tomentum... ... Gaudichaudiana 
Leaves linear- ey  duoala ssdbooatl chant sin. 
long ; fruit- suka not sinless the fruit. A 
diffuse shrub .. be ... crassifolia 
Leaves green, or scarcely hones y> a a. Tene ; 
inflorescence usually more slender and elongated Preissii 
Leaves fiat, thin, mostly scattered, small and broad, 
somewhat mealy-white; branchlets often’ ending 
in thorns. A divaricately branched rigid shrub... spinescens 
Leaves flat, thin, mostly opposite, lanceolate or broad, 
acute; fruit red or yellow. A slender climbing or 
somewhat prostrate and diffuse herb ‘és ... nutans 
