98 FLORA OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
Leaves narrow-cuneate, lobes longer subacute, upper side 
glabrous or nearly so, underside densely beset with 
long hairs ... me 7 best aff oe ... bifida 
Leaves linear-oblong, somewhat clustered, deeply chan- 
nelled above, bluntly notched at the end; upper side 
scabrous and sparsely hispid, underside with long 
subappressed hairs oss bee if. ves ... seabrida 
m1. Flowers sessile in loose cymes surrounded by 
small persistent imbricate brown bracts and 
1 or 2 floral leaves. 
Erect, viscid. Leaves narrow-linear, margins revolute, 
glabrous above; stipules linear-lanceolate; calyx-tube 
narrow-turbinate beset with spreading hairs... ... Waterhousei 
Iv. Flowers sessile or shortly stalked, in clusters 
or leafy spikes, never in cymes, surrounded 
by persistent imbricate brown bracts, and 
each flower by brown bracteoles. Leaves small, 
narrow, revolute. 
Flowers closely sessile in small terminal or lateral clusters; 
calyx silky-hairy rather large and broad, the Jobes 
short and spreading; free part of the ovary longer 
than the adnate portion. Leaves linear-terete ; 
bracteoles acuminate and ciliate, longer than the calyx hispidula 
Flowers in small terminal clusters; calyx about 4 in., 
silky-hairy, the lobes as long as the tube. Leaves 
clustered; bracteoles almost rhomboid, ciliate; 
branchlets somewhat spinescent, nearly glabrous... propinqua 
Flowers in short leafy spikes; calyx broadly campanulate, 
tomentose, the lobes shorter than the tube. Leaves 
narrow-elliptical to roundish-ovate, somewhat re- 
curved at the margin or almost flat; bracteoles obtuse 
shorter than the calyx ... iis i sis ... amara 
Flowers crowded into clusters; calyx glabrous, the lobes 
as long as the tube; leaves revolute; branchlets 
tomentose ... a ee on BE waz ... tomentosa 
ORDER OLACINEAE. 
Olax. 
Calyx enlarged after flowering and enclosing but free from 
the fruit, staminodia 2-cleft. Glabrous shrub. Leaves 
thick obovate cas A Me Sy Esk ... Benthamiana 
