Victorian Plants. 43 



207. Embryo incompletely annular. 



Herbs or oftener shrubs ; leaves small, almost cylindrical. 

 Figure 37. Kochia. 872 



Embryo coiled. 



Herbs or half-shrubs; leaves almost cylindrical. 



Salsola. 883 



208. Fruit-bearing calyx unchanged and hardly succulent. 



Herbs or half -shrubs ; leaves almost cylindrical ; embryo 

 coiled. Suaeda. 884 



Fruit-bearing calyx enlarged and very succulent ... 209 



209. Fruit-bearing calyx depressed-globular. 



Half -shrub ; leaves small, almost cylindrical ; embryo in- 

 completely annular. Enchylaena. 885 



Fruit-bearing calyx erect, truncate-ellipsoid. 



Half -shrub ; leaves small, almost cylindrical ; embryo in- 

 completely annular. Threlkeldia. 886 



FRANKLENIACEAE. 



210. Calyx tubular. 



Herbs or shrubs ; petals much narrowed towards the base ; 



fruit one-celled, dehiscent, many-seeded. Prankenia. 887 



211. Calyx almost funnel-shaped. 



Herbs or half -shrubs ; leaves often near the root, generally 

 rigid ; spikes mostly paniculated ; upper portion of calyx 

 often transparent ; styles disjointed, glabrous ; fruit en- 

 closed, one-seeded. Figure 30. Statice. 888 



LEGUITCIN03AE. 



212. Petals equal. 



Shrubs or trees ; leaves doubly pinnate or often reduced to 

 dilated leafstalks ; petals all disconnected or all connate, 

 always contiguous before expansion ; stamens often 

 numerous; flowers usually minute and equally yellow, 

 crowded into headlets or spikes. . Figures 50 and 51. 



Acacia. 889 



Petals unequal ...... ... ... ... ... ... 213 



