86 Key to the System of 



IMYOPORINAE. 



427. Tube of corolla abbreviated, lobes nearly equal. 



Shrubs or small trees, mostly glabrous ; leaves seldom 

 opposite ; corolla white, colored -dotted. Myoporum. 1734 



Tube of corolla elongated, lobes very unequal. 



Shrubs or small trees, glabrous or beset with hairlets ; leaves 

 oftener scattered than opposite ; corolla white or variously 

 red or blue, seldom green or yellow, often dotted. 

 Figure 108. Eremophila. 1741 



Gymnospermae. 



CONIFERAE. 



428. Fruits several or many within a whorly lobed strobile. 



Cypress-like shrubs or trees ; leaves very minute, three or 

 rarely four in a whorl, or seldom binate, decurrent; 

 strobile comparatively large, its segments six, rarely four 

 or eight, ligneous, usually arranged in an almost double 

 whorl; fertile fruits membranously margined. ' ' Sandarac- 

 Cypresses." Figure 111. (Frenela.) Callitris. 1750 



Fruits solitary on a usually succulent stalklet. 



Shrubs or oitener trees ; leaves often scattered and rather 



large ; fruit never large. (Podocarpus.) Nageia. 1752 



r/IONOCOTYLEDONEAE. 

 ORCHXDEAE. 



429. Leaves undeveloped ... ... ... ... ... 430 



Leaves developed ... ... ... ... 431 



430. Calyx-lobes disconnected. 



Root forming irregularly elongated tubers ; flowers in a 

 raceme, pink or dark-reddish; calyx-lobes quite similar 

 to the lateral petals ; pollen-masses two, waxy, fixed to 

 two stipitules. Dipodium. 1753 



Calyx-lobes turgidly connate. 



Root forming irregularly a tuber ; flowers in a raceme ; 

 calyx upwards outside brownish ; petals whitish, the 

 lateral two minute ; pollen-masses four, each consisting 

 of coherent particles. Gastrodia. 1754 



