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Fruitlets rough. 



Annual, erect plant, often beset with soft hairlets ; stems 

 leafy, weak, never tall ; leaves small, much dissected ; 

 flowers mostly opposite to the leaves, sessile or short- 

 stalked, very small ; styles very short. 



R. parviflorns. 



BXYOSTTXIUS. 



595. Style shorter than its fruitlet. 



Glabrous ; petals pale, either yellowish or greenish, occa- 

 sionally undeveloped; stamens twenty or fewer, sometimes 

 reduced to five. M. minimus. 



CLEMATIS. 



596. Anthers terminated by a pointed appendage. 



Segments of leaves lanceolate- or cordate-oval, rather rigid, 

 often indented ; stamiiiate and pistillate flowers mostly 

 on separate plants ; sepals pure- or yellowish-white, com- 

 paratively large. C. aristata. 



Anthers without any appendage. 



Segments of leaves linear- or oval- elliptical, rather flaccid ; 

 staminate and pistillate flowers mostly on separate plants; 

 sepals yellowish-white ; four of the outer stamens not 

 rarely enlarged and alternating with the sepals. 



C v micropliylla, 



CAX.THA. 



597. Basal lobes of the leaves inflexed upwards. 



..Dwarf plant; leaves small, shining, without any denticu- 

 lations beyond the two lobes, cordate- or elliptical-ovate ; 

 sepals five to eight, white, linear-lanceolar. 



C. introloba. 



OXX ACBAB. 



DRXTOYS. 



598. Fruitlets one to four, the stigma of each decurrent. 



From a dwarf shrub to a small tree, restricted to subalpine 

 or cool forest-country ; leaves from narrow-elliptical to 

 lanceolar-ovate, narrowed into the base, not rarely of a 

 reddish tint ; umbels terminal, nearly sessile. Native 

 "Pepper-tree." Figure 3. D. aromatica. 



