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plant very short, rather thick and turgid, singly forming 

 on their stalks and during maturation burying themselves 

 in the ground ; the flowers of this state very minute. 



(Geococcuspusillus.) S. cardaminoides. 



Perennial ... ... 644 



644. Leaves incised, the lobes broadish. 



Robust, beset with short hairlets ; lobes of the leaves acute ; 

 stigma rather large ; fruits twice or thrice as long as their 

 thick stalklets. S. Lucae. 



Leaves mostly trisected, the segments very narrow. 



A somewhat woody desert-plant, quite glabrous ; leaves 

 numerous, greyish -green, some undivided ; petals com- 

 paratively large, nearly orbicular ; fruits twice or thrice 

 as long as their slender stalklets. S. trisectum. 



CAPPARIDEA.E. 

 CAPPARIS. 



645. Outer sepals at first entirely connate, at last separating 



by irregular rupture, inner sepals petal-like. 



A small desert-tree ; leaves firm, from lanceolar-elliptical to 

 almost ovate, above pale-green, particularly beneath as 

 well as the branchlets densely beset with greyish short 

 hairlets ; flowers solitary, comparatively large ; petals 

 white, somewhat denticulated ; fruit very large, globular, 

 its outermost portion (pericarp) almost crust-like, the 

 inner portion somewhat pulpy. Figure 7. 



C. Mitchell!. 



DROSERACEAE. 



DROSERA. 



646. Leaves all basal 647 



Leaves also along the stem ... ... ... ... 652 



647. Leaves divided into two or more lobes. 



Tall plant ; root fibrous ; leaf-lobes long and narrow ; 

 racemes two or more, constituting a cymous panicle ; 

 flowers large ; styles usually three, penicillar-multifid ; 

 seeds linear-filiform. D. binata. 



Leaves undivided ... ... ... ... 648 



