136 Key to the System of 



BERQIA. 



669. Stamens as many as sepals and as petals. 



Small plant, erect or oftener somewhat prostrate, beset with 

 short hairlets ; leaves firm, ovate-lanceolar, denticulated ; 

 flowers clustered, very small ; floral organs from ternary 

 to quinary ; seeds ovate-ellipsoid. Figure 12. 



B. ammanuioides. 



PITTOSPOREAE. 

 BXX.XIARDXERA. 



670. Petals cohering in a long tube. 



Leaves from ovate- to linear-elliptical ; flowers solitary ; 

 petals many times longer than the sepals, greenish -yellow 

 or somewhat purplish ; style very long ; berry blue, one- 

 celled, hollow. B. loiigiflora. 



Petals bending together into a short tube ... ... 671 



671. Flowers mostly solitary. 



Leaves from ovate-lanceolar to broad-linear, often beset 

 underneath with appressed hairlets '; petals twice or three 

 times as long as the sepals, greenish- or pale-yellow, 

 sometimes purplish-tinged, pointed, towards the summit 

 recurved ; style very short ; berry livid, pulpy, two- 

 celled. B. scandeus. 



Flowers several together. 



Leaves narrow- or broad -lanceolar, sometimes almost ovate, 

 rarely orbicular, often beset underneath with appressed 

 hairlets ; petals three- or several-times longer than the 

 sepals, greenish- or pale-yellow or violet- or purplish- 

 tinged ; style very short ; berry livid, pulpy, two-celled. 



cymosa. 



CHEXRANTHEXIA. 



672. Petals rather large, dark-blue. 



Erect, slender plant, rather dwarf; leaves crowded, elongate- 

 linear, acute; flowers few, rarely two or one only; stamens 

 bent unilaterally ; anthers yellow ; fruit narrow-ellipsoid, 

 dry. C. linearis. 



