Victorian Plants. 137 



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673. Leaves flat at the margin ... ... ... ... 674 



Leaves recurved at the margin ... ... ... 675 



674. Petals quite white. 



A large shrub or finally a tree, occasionally quite tall ; 

 branchlets whorled ; leaves large, broad -lanceolar, entire, 

 soon glabrous, those at the summit of the branchlets 

 whorl-like crowded ; flowers fragrant, several or many, 

 terminal ; sepals unequally connate ; fruit turgid, outside 

 brownish- or reddish-yellow ; valves two, rarely three ; 

 seeds almost ruby-colored, sticky. P. undulatuni. 



Petals quite yellow. 



A tall shrub or slender tree ; branchlets often pendent ; 

 leaves from lanceolar- to broad-linear, much pointed, 

 entire, glabrous ; flowers few or only two together or 

 solitary, fragrant ; fruit strongly compressed ; valves 

 two, rarely three, almost of bony hardness, dull orange- 

 colored outside, bright- yellow inside ; seeds orange-red, 

 sticky. P. phillyroides. 



675. Petals quite yellow. 



A shrub, finally large or even then arborescent ; leaves 

 large, from ovate to narrow-lanceolar, entire, pointed, 

 beneath as well as the branchlets and stalklets beset with 

 brownish hairlets ; flowers few or several ; fruit turgid, 

 two- or three- valved, very firm ;" seeds garnet-colored, 

 sticky. P. revolution. 



Petals mixedly purplish and yellowish. 



A small or sometimes middle-sized tree ; leaves from 

 lanceolar- to linear-elliptical, entire, densely beset be- 

 neath with short hairlets ; flowers several, few or some- 

 times only two or one; fruit turgid, very firm, two -valved; 

 seeds brownish-red, sticky. P. bicolor. 



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676. Seeds placed vertically, surrounded by a thin and 



narrow border. 



Shrub, from rather dwarf to tall, occasionally becoming a 

 tree, not rarely somewhat spinescent, flowering late in the 

 season ; leaves scattered or fascicled, generally small and 

 entire, from obovate- to elliptical-cuneate ; flowers small, 

 in panicles ; petals white ; fruit obcordate- or renate- 

 orbicular, rather small, dry. B. spinosa. 



