Victorian Plants. 



681. Glabrous or beset with often starry hairlets... ... 682 



Extensively or scantily beset with shining scalelets... 692 



682. Leaves very broad. 



Leaves large, oval, glabrous, flat, entire, shining, of a slightly 

 reddish hue and an oily lustre ; petals unknown, but 

 probably contiguous before expansion ; fruit unknown. 



E. amplifolius. 



Leaves small or comparatively narrow ... 683 



683. Flowers all axillary and usually solitary. 



Dwarf ; leaves linear- or narrow- Ian ceolar, pointed, almost 

 or quite glabrous ; flowers seldom two together ; petals 

 white, outside glabrous ; filaments suddenly pointed at 

 the apex ; stigmas minute, united ; fruitlets conspicuously 

 pointed. E. pungeiis. 



Flowers mostly or all terminal, generally crowded or 

 umbellate ... ... ... ... ... ... 684 



684. Ovularies less than five ... ... ... ... 685 



Ovularies five ... ... ... ... ... ... 686 



685. Leaves truncate or bilobed at the summit. 



Shrub, from dwarf and depressed to rather tall and erect ; 

 branchlets beset with starry hairlets ; leaves often 

 serrulated, from almost lanceolar to ovate and elliptical, 

 but never attenuated into a pointed apex, glabrous, shining 

 on both pages ; flowers generally in corymbs or umbels ; 

 petals small, glabrous, white, tinged with red ; filaments 

 glabrous ; ovularies two or three, rarely four ; fruitlets 

 conspicuously pointed. E. Hillebraiicli. 



Leaves acute or rounded-blunt at the summit. 



Leaves quite small, from linear to almost cordate, revolute 

 at the margin, underneath beset with starry- or scaly - 

 united hairlets ; flowers terminally crowded, very small ; 

 petals yellowish or whitish ; filaments scantily beset with 

 hairlets ; stigmas minute, united ; ovularies always two ; 

 fruitlets blunt. E. capitatus. 



