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686. Calyx about half as long as the petals. 



A slender shrub, much beset with spreading hairlets ; leaves 

 rather small, crowded, from elliptical- to broad-linear, 

 revolute at the margin ; flowers crowded into terminal 

 umbels ; petals yellow, almost glabrous ; filaments ex- 

 serted, glabrous ; anthers blunt ; fruitless ending in a 

 long and narrow appendage. E. phylicoides. 



Calyx very much shorter than the petals or obliterated 687 



687. Stigmas large, generally disconnected ... 688 

 Stigmas very minute, connected ... 690 



688. Leaves revolute at the margin. 



An alpine shrub, usually of low stature ; leaves mostly 

 crowded, small, very firm, from elliptic- to orbicular- 

 ovate, beset with starry hairlets- underneath ; flowers 

 terminal, solitary or two or three together ; petals small, 

 yellow ; filaments glabrous ; anthers erect, blunt ; stigmas 

 clavate, reflexed ; fruitlets blunt. E. trymalioides. 



Leaves flat ... ... ... ... ... ... 689 



689. Stigmas capitulate-connected. 



A shrub, from dwarf to rather tall ; leaves often large, 

 flaccid, from lanceolar- to ovate-elliptical, beset with 

 starry hairlets underneath ; umbels sessile, few -flowered ; 

 calyx rudimentary ; petals yellow ; filaments glabrous ; 

 anthers erect, blunt ; fruitlets pointed. 



E. correifolius. 



Stigmas disconnected, spreading. 



A dwarf shrub ; leaves flaccid, chiefly fascicular-crowded, 

 sessile, from elliptical- to obcordate-cuneate, densely beset 

 with starry hairlets ; flowers large, terminal, solitary ; 

 calyx absent ; petals yellow ; filaments glabrous ; anthers 

 erect, blunt ; fruitlets blunt. E. pleuraudroides. 



690. Leaves truncate or bilobed at the summit. 



Shrub, rather tall, quite glabrous; leaves firm, comparatively 

 large, narrowly cuneate-elliptical, slightly bilobed at the 

 upper end, but otherwise entire, recurved at the margin, 

 greyish underneath ; umbels terminal, short-stalked ; 

 petals relatively long, tubular-coherent towards the base ; 

 filaments exserted, glabrous ; anthers blunt ; fruitlets 

 apiculated. Figure 15. E. Ralstoui. 



Leaves acute or rounded-blunt at the summit ... 691 



