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691. Leaves flat. 



A subalpine shrub; leaves small, rather thin, from ovate- to 

 elliptic-lanceolar, glabrous, almost entire, shining on both 

 pages ; flowers few, in umbels or two together or some- 

 times solitary ; fruitlets pointed ; seeds shining. 



E. lamprophyllus. 



Leaves recurved at the margin. 



An alpine shrub ; leaves small, crowded, thick, from narrow- 

 elliptical to broad-linear, underneath densely beset with 

 minute whitish hairlets, entire at the margin ; flowers 

 few, in umbels or only three or two together ; petals 

 small, yellowish ; filaments glabrous ; anthers blunt ; 

 fruitlets apiculated. E. phylicifolius. 



692. Petals glabrous, white 693 



Petals outside beset with scalelets, inside yellow .. 694 



693. Leaves elongated, from elliptic- to linear-lance olar. 



Tall shrub, finally arborescent ; leaves often thin in texture, 

 entire; flat, underneath beset with silvery-shining scale- 

 lets ; flowers in simple or compound corymbs ; petals 

 small ; ovularies glabrous ; fruitlets slightly apiculated. 



E. squameus. 



Leaves rather abbreviated, nearly ovate. 



An alpine shrub ; leaves very firm, flat, entire, underneath 

 beset with silvery-shining scalelets ; flowers solitary or 

 sometimes two or few together ; petals small ; filaments 

 glabrous ; anthers blunt ; ovularies beset with scalelets ; 

 fruitlets slightly apiculated. E, ovatifolius. 



694. Leaves about half as broad as long. 



A subalpine shrub ; leaves rather small, obovate-cuneate, 

 recurved at the margin, rounded or slightly bilobed at the 

 summit, underneath beset with silvery-shining scalelets ; 

 umbels terminal, sessile, few-flowered ; filaments glabrous ; 

 fruitlets hardly apiculated. E. ozothamiioides. 



Leaves one-third as broad as long or proportionately 

 still narrower ... ... ... ... ... 69S 



695. Leaves bilobed at the summit. 



A desert-shrub, very glandular-granular ; leaves from 

 linear- to elongate-cuneate, often recurved at the margin, 



