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underneath beset with silvery-shining scalelets ; umbels 

 with several flowers ; filaments glabrous ; fruitless hardly 

 apiculated. E. sediflorus. 



Leaves lobeless at the summit ... 696 



696. Leaves rather elongated. 



A shrub, from dwarf to somewhat tall ; leaves from narrow- 

 to linear-elliptical, mostly flat, underneath beset with 

 silvery-shining scalelets ; umbels terminal, simple or some- 

 times compound ; filaments glabrous ; fruitlets hardly 

 apiculated. E. lepidotus. 



Leaves much abbreviated. 



A low alpine shrub : leaves quite small, crowded, thick, 

 narrow-elliptical, recurved at the margin, underneath 

 beset with silvery-shining scalelets ; umbels terminal, 

 sessile; filaments glabrous; fruitlets somewhat apiculated; 

 seeds without any lustre. E. alpinus. 



697. Anthers terminated by a very conspicuous appendage 698 

 Anthers terminated by a very minute appendage ... 699 



698. Anthers ending in a bearded narrow appendage. 



Shrub, from dwarf to rather tall, almost glabrous ; leaves 

 from elliptical- to linear-lanceolar or broad-linear, entire, 

 generally flat, of an oily lustre and slightly reddish tinge ; 

 petals pink, glabrous, somewhat connivent ; filaments 

 almost coherent, ciliolated ; fruitlets blunt. 



E. Crowei. 



Anthers ending in a glabrous broadish appendage. 



Shrub, rather tall ; leaves quite large, generally lanceolar, 

 of thick texture, finally glabrous ; flowers relatively large, 

 axillary, solitary, their stalklets bearing several over- 

 lapping roundish bracts ; petals pink, densely beset with 

 minute hairlets ; filaments conspicuously ciliolated ; fruit- 

 lets blunt. E. lanceolatus. 



699. Fruitlets erect, along the inner angle high-connate, 



blunt. 



A shrub, usually tall, almost glabrous, but rough from granu- 

 lar glandules ; leaves comparatively large, of rather thin 

 texture, from cuneate- to elliptical-lanceolar, flat, entire, 

 sessile ; flowers usually solitary ; petals whitish ; filaments 

 ciliolated ; fruitlets blunt. E. trachypliyllus. 



