146 Key to the System of 



CORREA. 



712. Calyx cleft beyond the middle. 



A shrub, often tall in age, scantily beset with nairlets; 

 leaves usually of thin texture, from cordate- to lanceolar- 

 ovate, somewhat denticulated ; flowers two or three 

 together or solitary, their stalklets very thin and rather 

 long, jointed ; lobes of the calyx from deltoid to semi- 

 lanceolar, pointed ; petals coherent, greenish or dull- 

 purplish ; four of the filaments dilated towards the base ; 

 anthers yellow. Figure 14. C. aemula. 



Calyx lobeless ... .. ............ 713 



713. Petals disconnected, white, comparatively short. 



A coast-shrub, often tall in age ; leaves of thick texture, 

 from orbicular to ovate, beneath closely beset with very 

 short hairlets ; flowers two together or solitary, rather 

 short ; anthers red. C. alba. 



Petals coherent, greenish or largely red outside, 

 comparatively long ... ... ... ... ... 714 



714. Four of the filaments dilated towards the base. 



A shrub, seldom very tall ; leaves from cordate to elliptical ; 

 flowers mostly rather long, often solitary and on short 

 stalklets ; calyx firm, entire or minutely quadri-denti- 

 culated ; anthers yellow. C. speciosa. 



None of the filaments dilated towards the base. 



Shrub of high mountain-regions, usually tall, sometimes 

 arborescent, dwarfed in the alps ; leaves of very firm 

 texture, almost flat, from ovate to elliptical ; calyx 

 minutely seldom elongatedly denticulated ; petals greenish 

 or somewhat yellowish, seldom largely red outside; anthers 

 yellowish-green. C. Lawrenciana. 



CEX.ASTRTTS. 



715. Tall woody climber. 



Evergreen ; leaves rather large, short-stalked, from almost 

 ovate to lanceolar, somewhat serrulated ; flowers small, 

 in panicles ; petals yellowish- white ; stigma of the fruit- 

 bearing flowers three-cleft; fruit three-celled or rarely two- 

 celled, outside at last reddish-yellow ; seeds enclosed in a 

 succulent orange-colored arillar appendage. Figure 28. 



C. Australis. 



