Victorian Plants. 147 



LINEA.E. 



XiZNUBX. 



716. Styles connate to beyond the middle. 



Perennial, glabrous ; leaves from narrow-lanceolar to almost 

 linear ; sepals membranously margined ; petals blue ; 

 staminodia undeveloped ; fruit rather small. 



Ii. marginale. 



STA.CKHOUSIEA.E. 

 STACK.HOUSIA, 



717. Quite depressed; flowers singly terminal. 



Alpine plant, forming large patches; leaves carnulent, 

 from spatular- to elliptic-linear ; flowers very fragrant ; 

 corolla from intense- to pale-yellow ; fruitlets dorsally 

 blunt. Figure 29. S. pulvinaris. 



Erect; flowers in a spike ... ... ... ... 716 



718. Fruitlets each with three dorsal membranous angles. 



Coast-plant ; leaves very carnulent, from oval-cuneate to 

 spatular ; flowers crowded in the spike, fragrant ; corolla 

 cream-colored. S. spatulata. 



Fruitlets dorsally blunt ... ... ... ... 719 



719. Corolla generally cream-colored. 



Leaves from oval-lanceolar to almost linear; flowers crowded 

 in the spikes, fragrant. S. linarifolia. 



Corolla greenish- or bright-yellow ... ... ... 720 



720. Flowers crowded in the spike. 



Leaves broadly linear ; flowers fragrant ; corolla intensely 

 yellow, its lobes obtuse. S, flava. 



Flowers distant in the spike. 



Leaves from elliptical to linear or diminutive ; flowers small; 

 corolla yellowish or greenish, its lobes acute. 



S. viminea. 



