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Leaves roundish or ovate. 



A shrub, seldom tall ; leaves small, slightly crisped and 

 denticulated, sometimes truncate ; flowers solitary or two 

 together, the staminate and pistillate mostly distinct, 

 their stalklets recurved, short ; fruit four- or five-celled, 

 its expanding membranes narrow. D. Baueri. 



727. Leaves cuneate, indented at the summit. 



Dwarf, diffuse or prostrate ; leaves from deltoid- to linear- 

 cuneate, flat ; stamens and pistils mostly in distinct 

 flowers ; fruit two- or three-celled. D. procunibeiis. 



Leaves small, obovate, much narrowed downwards, 

 entire. 



A shrub, seldom tall ; leaves very firm, without lustre, flat, 

 their lateral venules hardly perceptible ; staminate and 

 pistillate flowers mostly in distinct flowers ; anthers pale ; 

 fruit three- or four-celled ; dissepiments seceding from the 

 axis ; seeds shining. Figure 27. D. bursarif olia. 



728. Joints of rhachis dilated. 



A shrub, from -rather dwarf to tall, very viscid, often beset 

 with hairlets ; leaflets all opposite, cuneate- or rhomboid- 

 ovate, denticulated towards the summit ; stamens and 

 pistils mostly in distinct flowers ; pistillate flowers three 

 or two together or solitary ; fruit generally four-celled, 

 the expanding membranes rounded-blunt at the base and 

 summit ; seeds without lustre. D. boronifolia. 



Rhachis narrow throughout. 



A rather tall shrub ; leaflets alternate or opposite, short, 

 linear, channelled, entire ; stamens and pistils mostly in 

 distinct flowers ; pistillate flowers three or two together 

 or solitary; fruit four- or five-celled; dissepiment persistent 

 on the axis ; seeds without any lustre. 



D. stenozyga. 



HETERODZSNDRON. 



729. Leaves from broad-linear to elliptic-lanceolar, entire. 



A tall shrub, sometimes arborescent ; leaves rather long, 

 flat, beset with minute hairlets ; flowers few together, 

 occasionally two or one only ; fruit when completely 

 developed four- celled, its divisions turgid ; arillar append- 

 age of seeds bright-red. H. oleifolium. 



