156 Key to the System of 



LASIOPETALUIVI. 



753. Leaves flaccid. 



A shrub, from quite dwarf to rather tall, invested with 

 starry hairlets ; leaves almost cordate, nearly mem- 

 branous, entire or slightly sinuous ; flowers rather large, 

 in cymes ; floral bracts linear-filiform, solitary, seldom 

 two ; calyx membranous, whitish or pale-pink ; anthers 

 opening by two terminal pores; style beset with re- 

 troversed fascicular hairlets. L. Scliulzenii. 



Leaves firm ... ... ... ... ... ... 754 



751. Flowers crowded almost into a capitulate cyme. 



A shrub, finally quite tall ; leaves large, from lanceolar- to 

 cordate-ovate, flat, beneath densely invested with whitish 

 minute starry hairlets; floral bracts three, ovate -lanceolar, 

 connate at the base, placed unilaterally ; calyx inside 

 glabrous, pale ; petals scale-like ; anthers at last bursting 

 longitudinally. L. dasyphyllum. 



Flowers dispersed ... ... 755 



755. Calyx inside glabrous ... .. ... ... 756 



Calyx inside beset with very short hairlets ... ... 757 



756. Stalklets of flowers conspicuous. 



A shrub, finally rather tall ; leaves very firm, mostly 

 narrow-elliptical, almost or quite flat, entire, underneath 

 closely invested with very short starry hairlets ; cymes 

 few-flowered ; flowers rather large ; floral bracts three, 

 from linear- to lanceolar -elliptical, connate at the base, 

 unilateral ; anthers opening by two terminal pores. 

 Figure 20. L. Behrii. 



Stalklets of flowers very short. 



A shrub, at last rather tall ; leaves very firm, from elliptic- 

 to broad-linear, entire, almost flat, underneath closely 

 invested with minute starry hairlets ; floral bracts three, 

 almost linear, connate at the base, unilateral ; cymes 

 short-stalked ; flowers quite smooth ; anthers opening by 

 two terminal pores. L. parviflorrtm. 



757. Stalklets of flowers conspicuous. 



A shrub, usually rather dwarf ; leaves very firm, from 

 elliptic- to broad-linear, entire, almost flat, underneath 

 closely beset with minute starry hairlets; cymes racemose, 

 each on a conspicuous very slender stalk ; flowers quite 



