164 Key to tie System of 



788. Valvular seed-bearing bracteoles with a rough dorsal 



appendage. 



Branchlets very slender ; whorls producing usually five 

 denticular rudimentary leaves ; strobile-like fruit-masses 

 very small; seed-like fruits dark-brown. C. liana. 



Valvular seed-bearing bracteoles with a smooth dorsal 

 appendage ... ... ... ... ... 789 



789. Strobile-like fruit-masses rather large. 



Whorls producing six to eight very short denticular rudi- 

 mentary leaves ; seed-bearing valvular bracteoles blunt ; 

 seed -like fruits dark-brown. C. distyla. 



Strobile-like fruit-masses quite small. 



Whorls producing six to eight very short denticular rudi- 

 mentary leaves ; seed-bearing valvular bracteoles blunt ; 

 seed-like fruits dark-brown. Ci paludosa. 



PHYTOLACCEA.E. 

 DIBYIVXOTHECA. 



790. Pistils three or more. 



A rather small shrub; leaves channelled- or semicylindric- 

 linear, usually at the upper end recurved and pointed ; 

 flowers small, axillary, solitary, on very short stalklets, 

 the staminate and pistillate flowers on distinct plants ; 

 anthers almost sessile, in one circular row ; fruitlets 

 rather small, dorsally dehiscent. Figure 43. 



D. pleiococca. 



CODONOCARPUS. 



791. Leaves from almost lanceolar to obovate and rhombeous. 



Finally a small or rarely middle-sized tree, remaining some- 

 times shrubby ; leaves on slender stalks, greyish-green, 

 flat, somewhat acrid ; staminate flowers in racemes, their 

 anthers almost sessile, in one circular row ; pistillate 

 flowers on distinct plants ; fruitlets rather large, on long 

 stalklets; seeds wrinkled. C. cotinifolius. 



FICOIDEAE. 



1KOX.X.UGO. 



792. Leaves very narrow. 



Glabrous, very small, annual, erect or diffuse ; leaves almost 

 whorled, mostly narrow-linear ; flowers minute, on capil- 

 lary stalklets ; stamens three to five ; fruit very small, 

 three-valved. Uff. Cerviana. 



