Victorian Plants. 177 



Erect. 



Almost herbaceous*; leaves from rhomboidal to obovate, 

 rather large, conspicuously sinuous and denticulated ; 

 staminate and pistillate flowers on the same plant, all in 

 axillary clusters ; fruit-calyx rhomboidal, turgid. 



A. Muelleri. 



849. Fruit-calyx of almost foliaceous texture ... ... 850 



Fruit-calyx succulent or of almost spongy texture ... 851 



850. Lobes of the fruit-calyx minute, entire, without any 



appendage. 



Desert-plant, almost herbaceous, often prostrate; leaves 

 from elliptical and cuneate to rhomboidal, usually some- 

 what sinuous and denticulated ; staminate and pistillate 

 flowers on the same plant, all in axillary clusters ; fruit- 

 calyx narrow -tubular. A. leptocarpum. 



Lobes of the fruit-calyx with two pointed lobules and 

 with a dorsal appendage. 



Desert-plant, alniost herbaceous, often prostrate ; leaves 

 from elliptical and cuneate to rhomboidal, usually some- 

 what sinuous and denticulated ; staminate and pistillate 

 flowers on the same plant, all in axillary clusters ; fruit- 

 calyx compressed-tubular. A. limbatuni. 



851. Fruit-calyx succulent and green. 



Coast-plant, quite herbaceous, prostrate, very succulent, 

 papillular - glistening ; leaves small, from elliptical to 

 rhomboidal, indented ; staminate and pistillate flowers on 

 the same plant, all axillary, the pistillate flowers solitary 

 or two together; fruit-calyx turgid, its lobes slightly 

 denticulated. A. crystalliiium. 



Fruit-calyx of spongy texture... ... ... ... 852 



852. Fruit-calyx flat at the summit. 



A desert-shrub, seldom tall ; leaves from lanceolar- to 

 rhombeous-ovate, entire or somewhat denticulated ; 

 staminate and pistillate flowers on the same plant, in 

 axillary clusters or some solitary ; fruit-calyx much 

 enlarged, from top-shaped (turbinate) to almost semi- 

 globular, transversely acute-edged, minutely bilobed at 

 the summit, without any appendages. 



A. halimoides. 



Fruit-calyx rounded at the summit ... ... ... 853 



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