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Expanding membranes of the fruit-calyx invested with 

 minute hairlets. 



Somewhat shrubby, erect, much beset with whitish hairlets ; 

 leaves generally rather long ; appendages at the orifice of 

 the calyx five, very narrow, acute. K. lanosa. 



878. Fruit-calyx with usually three decurrent membranes. 



Somewhat shrubby, erect, glabrous ; leaves comparatively 

 long, semicylindric-linear, generally acute ; horizontal 

 expansion of the fruit-calyx broad. K. triptera. 



Fruit-calyx without any decurrent membranes ... 879 



879. Fruit-calyx top-shaped below, broad-conical above. 



Shrubby, erect, much beset with short hairlets ; leaves 

 comparatively short ; horizontal expansion of the fruit- 

 calyx broad. K. pyramidata. 



Fruit-calyx almost hemispherical ... 880 



880. Horizontal membrane of the fruit-calyx quite broad... 881 

 Horizontal membrane of the fruit-calyx very narrow 882 



881. Leaves rather long. 



Shrubby, not rarely spinescent, somewhat beset with whitish 

 or greyish or brownish short hairlets; leaves usually rather 

 long, but sometimes diminutive or obliterated ; vertex of 

 the fruit-calyx flat. Figure 36. K. villosa. 



Leaves rather short. 



Shrubby, closely invested with whitish or greyish or 

 brownish short hairlets; leaves crowded, thick, blunt; 

 expansion of fruit-calyx not rarely reddish. 



K. sedifolia. 



882. Shrubby and erect. 



Slightly beset with very short hairlets ; leaves very small, 

 quite narrow, somewhat turgid ; flowers very small, 

 crowded into leafy spikes ; fruit-calyx much depressed ; 

 expansion of fruit not always developed. 



K. microphylla. 

 Herbaceous and quite dwarf. 



Beset with short and somewhat shining hairlets ; leaves 

 flat, lanceolate-linear, comparatively long ; fruit-calyx, 

 except at its vertex, generally glabrous. 



K. humillima. 



