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Leaves usually several times longer than broad, 

 pungent-pointed. 



A rather small somewhat spinescent shrub ; branchlets not 

 rarely beset with hairlets ; leaves usually quite short, 

 from often linear to lanceolar-ovate and even rhomboid- 

 orbicular, horizontally somewhat spreading, their margin 

 prominent and sometimes slightly recurved ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary or two or few together, their stalks and 

 stalklets usually very short ; calyx conspicuously lobed ; 

 fruit much compressed, sharply pointed. D. ulicina. 



969. Leaves articulated on the branchlets. 



A small glabrous shrub ; leaves short, straight, acicular- 

 cylindrical or occasionally somewhat vertical-compressed ; 

 flowers axillary, few or several together, somewhat 

 racemous, on very short stalklets ; calyx much narrowed 

 at the base, minutely lobed; fruit considerably compressed. 



D. genistifolia. 



Leaves continuous with the branchlets. 



A small spinescent glabrous shrub ; branchlets somewhat 

 flexuous, slightly streaked ; leaves phyllodinous, short, 

 conic-cylindrical, thornlike-pungent, usually somewhat 

 recurved, without any articulation emanating from the 

 branchlets ; flowers axillary, few or sometimes only two 

 together, seldom solitary, always on very short stalks and 

 stalklets ; petals usually reddish ; fruit rather large, very 

 turgid, its blunt lateral angle nearly as high as the pointed 

 terminal angle. D. brevifolia. 



EUTAXXA. 



970. Fruit turgid, attenuated into a stalk-like base. 



A small almost glabrous shrub, occasionally quite dwarf, 

 sometimes spinescent ; leaves small, from oval to linear, 

 somewhat concave ; flowers small, axillary, on short stalk- 

 lets ; bracteoles linear, somewhat removed from the calyx ; 

 fruit beset with hairlets. 33. empetrifolia. 



PULTENAEA. 



971. Petals all pink. 



Shrubby, from dwarf to rather tall ; leaves rigid, linear- 

 cylindrical, channelled above, somewhat granular-rough ; 

 flowers in terminal headlets ; bracteoles inserted at the 

 base of the calyx, short, linear-lanceolar ; calyx outside 



