Victorian Plants. 



invested with appressed shining hairlets, its lobes rather 

 acute; fruit oblique-ovate, pointed, somewhat turgid, 

 beset with hairlets. Figure 46. P. rosea. 



Petals yellowish or partly brownish- or dark-reddish 972 



972. Flowers axillary-scattered or crowded into almost 



terminal but leafy clusters (Exception : some forms of 



P. canaliculata)... ... ... .. ... ... 973 



Flowers terminal, in leafless headlets, or when solitary 

 surrounded by numerous bracts ... 986 



973. Leaves ternately whorled ... ... ... ... 974 



Leaves scattered, rarely some opposite or ternate ... 975 



974. Leaves very small. 



An alpine plant, prostrate, somewhat beset with shining 

 appressed hairlets ; leaves elliptic -linear and rather 

 cuneate, incurved at the margin ; flower-stalklets gene- 

 rally longer than the leaves ; bracteoles inserted at the 

 base of the calyx ; upper lobes of the calyx much broader 

 than the lower ; fruit much compressed, almost orbicular, 

 sessile within the calyx. P. teuella. 



Leaves rather large. 



An erect shrub, hardly tall ; leaves generally greyish-green 

 and glabrous, flat, from rhomboid-cuneate or almost fan- 

 shaped to nearly cordate or orbicular or ovate, almost 

 pungently pointed ; flowers comparatively large, on con- 

 spicuous stalklets, often ternate-axillary at the whorls ; 

 bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, very narrow, 

 acutely pointed ; upper lobes of the calyx much broader 

 than the lower ; fruit turgid, oblique-ovate, acute, 

 glabrous, sessile within the calyx ; seeds black, without 

 any lustre. P. temata. 



975. Leaves incurved at the margin ... ... ... 976 



Leaves recurved at the margin ... ... ... 985 



976. Erect or diffuse 977 



Prostrate 984 



977. Leaves pungently pointed ... ... ... ... 978 



Leaves blunt or slightly pointed ... ... ... 979 



