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981. Flowers in leafless clusters, but only few in each. 



A spreading shrub, much invested with silvery shining 

 appressed hairlets ; leaves rather small, firm, from almost 

 obcordate- to linear-cuneate, usually glabrous above ; 

 flower-clusters axillary and terminal ; bracteoles inserted 

 far above the base of the calyx; lobes of the calyx hardly 

 as long as the tube, the two upper broadest ; fruit 

 oblique-ovate, acute, somewhat compressed. 



F. largiflorens. 



Flowers in leafy clusters or singly scattered... ... 982 



982. United upper lobes of the calyx much longer than 



the lower. 



Half-shrub, usually dwarf, much beset with spreading soft 

 hairlets ; leaves rather small, from linear- to lanceolar- 

 elliptical, concave above, darker green underneath; flowers 

 singly axillary, but crowded into leafy spikes ; bracteoles 

 narrow, inserted near the base of the calyx ; lobes of the 

 calyx pointed ; fruit scantily beset with hairlets. 



P. humilis. 



United upper lobes of the calyx hardly longer than 

 the lower ... 983 



983. Lobes of the calyx much pointed and longer than the 



tube. 



A rather small shrub, much beset with greyish appressed 

 hairlets ; leaves quite small, from obovate- to linear- 

 cuneate, exceptionally linear- cylindrical, darker green 

 underneath, always concave above, soon glabrous ; flowers 

 small, few in the upper axils ; bracteoles very narrow, 

 inserted somewhat above the base of the calyx ; fruit 

 beset with hairlets. P, parviflora. 



Lobes of the calyx scarcely pointed and about as 

 long as the tube. 



A rather dwarf shrub, much invested with soft brownish 

 hairlets ; leaves minute, from ovate to elliptical, concave 

 above, darker green underneath, their upper end recurved; 

 flowers solitary in the upper axils ; bracteoles small, 

 greenish, inserted above the base of the calyx ; lobes of 

 the calyx broadish ; fruit turgid, blunt, very small. 



P. foliolosa. 



