Victorian Plants. 213 



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1002. Flowers singly sessile within tufts of terminal leaves. 



A small shrub, much beset with soft hairlets ; leaves small, 

 recurved-spreading, linear, generally pointed, refracted 

 at the margin ; flowers shorter than the leaves ; bracteoles 

 ovate, shorter than the tube of the calyx ; the latter 

 invested with shining appressed hairlets outside ; fruit 

 ovate, slightly compressed, enclosed. 



F. pleurandroides. 



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1003. Calyx gradually attenuated at the base ... ... 1004 



Calyx bluntish at the base ... 1006 



1004. Lower petals pointed, nearly as long as the lateral 



petals. 



A small shrub, much beset with short spreading hairlets ; 

 leaves short, spreading, linear-cylindrical, almost blunt ; 

 corymbs long-stalked ; upper lobes of calyx much dis- 

 connected ; petals orange -colored and reddish, early 

 deciduous, the lamina of the upper petal much broader 

 than long ; fruit almost globular. D. hispida. 



Lower petals blunt, shorter than the lateral petals... 1005 



1005. Flowers mostly terminal. 



A thin-branched shrub, seldom tall ; leaves small, slender, 

 linear-cylindrical, blunt or slightly pointed, with a furrow 

 along the upper side ; flowers in usually sessile corymbs 

 or clusters ; upper lobes of calyx much disconnected ; 

 petals early deciduous ; the lamina of the upper petal 

 much broader than long ; fruit globular-ovate. 



D. ericifolia. 

 Flowers mostly axillary. 



A thin-branched shrub, often rather tall ; leaves small, 

 linear-cylindrical, blunt or slightly pointed, with a 

 furrow along the upper side ; flowers solitary or two or 

 three together, sometimes forming leafy racemes ; upper 

 lobes of calyx much disconnected; petals early deciduous; 

 the lamina of the upper petal much broader than long ; 

 fruit almost enclosed. D. floribunda. 



1006. Leaves pungent. 



A thin-branched shrub, seldom tall ; leaves rigid, acicular- 

 linear, keeled ; flowers mostly terminal, in almost sessile 

 corymbs ; upper lobes of calyx much connected ; petals 

 long persistent ; lamina of the upper petal somewhat 

 broader than long. D. juniperina. 



