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Leaves almost blunt ... ... 1007 



1007. Flowers several in the corymbs. 



A slender shrub, never tall ; leaves rather short, thinly 

 linear-cylindrical, blunt or hardly pointed ; flowers small, 

 mostly terminal, crowded into leafy capitular sessile 

 corymbs ; upper lobes of calyx much connected ; petals 

 long persistent ; lamina of the upper petals somewhat 

 broader than long ; fruit almost ovate, partly exserted. 



D. ciuerasceus. 



Flowers few in the corymbs or some solitary. 



A small, diffuse shrub ; leaves much spreading or deflexed,. 

 very short, linear-cylindrical, somewhat channelled, hardly 

 pointed; flowers mostly terminal, few or several together; 

 upper lobes of calyx much connected ; petals long per- 

 sistent ; fruit ovate-globular, with a short stalk-like base. 



D. patula. 



AOTUS. 



1008. Leaves from narrow-lanceolar to linear, almost blunt 



or slightly pointed. 



A shrub, from rather dwarf to somewhat tall, much beset 

 with short hairlets ; leaves from quinary to ternately 

 whorled or two together or oftener scattered, repressed 

 at the margin ; flowers axillary, either solitary or two 

 or three together, frequently forming spike-like leafy 

 racemes ; lobes of the calyx about as long as the tube ; 

 fruit quite small, globular-ovate, somewhat turgid, much 

 exserted, its base stalk-like. A. villosa. 



HOVEA. 



1009. Prostrate or ascendant. 



Semi-herbaceous ; lower leaves almost ovate, upper from 

 lanceolar to broad-linear, slightly beset with hairlets 

 underneath, generally somewhat recurved at the margin ; 

 fruit from almost transversely oval to oblique-roundish, 

 nearly glabrous, devoid of any stalk-like base. 



H. heterophylla. 



Quite erect. 



Tall-shrubby ; leaves very firm, from narrow-elliptical or 

 lanceolar to broad-linear, often closely invested with 

 short brown hairlets underneath, flat or recurved at the 

 margin ; fruit obliquely or transversely roundish-ovate, 

 quite densely beset with very short brownish hairlets, 

 devoid of any stalk-like base. H. longifolia. 



