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1010. Dwarf, leafy. 



Glabrous ; leaves distant, very firm, from narrow-elliptical 

 to linear, flat or somewhat channelled ; flowers small ; 

 petals yellowish ; fruit elongate-elliptical, conspicuously 

 stipitate, slightly turgid, generally few-seeded. 



T. Muelleri. 



Tall, leafless 1011 



1011. Branchlets thinly cylindrical. 



Glabrous ; branchlets hardly spreading, furrowed ; flowers 

 very small, approximated almost into spike-like racemes ; 

 petals yellowish ; fruit oblique- elliptical, somewhat bi- 

 convex, without any stalk-like base, generally one-seeded. 



T, egena. 



Branchlets broadly flattened. 



Glabrous ; branchlets much spreading ; flowers very small, 

 scattered ; petals yellowish ; fruit oblique-obovate, some- 

 what biconvex, without any stalk-like base ; one- or two- 

 seeded. T. sulcata. 



BOSSIAEA. 



1012. Prostrate or diffuse ... ... 1013 



Erect 1015 



1013. Leaves opposite. 



Somewhat trailing or straggling ; branchlets very slender ; 

 leaves small, cordate, spurious-pinnately arranged ; flowers 

 on long almost capillary stalklets; fruit obliquely lanceolar- 

 elliptical, with a conspicuous stalk-like base. 



B. cordigera. 



Leaves alternate ... ... ... , ... ... 1014 



1014. United upper lobes of the calyx hardly longer than 



the lower. 



Prostrate or somewhat ascending, never much elongated nor 

 spinescent; leaves from orbicular- to elliptic-ovate; flowers 

 on rather long stalklets ; bracteoles disconnected ; fruit 

 elongate- elliptical, almost without any stalk-like base. 



B. prostrata. 



