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narrow-elliptical to roundish-ovate ; flowers large, in long 

 racemes ; petals pink, the upper with two prominent 

 supra-basal callosities ; fruit large, inflated. 



S. Greyana. 



Fruit without any stalk-like base ... ... 1045 



1045. Petals bright-red. 



Rather tall, scantily or hardly beset with hairlets ; leaflets 

 from lanceolar- to oval-elliptical; stipules deltoid-cordate; 

 flowers few or several in each raceme, rather large; lower 

 petals infracted -ascendant, pointed, sideways slightly 

 twisted ; fruit rather large, depressed, ovate, somewhat 

 pointed. S. plagiotropis. 



Petals violet-colored or pale ... .. ... ... 1046 



1046. Fruit ovate-globular. 



Leaflets very small, numerous, from obcordate- to cuneate- 

 ovate; stipules minute; racemes elongated; flowers small; 

 fruit short. S. micropliylla. 



Fruit ovate- or cylindric-ellipsoid ... .. ... 1047 



1047. Upper petal without any supra-basal callosities. 



Depressed, deleterious, somewhat beset with appressed 

 hairlets ; leaflets from linear- to ovate-elliptical ; racemes 

 generally rather elongated ; hairlets of calyces and stalk - 

 lets appressed, often blackish ; petals almost violet- 

 colored ; fruit often turning blackish, nearly ellipsoid, 

 pointed. S. lessertifolia* 



Upper petal with two supra-basal callosities. 



Rather dwarf, much beset with short often shining-grey 

 hairlets; leaflets from broadish-linear to narrow-elliptical, 

 blunt or notched; racemes very short, on elongated stalks; 

 fruit nearly ellipsoid-cylindrical. S. phacoides. 



OLYCYRRHIZA. 



1048. Fruit very short, prickly-rough. 



A perennial, usually diffuse herb, of strong scent ; leaflets 

 from elliptic- to linear-lanceolar ; flowers in spike-like 

 racemes ; upper petal acute, pale-lilac or whitish, the 

 other petals upwards somewhat violet ; fruit irrespective 

 of its asperities copiously glandular outside. Figure 48. 



G. psoraloides. 



