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1128. Leaves opposite 1129 



Leaves scattered .. ... 1130 



1129. Filaments white. 



Tall-shrubby, glabrous ; leaves small, from narrow- to 

 broad-lanceolar, gradully recurved -pointed, somewhat 

 inflexed at the margin ; flowers in infra-terminal spikes 

 or some scattered ; lobes of the calyx blunt, persistent ; 

 connate portions of stamens slightly longer than the 

 petals ; filaments fascicularly emanating ; fruits globular- 

 ovate, truncate, emersed. M. acuminata. 



Filaments pale-yellow. 



From a large shrub to a small or seldom tall tree, often 

 somewhat beset with soft hairlets ; bark chartaceous- 

 lamellar, whitish or pale ; leaves small, spreading, from 

 cordate- to lanceolar-ovate, short-pointed, almost flat, 

 lined by five to seven longitudinal venules ; flowers 

 rather small, in terminal or soon infra-terminal spikes ; 

 connate parts of the stamens very short ; fruits emersed. 



M. squarrosa. 



1130. Filaments pale-yellow 1131 



Filaments almost or quite white ... ... ... 1132 



1131. Leaves elongated, recurved-pointed. 



Finally from tall-shrubby to arborescent, almost glabrous ; 

 branches and branchlets hardly spreading; leaves acicular- 

 cylindrical, narrowly channelled, shining ; headlets of 

 flowers small, nearly globular ; fruits quite small, spheri- 

 cally crowded. Uff. uncinata. 



Leaves abbreviated, blunt. 



Finally from tall-shrubby to arborescent, chiefly maritime 

 and on wet ground, almost glabrous; leaves broadishly 

 linear-semicylindrical, slightly or hardly channelled, 

 often greyish-green, occasionally of a rather bluish hue, 

 frequently glandular-rough beneath ; flowers in small 

 occasionally somewhat leafy headlets or some scattered 

 or short-spiked : fruits emersed, hardly longer than broad 

 or shorter, their orifice ample, scarcely lobed. 



M. pustulata. 



