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1132. Spikes short or capitular. 



Finally from tall-shrubby to arborescent, chiefly paludal, 

 almost glabrous, often many-stemmed ; leaves short, 

 from narrow- to broad-linear, somewhat semi- cylindrical, 

 rather straight or slightly curved, hardly pointed, often 

 smooth ; fruits emersed, scarcely longer than broad or 

 shorter, their orifice ample, permanently lobed. 



3YL ericifolia. 



Spikes elongate-cylindrical ............ 1133 



1133. Stamens twice or three times as long as the petals, 



with fascicular-emanating filaments. 



Finally 'from tall- shrubby to arborescent, chiefly maritime 

 and on dry ground, almost glabrous ; leaves rather short, 

 from linear- to narrow-lanceolar, almost flat or some- 

 what semi -cylindrical, recurved-spreading ; calyx-lobes 

 deciduous ; fruits emersed, lobeless, evidently longer than 

 broad, much contracted towards the orifice. 



M. parviflora. 



Stamens several or many times longer than the petals, 

 with pinnular-emanating filaments. 



Finally from tall-shrubby to arborescent, almost glabrous ; 

 leaves rather long, from narrow- to broad-linear, recurved- 

 pointed, somewhat channelled ; calyx-lobes persistent ; 

 fruits emersed, somewhat broader than long, their orifice 

 ample, permanently lobed. M. armillaris. 



1134. Filaments crimson ... ............ 1135 



Filaments yellowish or pale-purplish... ... ... 1138 



1135. Filaments comparatively short. 



From shrubby to occasionally arborescent ; leaves chan- 

 nelled-linear, pungent ; anthers yellow. 



C. brachyandrus. 



Filaments quite long ... ... ... ... ... 1136 



1136. Anthers yellow. 



Shrub, moderately high ; leaves very rigid, usually narrow- 

 lanceolar, almost flat, beneath often glandular-rough ; 

 flowers crowded in the spikes. C. COCCiueus. 



Anthers reddish-black ............ 1137 



