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Clusters of flowers sessile. 



Vestiture extensively velvet-like ; leaves from linear to 

 elliptical, revolute at the margin; upper stipules relatively 

 large ; flower-clusters head-like crowded, usually sup- 

 ported by a single floral leaf ; endocarp of f ruitlets 

 membranous. C. Sllbochreata. 



.1171. Leaves from ovate to orbicular, lobeless. 



Finally tall, much beset with soft hairlets; leaves often 

 large, always much wrinkled, somewhat wavy at the 

 margin ; floral leaves roundish, velvety- whitish also 

 above ; flower-clusters forming leafy cymes ; f ruitlets 

 indehiscent. C. Hookeri. 



Leaves cuneate-obcordate, short-trilobed at the upper 

 end. 



Prostrate ; leaves always small, hardly wrinkled, their 

 lobes sometimes indented or the middle lobe wanting ; 

 flower-clusters arranged in leafy cymes ; floral leaves 

 velvety-whitish above ; endocarp of fruitlets membranous. 



C. obcordata. 



1172. Flowers in cymes. 



Finally tall, ; vestiture thin, velvet-like ; leaves linear, 

 spreading, revolute at the margin, glabrous above ; 

 flowers few in each cyme ; bracts persistent, lanceolar, 

 pointed. C. D'Altoiii. 



Flowers in clusters or leafy spikes ... ... ... 1173 



1173. Lobes of the calyx shorter than the tube. 



Nearly glabrous ; branchlets often spinescent ; leaves small, 

 usually from narrow-elliptical to roundish-ovate, some- 

 what recurved at the margin or almost flat ; flowers 

 arranged in short leafy spikes ; calyx much longer than 

 the roundish bracts, with a thinly velvet-like vestiture 

 outside ; fruitlets longitudinally dehiscent. 



C. aniara. 



Lobes of the calyx as long as the tube. 



Much beset with very short hairlets ; branchlets hardly 

 spinescent ; leaves very small, recurved at the margin, 

 usually blunt; flowers quite small, crowded into clusters; 

 bracts nearly as long as the calyx ; fruitlets longitudinally 

 dehiscent. C. tonientosa. 



