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NOTOTHXXOS. 



1245. Leaves mostly from elliptic- to rhomboid-ovate, 



beneath usually greyish-yellow from a thin vestiture. 



Vestiture somewhat powdery, always much developed on 



the young shoots ; leaves opposite, rather flaccid ; clusters 



of flowers stalked, generally three together ; frait small, 



somewhat succulent. 3ST. subaureus. 



I.ORANTIZUS. 



1246. Anthers fixed at the back. 



Glabrous; leaves from orbicular -ovate to lanceolar- or 

 linear-elliptical, unilaterally curved when narrow, thick 

 in structure ; flowers in cymes ; petals elongated, usually 

 five, often yellowish or somewhat reddish, soon much dis- 

 connected ; anthers ellipsoid, oscillating ; fruit almost 

 pear-shaped, yellowish-green. Figure 66. 



L. celastroides. 



Anthers fixed at the base 1247 



1247. Flowers solitary or in pairs. 



Glabrous ; leaves firm, from spatular- or narrow-elliptical 

 to broad-linear, flat ; flower-stalks very short or unde- 

 veloped ; petals elongated, usually six, long-coherent 

 below, green at the summit, otherwise red or yellow ; 

 filaments often black ; anthers narrow ; fruit almost 

 ovate, somewhat succulent, outside black. 



L. Exocarpi. 



Flowers in cymes ... 1248 



1248. Leaves filiform-cylindrical. 



Glabrous or imperfectly invested with very short greyish 

 hairlets ; leaves sometimes fascicularly crowded ; petals 

 / usually five, soon disconnected, reddish inside ; anthers 

 narrow ; fruit globular, succulent, pale-pink outside. 



L. linophyllus. 



Leaves flat ... 1249 



1249. Flowers mostly provided with ultimate stalklets. 



Usually glabrous ; leaves from obovate and lanceolar to 

 broad-linear, often elongated and then unilaterally curved, 

 seldom verging into a cordate form ; petals usually five, 

 elongated, soon disconnected ; fruit brownish-green, quite 

 viscid, distinctly contracted at the summit. 



L. pendulus. 



