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Involucral bracts shorter than the fruit-supporting 

 bracts. 



Finally tall ; leaves rigid, nearly all doubly or triply 

 dissected, narrowed into a long stalk, soon glabrous, 

 their segments and lobes comparatively narrow, spreading, 

 pungent ; stalk of inflorescence quite short ; corolla 

 yellow, almost glabrous, its tube very slender ; summit 

 of style dilated and from the pointed stigma by 

 constriction somewhat separated. I. aiienionifolius. 



ADENANTHOS. 



1253. Branches prostrate. 



Much beset with hairlets ; leaves crowded, rather small 

 and flaccid, mostly appressed, their segments from three 

 to seven, linear-filiform, erect, glandule-bearing at the 

 apex ; flowers terminal ; corolla elongated ; stigma 

 slender. A. terminalis. 



FERSOONIA. 



1254. Leaves elongated ... ... ... ... ... 1255 



Leaves abbreviated ... ... ... ... ... 1259 



1255. Leaves narrow. 



Tall, finally arborescent ; stem-bark thinly lamellar ; leaves 

 elongate-linear, flat, soon almost glabrous ; flowers soli- 

 tary ; corolla outside beset with minute hairlets ; fruit 

 globular-ovate, greenish outside ; cotyledons four to six. 



F. linearis. 



Leaves broadish ... 1256 



1256. Corolla nearly or quite glabrous. 



Finally arborescent ; stem-bark thinly lamellar ; leaves 

 almost vertical, generally elliptic-lanceolar, somewhat 

 inequilateral and gently curved, flat, soon glabrous, 

 their venules prominent ; flowers often infra- terminally 

 approximated and unsupported by floral leaves ; stalklets 

 conspicuous. F. salicina. 



Corolla invested with minute hairlets outside ... 1257 



