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1257. Flowers few or several, crowded into short racemes. 



Shrub, hardly tall; leaves mostly from lanceolar- to 

 elliptical-ovate, flat ; flowers unsupported by floral leaves ; 

 corolla densely invested with very short brownish hair lets 

 outside ; fruit small, ellipsoid-ovate ; cotyledons two. 



P. confertiflora. 



Flowers nearly all dispersed singly between the 

 leaves 1258 



1258. Stalklets of flowers conspicuous. 



Very tall, finally quite arborescent ; leaves mostly elliptic- 

 lanceolar, much elongated, almost flat, beset with subtle 

 hairlets underneath ; flowers rather large, occasionally 

 some floral leaves undeveloped ; corolla-lobes distinctly 

 pointed ; fruit rather large, green-yellowish ; cotyledons 

 three. P. arborea. 



Stalklets of flowers extremely short. 



Shrub, rather tall ; leaves from narrow- to broad-lanceolar, 

 flat, soon or finally glabrous ; venules, except the carinal, 

 much obliterated ; flowers occasionally two from the 

 same axil ; ovulary glabrous ; cotyledons four or five. 



P. laiiceolata. 



1259. Leaves flat or slightly channelled ... 1260 



Leaves marginally recurved ... ... ... ... 1262 



1260. Corolla glabrous. 



Dwarf, almost herbaceous, quite glabrous or very scantily 

 beset with hairlets ; leaves very spreading, broad -linear, 

 simply acute, flat or channelled, slightly carnulent, even 

 the carinular venule concealed ; flowers axillary, solitary ; 

 fruit oblique-ovate ; cotyledons six. Figure 68. 



P. Cliamaepsuce. 



Corolla invested outside with hairlets 1261 



1261. Leaves acicular-linear. 



Shrub, finally tall ; leaves sessile, very spreading, flat or 

 somewhat channelled, pungent-pointed ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary ; corolla occasionally almost glabrous ; fruit 

 ovate -globular; cotyledons four to six. P. juniperiua. 



