Victorian Plants. 277 



Leaves from elliptical- to ovate-lanceolar. 



Shrub, hardly tall ; leaves rather rigid, spreading, often 

 acute, finally glabrous ; flowers almost pendent ; corolla- 

 lobes very distinctly pointed ; cotyledons four to six. 



F. myrtilloides. 



1262. Corolla glabrous. 



A shrubby plant, diffuse or somewhat prostrate ; leaves 

 quite small, from lanceolar-elliptical to orbicular, soon 

 glabrous ; flowers on conspicuous stalklets ; fruit ellipsoid- 

 ovate. P. oxycoccoides. 



Corolla invested with hairlets outside ... ... 1263 



1263. Leaves very pale beneath. 



A shrub, hardly tall ; leaves from lanceolar- to obovate- 

 elliptical, blunt, generally retaining some vestiture for a 

 long while beneath ; flowers solitary, erect ; corolla-lobes 

 slightly pointed. P. revoluta. 



Leaves hardly paler beneath. 



Shrub, rather tall, much beset with soft spreading and often 

 brownish hairlets ; leaves from obovate- and spatular- to 

 narrow-lanceolar, much narrowed towards the base, irre- v 

 spective of the vestiture somewhat rough on both sides ; 

 flowers almost sessile, generally solitary, occasionally a 

 few together without floral leaves ; cotyledons five. 



P. rigida. 



TEX.OFEA. 



1264. Involucral bracts glabrous. 



Finally quite arborescent ; branchlets also glabrous ; leaves 

 large, firm, mostly obovate-lanceolar, entire, their ultimate 

 venules subtle ; corolla crimson, slit unilaterally ; glan- 

 dule at the upper end of the stalklets rather conspicuous. 

 "Gippsland-Waratah." Figure 72. T. oreades. 



X.OXKATXA. 



1265. Finally high-arborescent. 



Leaves mostly from lanceolar and broad-elliptical to almost 

 ovate, coarsely serrated, beneath densely beset with 

 appressed and shining hairlets ; their ultimate venules 

 faint ; petals provided with much outside vestiture ; pistil 

 glabrous. L. Fraseri. 



Shrubby only 1266 



