278 Key to the System of 



1266. Leaves twice or three times longer than broad. 



Leaves from lanceolar- elliptical to nearly ovate, pungent- 

 serrate, soon almost glabrous, also their ultimate venules 

 above prominent ; petals glabrescent outside ; pistil 

 glabrous. L. ilicifolia. 



Leaves several or many times longer than broad. 



Shrubby or hardly arborescent ; leaves elongated, from 

 linear- to narrow-lanceolar, distantly serrated, soon 

 glabrous ; their ultimate venules faint ; petals often 

 glabrous ; pistil glabrous. L. loiigifolia. 



ORZTBS. 



1267. Leaves elliptical-lanceolar, flat, lobeless. 



Alpine shrub, rather tall ; leaves comparatively small, very 

 firm, glabrous ; spikes mostly terminal and solitary 

 flowers small ; bracts fugacious ; petals whitish, glabrous ; 

 fruit beset with appressed shining hairlets. Figure 69. 



O. lancifolia. 



1268. Seeds surrounded by a broadish flat membrane. 



Leaves long, linear, lobeless or few-lobed, refracted at the 

 margin ; racemes elongated ; flowers small ; corolla out- 

 side densely beset with greyish soft hairlets ; style 

 glabrous ; stigma somewhat lateral ; ovulary on a con- 

 spicuous stipes ; fruit almost globular. 



G. pterosperma. 



Seeds surrounded by a very narrow or somewhat 

 obliterated membrane ... ... ... ... 1269 



1269 Leaves mostly lobed or indented ... ... ... 1270 



Leaves constantly lobeless and also otherwise entire 1276 

 1270. Prostrate. 



Leaves from ovate to elliptical, but often cuneate or even 

 truncate at the base, wavy and prickly denticulated, soon 

 glabrous ; racemes dense ; flowers small ; corolla outside 

 beset with appressed grey shining hairlets ; style glabrous ; 

 stigma almost lateral ; ovulary on a short stipes, invested 

 with silk-like hairlets. G. repeiis. 



Erect or diffuse ., ............. 1271 



