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1280. Flowers in very short racemes. 



Erect or diffuse; leaves from oval to linear-elliptical, 

 recurved at the margins, underneath beset with an almost 

 velvety vestiture ; lower portion of corolla deep-red or 

 orange-colored, upper gradually yellowish ; style only 

 slightly longer than the corolla ; ovulary sessile, as well 

 as the style beset with short hairlets ; stigma almost 

 lateral ; fruit nearly ellipsoid. Never alpine. 



(G. Dallachiana. ) G. alpina. 



Flowers almost umbellate. 



Never tall ; leaves from linear- to elliptic-lanceolar, recurved 

 at the margin, beneath beset with a silk-like vestiture ; 

 stalklets of flowers at the summit descendingly truncate ; 

 corolla rosy-red except towards the pale summit, often 

 somewhat invested outside ; style conspicuously exserted, 

 not rarely glabrous ; ovulary on a short stipes, beset with 

 a short vestiture ; stigma almost lateral ; fruit oblique- 

 ellipsoid, pointed. G. lavandulacea. 



1281. Racemes elongated. 



Tall ; leaves usually elongate-lanceolar, beneath beset with 

 a silk-like vestiture ; racemes bent downward ; corolla 

 outside invested with almost copper-colored hairlets ; 

 style nearly glabrous ; stigma almost lateral ; ovulary 

 glabrous, on a short stipes ; fruit oblique -ellipsoid. 



G. Victoriae. 



Racemes abbreviated 1282 



1282. Pistil considerably longer than the corolla. 



Usually somewhat diffuse ; leaves very firm, from narrow- 

 lanceolar to broad-linear, beneath beset with a silk-like 

 vestiture ; corolla bright-red, outside invested with 

 shining appressed hairlets ; style and ovulary glabrous, 

 the latter on a conspicuous stipes ; stigma almost lateral ; 

 fruit oblique-ellipsoid. G. oleoides. 



Pistil slightly longer than the corolla. 



Erect ; leaves mostly from elliptic to ovate, beset with soft 

 hairlets beneath, the secondary venules rather prominent ; 

 corolla dull-red, outside laxly invested ; ovulary glabrous, 

 on a short stipes ; fruit oblique- ellipsoid. 



G. Miqueliana. 



