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1283. Corolla quite yellow inside. 



Leaves from narrow-elliptical to oval, recurved at the 

 margin, beset underneath with a velvety vestiture ; 

 racemes moderately short ; corolla brown-velvety in- 

 vested outside ; ovulary sessile, as well as the style 

 densely beset with short hairlets ; style only slightly 

 exserted; stigma almost lateral; fruit ellipsoid -ovate. 



G. iloribunda. 



Corolla pale inside ... 1284 



1284. Leaves recurved at the margin. 



Alpine shrub ; leaves rather small, from narrow- to elliptic- 

 lanceolar, pungent, beset underneath with silk-like vesti- 

 ture ; flowers very small, in almost umbel-like racemes ; 

 corolla beset with grey shining hairlets outside ; ovulary 

 glabrous ; stigma almost lateral ; fruit nearly ellipsoid. 



G. Australis. 



Leaves closely repressed at the margin ... ... 1285 



1285. Pistil considerably longer than the corolla. 



Leaves crowded, linear, rigid, pungent-pointed ; corolla 

 very small, beset outside with silk-like grey vestiture ; 

 ovulary glabrous, on a short stipes ; stigma almost lateral. 



G. confertifolia. 



Pistil hardly longer than the corolla. 



Leaves quite linear, slightly pointed ; flowers very small, in 

 umbel-like racemes; corolla beset with silk -like grey 

 vestiture outside ; ovulary glabrous ; stigma almost 

 lateral ; fruit nearly ellipsoid. G. parviflora. 



KAK.EA. 



1286. Stigma depressed, almost lateral ... 1287 



Stigma conical, almost or quite terminal ... ... 1294 



1287. Leaves dissimilar in form. 



Upper leaves mainly filiform, lower often from channelled- 

 linear to narrow-lanceolar ; flowers small, in sessile 

 axillary umbels ; petals whitish, glabrous ; fruit com- 

 paratively small and particularly narrow, somewhat 

 ellipsoid, rather compressed, with two very short infra- 

 terminal points, otherwise blunt. H. microcarpa. 



Leaves all similar in form ... 1288 



