Victorian Plants. 283 



1288. Leaves flat 1289 



Leaves filiform 1290 



1289. Corolla glabrous. 



Tall-shrubby ; leaves from narrow- to broad-lanceolar, 

 occasionally verging into an elliptic form, greyish-green, 

 the lateral venules subtle and much concealed ; flowers 

 small, in sessile axillary umbels, fragrant ; petals whitish, 

 glabrous ; fruit very turgid, but much narrowed towards 

 the base, attenuated into the slightly truncated apex ; 

 seeds rather narrow. H. saligna. 



Corolla outside beset with a close vestiture. 



Tall-shrubby or finally even arborescent ; leaves greyish- 

 green, elongate -lanceolar, their lateral venules faint and 

 much concealed ; flowers small, in axillary sessile umbels ; 

 stalklets beset with short hairlets as well as the petals 

 outside ; fruit rather large, oblique-ovate, nearly blunt. 



H. e riant ha, 



1290. Corolla bright-yellow. 



Leaves rather short, compressed-filiform ; flowers minute, 

 . in sessile axillary umbels; petals glabrous; fruit com- 

 paratively large, oblique -ovate, turgid, nearly blunt, often 

 verrucular -rough. H. nodosa. 



Corolla whitish or pale ... ... ... ... 1291 



1291. Flowers in short racemes. 



Finally tall ; branches hardly spreading ; leaves greyish- 

 green, pungently straight-pointed ; flowers small, crowded ; 

 stalk of inflorescence densely beset with short hairlets ; 

 petals yellowish-white, nearly always glabrous ; fruit 

 almost ovate, somewhat compressed towards the summit, 

 slightly enlarged under the acute apex ; membranous 

 appendage of the seeds quite pale. H. leucoptera. 



Flowers in umbel-like clusters ... ... ... 1292 



1292. Terminating membrane of the seeds pale. 



, Finally tall ; leaves light-green, pungently curved -pointed ; 

 umbels axillary, sessile ; petals outside beset with short 

 brownish hairlets ; fruit nearly ovate, somewhat com- 

 pressed towards the summit, slightly enlarged under the 

 acute apex. (H. Pampliniana. ) H. vittata. 



Terminating membrane of the seeds dark ... ... 1293 



