Victorian Plants. 287 



SANTAX.T7BI. 



1306. Tube of the calyx free in its upper part. 



' Leaves from narrow- to lanceolar-elliptical, hardly pointed, 

 recurved at the margin, dark -green above, paler beneath ; 

 flowers few in each cyme ; fruit comparatively small, 

 bluish-black outside. S. obtusifolinm. 



Tube of the calyx entirely adnate ... 1307 



1307. Inner hard part of the fruit (endocarp) deeply 



wrinkled and grooved. 



Leaves generally narrow-lanceolar, flat, greyish-green, 

 curved-pointed ; flowers several in each cyme ; fruit 

 comparatively large, outside succulent and bright-red. 



"Quandang." S. acumiiiatum. 



Inner hard part of the fruit slightly wrinkled and 

 grooved. 



Leaves from linear- to narrow-lanceolar, flat, greyish -green, 

 curved-pointed, occasionally ternate ; flowers several in 

 each cyme ; fruit comparatively large, outside almost 

 dry and brownish-red. S. persicarium. 



THESIUM. 



1308. Racemes spike-like. 



Glabrous, slender and weak plant ; leaves, except some of 

 the lower, almost linear, slightly decurrent ; racemes 

 lax ; flowers supported by short bracteoles and a narrow 

 somewhat adnate bract ; tube of the corolla about as long 

 as the lobes ; fruit from ovate to almost globular. 



T. Australe. 



OBXPHACOIKERXA. 



1309. Leaves entirely absent. 



Branchlets rigid, without any prominent angles, subtle- 

 streaked; flowers sessile, the staminate clustered; corolla- 

 lobes yellow inside, oftener four than five; stigma 

 bilobed ; fruit nearly ovate, greenish outside. 



O. acerba. 



