Victorian Plants. 280 



RUB X ACE A E. 

 BXORXNDA. 



1314. Climbing or twining. 



Glabrous ; leaves rather large, from lanceolar to almost 

 ovate ; headlets in pairs, on short stalks, with about a 

 dozen or less seldom more flowers ; calyx lobeless ; corolla 

 rather small, pale yellow-brownish, its tube slender ; ripe 

 fruit-masses reddish outside. M. jasminoides. 



OPXSRCUX.ARXA. 



1315. Fruit-masses on erect stalks. 



Erect or diffuse, beset with short rigid hairlets ; leaves 

 rather small, from linear- to elliptic-lanceolar ; compound 

 headlets of flowers generally on long stalks ; lobes of the 

 calyx narrow, pointed, persistent ; stamens four ; seeds 

 obtusangular. O. scabrida. 



Fruit-masses on recurved stalks ... ... ... 1316 



1316. Leaves usually twice or three times longer than broad 1317 

 Leaves usually several times longer than broad ... 1318 



1317. Seeds transversely wrinkled. 



Erect or diffuse, much beset with hairlets ; leaves rather 

 small, from lanceolar to ovate ; stalk of inflorescence 

 short ; headlets ten or less in each inflorescence, small, 

 three- to five-flowered ; corolla generally five-cleft ; 

 stamens usually one or two ; seeds without any prominent 

 longitudinal lines. O. hispida. 



Seeds without transverse wrinkles. 



Erect or diffuse, not seldom almost glabrous ; leaves from 

 lanceolar- to rhomboidal-ovate, on very short stalks ; 

 compound headlets also short-stalked ; calyx-lobes 

 generally three, semilanceolar ; stamens three to four, 

 much exserted ; seeds furrowed along the inner side. 



O. ovata. 



1318. Stamens three to five. 



Erect or diffuse, somewhat tall, not seldom beset with short 

 hairlets ; leaves rather large, from broad- to narrow-lan- 

 ceolar, almost membranous ; stalk of inflorescence short ; 

 headlets twenty or variously less in each inflorescence, 

 from two- to six-flowered ; lobes of the calyx acute ; 

 corolla three- to five-lobed ; seeds conspicuously wrinkled, 

 prominently two-lined. O. aspera. 



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