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1519. Leaves broad, clasping at the base. 



Comparatively tall, somewhat woody, strong-scented ; 

 leaves mostly from elliptic- to lanceolar-ovate, indented 

 or denticulated, almost glabrous or underneath scantily 

 or seldom densely beset with a thin somewhat cottony 

 vestiture ; headlets of flowers numerous, quite small 

 and particularly slender ; corollas almost half-emerged ; 

 fruits somewhat beset with minute hairlets. 



S. odoratus. 



Leaves narrow, without or with slight basal dilatation 1520 



1520. Perennial, tall. 



Somewhat branched and woody, usually glabrous ; leaves 

 firm, from narrow-lanceolar to broad-linear, entire or 

 some indented or denticulated ; headlets of flowers very 

 small, several together ; corollas nearly half-exserted ; 

 fruits beset with minute hairlets. S. Cunningham!. 



Annual, dwarf. 



Often branchless ; leaves from linear- to narrow-lanceolar, 

 entire or somewhat denticulated or distantly short-lobed ; 

 headlets of flowers quite small, few together ; marginal 

 corollas provided with a rudimentary extremely minute 

 ligular expansion ; fruits beset with a very short vestiture. 



S. brachyglossus. 



CANBOI.X.BACBA&. 



CANDOXiXiEA. 



1521. Perennial ... 1522 



Annual ... .-. ... ... ... ... 1523 



1522. Flowers in spikes. 



Somewhat tall, unbranched, quite erect ; leaves all radical, 

 tufted, rigid, elongate-linear or slightly lanceolar, im- 

 perfectly ciliolar-denticulated ; stem constituting an 

 elongate stalk of the spike, as well as the latter beset 

 with scattered glandule-bearing hairlets ; flowers rather 

 small; corolla from pale- to intense-red; base of each 

 corolla-lobe bearing minute appendages ; fruit turgidly 

 ovate, terminated by the persistent calyx-lobes, two- 

 celled, many-seeded. C. serrulata. 



