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Stems slender, hardly succulent ... ... ... .1531 



1531. Fruits much bulging on the upper side. 



Annual, glabrous, hardly branched ; leaves linear, the 

 lower broader and denticulated ; corolla blue inside, 

 its upper lobes somewhat beset w\th minute hairlets, 

 pointed; lower lobes rather acute; seeds very minute, 

 almost dust-like. L. Browniana. 



Fruits slightly bulging. on the upper side. 



Often rather tall ; leaves mostly narrow and indented, the 

 lower not rarely lanceolar ; flowers rather large ; corolla 

 blue, rarely pink inside, its upper lobes somewhat beset 

 with minute hairlets ; all lobes acute ; seeds small, ovate- 

 triangular. L. simplicicaulis. 



1532. Flower-stalklets much elongated 1533 



Flower-stalklets much abbreviated ... ... ... 1534 



1533. The two upper lobes of the corolla much narrower 



than the three lower. 



Perennial, lax, glabrous ; leaves often almost membranous, 

 from ovate- to elliptic-lanceolar, irregularly denticulated ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary; stalks very thin, gently re- 

 curved ; corolla purplish or inside whitish ; upper lobes 

 of the corolla very acute ; perfect stamens and pistils in 

 distinct flowers, mostly on separate plants ; fertile fruits 

 obconic-hemiellipsoid ; seeds ovate. Figure 91. 



L. purpurascens. 



All the lobes of the corolla nearly of equal size. 



Creeping, beset with minute hairlets ; leaves small, almost 

 membranous, from ovate- to orbicular-rhomboid ; flowers 

 small, axillary, solitary ; lobes of the corolla above 

 white, beneath pale-violet; perfect stamens and pistils 

 in distinct flowers, mostly on separate plants ; fertile 

 fruit obconic-hemiellipsoid ; seeds ovate. 



L. pedunculata. 



1534. Corolla-lobes turned unilaterally. 



Perennial, rather dwarf, glabrous ; leaves from lanceolar- 

 to elliptic-ovate, conspicuously denticulated, often some- 

 what crisped ; flowers axillary, solitary ; lobes of the 

 corolla equal, usually whitish on the upper side ; perfect 

 stamens and pistils in distinct flowers, mostly on separate 

 plants ; fertile fruit ovate -globular. L. concolor. 



