Victorian Plants. 349 



SELLIERA. 



1546. Creeping, glabrous. 



Perennial plant, chiefly maritime ; leaves from ovate- to 

 linear-spatular, entire ; flowers on rather short stalks, 

 solitary or two or three together ; corolla small, rigid ; 

 stigma-cover with only slight or hardly any ciliolation ; 

 fruit small, turgidly ovate ; seeds without any mem- 

 branous margin. S. radicans. 



SCABVOZ.A. 



1547. Quite shrubby 1548 



Almost herbaceous ... .. ... ... 1549 



1548. Thorny-branched. 



A desert-shrub ; spinules sometimes ramified ; leaves 

 generally small, from obovate- to linear-elliptical, entire, 

 often clustered ; flowers small, on short stalks, solitary 

 or two or few together ; corolla yellowish inside, its lobes 

 somewhat fringed ; fruit succulent. S. spine SC ens. 



Thornless. 



A coast- shrub, viscid, glabrous ; leaves large, very firm, 

 flat, from orbicular to spatular-obovate, occasionally 

 verging into a lanceolar form, closely denticulated except 

 towards the base ; flowers in spikes ; floral leaves reduced 

 to bracts ; corolla blue inside, glabrous outside, its ex- 

 panding membranes narrow ; ciliolation of the stigma- 

 cover faint ; fruit rather small, dry. S. crassifolia. 



1549. Prostrate 1550 



Erect 1552 



1550. Leaves quite entire. 



A robust coast-plant, widely spreading, beset with appressed 

 shining hairlets ; leaves often very large, rather carnu- 

 lent, mostly from obovate to almost spatular-elliptical 

 or the upper narrower ; flowers in terminal spikes ; corolla 

 blue or outside purplish, bearing inside towards the base 

 many short very narrow tipped processes ; fruit compara- 

 tively large, succulent, purplish outside. 



S. suaveoleiis. 



Leaves indented ... ... ... 1551 



