356 Key to the System of 



Lobes of corolla without any crested membrane along 

 the middle inside. 



Leaves from the nodes of the stem, from cordate- to rehate- 

 orbicular, long-stalked, without any denticulation; flowers 

 solitary or two or three together on long stalklets ; corolla 

 yellow, its tube short, its lobes slightly or hardly fringed 

 along the margin, sparingly beset with tender hairlets 

 inside towards the base ; fruit almost indehiscent ; seeds 

 numerous, biconvex. L. gexninatum. 



ERYTHRAEA. 



1571. Flowers nearly sessile, often forming somewhat uni- 



lateral and cymous spikes. 



Never tall, on exposed coasts often very dwarf; leaves 

 sessile, from oval- to narrow -elliptic ; flowers small, 

 occasionally reduced to three or two or .even one ; corolla 

 rosy-red, much oftener five- than four-lobed ; style undi- 

 vided ; stigma somewhat bilobed ; fruit ellipsoid, enclosed. 

 (E. Australis.) E. spicata. 



SEBAEA. 



1572. Corolla bright-yellow, five-lobed. 



Never tall, always glabrous ; leaves small, sessile, from 

 ova be to cordate-orbicular, sometimes slightly pointed ; 

 cyme simple or compound, the middle stalklets abbrevi- 

 ated, the others elongated ; segments of calyx five, acute, 

 the carinular venule of each prominent ; lobes of the 

 corolla pointed ; stamens high-inserted on the corolla ; 

 fruit ellipsoid-ovate. S. OVata. 



Corolla yellowish-white, four-lobed. 



Never tall, always glabrous, restricted to brackish soil ; 

 leaves small, sessile, mostly ovate or the lower roundish, 

 somewhat succulent, their venules inconspicuous ; cyme 

 simple ; none of the stalklets elongated ; segments of 

 calyx four, obtuse, the carinular venule of each slightly 

 prominent ; lobes of the corolla blunt ; stamens high- 

 inserted on the corolla ; fruit ovate-ellipsoid. Figure 96. 



S. albidiflora. 



GENTXANA. 



1573. Corolla with appendages between its lobes. 



Very dwarf, annual, glabrous ; leaves quite small, from 

 almost orbicular to ovate, slightly pointed ; flowers very 

 small, generally terminal and solitary, nearly sessile ; 



