364 . Key to the System of 



XiirSXlKACHXA. 



1597. Flowers in racemes, with yellow corolla. 



Erect, tall ; leaves scattered or ternately approximated, 

 from elongate- to narrow-lanceolar, somewhat trans- 

 parently dotted ; racemes simple or compound ; flowers 

 'rather large ; lobes of the calyx margined ; stamens 

 slightly connected at the base ; style thin, deciduous ; 

 fruit globular. L. salicifolia. 



ANAGALLZS. 



1598. Flowers minute, with whitish four-lobed corolla. 



Annual, very small ; leaves scattered, mostly lanceolar- 

 ovate ; flowers axillary, solitary, almost sessile ; stamens 

 four ; fruit globular. (Possibly immigrated.) 



A. Centunculus. 



ITCYRSINE. 



1599. Leaves large, from elliptic- to lanceolar-obovate. 



Arborescent, finally tall-arboreous ; leaves occasionally some- 

 what denticulated ; flowers on conspicuous stalklets, only- 

 some fruit-bearing ; corolla greenish, its segments con- 

 tiguous at the margin before expansion; anthers almost 

 sessile ; fruit quite small, globular. Figure 99. 



Iff. variabilis. 



EPACRIDEAE. 

 BRACHYXiOBXA. 



1600. Sepals and corolla reddish. 



Rather dwarf ; leaves small, almost flat, from lanceolar- to 

 broad-linear, pointed, minutely denticulated ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, nearly sessile ; sepals blunt,, rather 

 transparent ; corolla-tube enclosed ; lobes obtuse, inside 

 somewhat beset with hairlets ; fruit globular. 



B. ericoides. 



Sepals pale; corolla whitish ... ... ...... 1601 



1601. Leaves almost blunt. 



Erect ; leaves small, from oval- to lanceolar-elliptical, 

 almost flat ; flowers solitary, axillary or lateral ; sepals 

 minute ; corolla-lobes acute, only slightly overlapping, 

 inside hardly or scantily beset with hairlets ; fruit small, 

 globular. B. daphnoides. 



