Victorian Plants. 371 



pointed, recurved at the margin, greyish beneath; flowers 

 axillary, often solitary, short - stalked ; corolla - lobes 

 glabrous or somewhat beset with short hairlets inside ; 

 fruit depressed-globular, red outside. S. Oxycedrus, 



Flowers in clusters or spikes or racemes ... ... 1631 



1631. Finally arborescent. 



Chiefly maritime ; leaves rather large, from ovate- to linear- 

 elliptical, almost flat, greyish or whitish underneath ; 

 flowers minute, in short racemes or occasionally only two 

 together or even solitary ; perfect staminate and perfect 

 pistillate flowers often on distinct plants ; corolla white ; 

 ovule only one ; fruit minute, ovate-ellipsoid, oiitside red 

 or orange-colored. S. elliptica. 



Low-shrubby ... ... 1632 



1632. Fruit minute, one-celled. 



Leaves small, from lanceolar- to elliptic-linear, pointed, 

 somewhat or quite recurved along the margin, greyish 

 or whitish underneath ; flowers minute, few in each 

 small axillary spike or cluster or occasionally only two 

 together or even solitary ; corolla white ; ovule only 

 one; fruit minute. & scoparia. 



Fruit of rather conspicuous size, five-celled ... ... 1633 



1633. Leaves almost blunt. 



Alpine ; leaves small, from narrow- to linear-elliptical, 

 somewhat recurved along the margin, beneath greyish ; 

 flowers quite small, in short mostly terminal spikes ; 

 corolla white, its lobes glabrous or sometimes inside beset 

 with hairlets ; stamens and the pistil often perfected only 

 in distinct flowers ; fruit globular, outside bright-red. 

 . S. montana. 



Leaves pungent-pointed. 



Leaves small, spreading, from broad- to narrow-linear ; 

 flowers rather small, in short racemes or occasionally 

 only two together ; corolla white or slightly reddish, 

 its tube cylindrical, much, longer than the lobes, the 

 latter seldom beset with hairlets inside ; fruit depressed - 

 globular, succulent, outside -pale-yellowish. 



S. strigosa. 



