Victorian Plants. 377 



CRESSA. 



1654. Stamens much exserted. 



Dwarf, densely beset with greyish mostly appressed hairlets ; 

 leaves firm, usually from ovate to lanceolar ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, but often crowded at and towards the 

 summit of branchlets, almost sessile ; corolla quite small, 

 whitish or somewhat pink ; fruit nearly enclosed, almost 

 globular. C. Cretica. 



DXCHONDRA. 



1655. Stems generally rooting at the nodes. 



Small weak herb, much beset with greyish often appressed 

 vestiture ; leaves usually scattered, on long stalks, from 

 cordate- to renate- orbicular, entire ; flowers very small, 

 solitary, axillary, on conspicuous stalks; corolla yellowish- 

 white, minute ; fruitlets ovate-ellipsoid, rarely two-seeded. 



D. repens. 



SARCOSTSBXaiA. 



1656. Branches robust, pale-green, evenly cylindrical. 



Desert-plant, jointed-ramified, glabrous ; flowers small, in 

 lateral umbel-like fascicles, their stalklets rather short ; 

 corolla pale, . deeply cleft, its segments blunt ; gyno- 

 stemium surrounded by an undivided disk; fruitlets 

 dehiscent by a single longitudinal fissure ; seeds much 

 shorter than their tuft of hairlets. S. Australe. 



TYX.OPHORA. 



1657. Corolla very small, dark-violet, beset with minute 



hairlets inside. 



Sylvan plant ; leaves from broad- to lanceolar-ovate, pointed, 

 almost membranous, always glabrous ; umbels axillary, 

 solitary or two together, on slender stalks ; gynostemium 

 black -purplish outside ; fruitlets much pointed, dehiscent 

 by a single longitudinal fissure. T. barbata. 



1658. Corolla dark-purplish, deeply cleft, conspicuously 

 beset with soft hairlets inside. 



Desert-plant ; leaves linear, rather long, glabrous ; umbels 

 stalked, few-flowered, axillary ; corolla-segments acute ; 

 gynostemium surrounded by a narrow almost undivided 

 disk, terminated by five much pointed appendages ; fruit- 

 lets dehiscent by a single longitudinal fissure ; seeds 

 shorter than their tuft of hairlets. Figure 102. 



D. quinquepartita. 



