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flowers small, in cymes, provided with a very thin vesti- 

 ture ; corolla yellowish inside, its lobes only at the base 

 beset with hairlets ; anthers exserted, coherent ; f nutlets 

 very slender, longitudinally connate, on the inner side by 

 a single fissure dehiscent, the inflexed edges of their peri- 

 carp inserted on a membranous two-plated dissepiment. 

 Figure 101. L. straminea. 



ASFERIFOLIAE. 



EHRETIA. 



1663. Finally tall-arboreous. 



Sylvan tree, with annually deciduous foliage ; leaves from 

 ovate- to lanceolar-elliptical, pointed, almost or quite 

 glabrous, serrulated ; flowers small, in panicles ; stalklets 

 very short ; corolla whitish ; stamens much exserted ; 

 fruit small, globular, reddish outside. 



E. acnminata. 



KAZ.GANZA. 



1664. Leaves rather thin, indented towards the summit. 



Somewhat sticky, often bearing scattered rigid appressed 

 hairlets and also a thin glandular vestiture ; leaves from 

 obovate- to linear-cuiieate, somewhat conduplicated, wavy 

 or crisped at the margin, occasionally truncated ; flowers 

 in cymous corymbs, sometimes only three or two together ; 

 corolla deep-blue, its lobes generally acute ; fruit wrinkled. 



H. cyanea. 



Leaves thick, entire. 



Desert-plant, rather sticky ; leaves from elliptic- to narrow- 

 lanceolar, recurved at the margin, beset beneath with 

 a thin whitish velvet-like vestiture ; flowers in small 

 corymbs ; corolla deep -blue ; anthers viscid, outward 

 dark and glabrous ; fruit ovate-ellipsoid'. Figure 106. 



H. lavandulacea. 



BOCHEX.XA. 



1665. Calyx usually cleft into more than five segments. 



Annual desert-plant, prostrate or ascending, beset with 

 rigid hairlets ; leaves linear, entire ; flowers mostly 

 extra-axillary, arranged in leafy racemes ; calyx-segments 

 narrow, flexuous ; corolla minute, its lobes white ; stamens 

 often four only ; fruitlets triangular-ovate, pointed. 



R. Maccoya. 



