380 Key to the System of 



CYNOGLOSSUBI. 



1666. Leaves from almost orbicular to nearly ovate. 



Perennial forest-plant, flaccid, often elongated and straggling, 

 granular-rough, scantily beset with very rigid hairlets ; 

 leaves rather thin, frequently inequilateral ; flowers small, 

 in leafy racemes or extra-axillarily scattered; stalklets 

 elongated, soon recurved ; corolla-lobes blue or white ; 

 asperities of fruitlets doubly hooked. C. latifolium. 



Leaves from elliptic to narrow-lanceolar ..." ... 1667 



1667. Flowers in leafy racemes. 



Perennial, rather dwarf, erect, slender, much beset with 

 appressed somewhat rigid hairlets ; lower leaves stalked, 

 upper sessile ; stalklets elongated, soon recurved ; flowers 

 intensely fragrant ; corolla very small, its lobes white, 

 its appendages bright-yellow ; asperities of fruitlets 

 doubly hooked. C. suaveolens. 



Flowers in leafless racemes. 



Perennial, rather tall, erect, comparatively robust, much 

 beset with appressed somewhat rigid hairlets ; leaves 

 mostly stalked ; stalklets of flowers abbreviated, the 

 lowest sometimes axillary ; flowers small, scented ; corolla- 

 lobes often blue, occasionally pink or white ; asperities of 

 fruitlets doubly hooked, those at the margin longest. 



C. An st rale. 



XiAFFTJXiA. 



1668. Fruitlets at the margin beset with spinular processes, 



at the back impressed -hollowed and somewhat 

 granular-rough. 



Annual, dwarf, erect or ascending, somewhat beset with 

 generally appressed hairlets ; leaves from ovate- to linear- 

 elliptical ; flowers in leafy almost one-sided racemes, very 

 small, on short stalklets ; lobes of the corolla usually blue ; 

 margin of fruitlets prominent : spinular asperities rather 

 few, somewhat barbed. L. concava. 



ERITRICHUItt. 



1669. Lower leaves generally opposite. 



Annual, dwarf, erect or ascending, somewhat beset with 

 generally appressed yellowish or greyish hairlets ; leaves 

 quite small, from narrow-elliptical to broadish-linear, the 

 upper scattered ; flowers in one-sided spike-like foliaceous- 

 bracteated racemes ; corolla minute, its lobes white ; 

 fruitlets rather acute, reticular- and wrinkled-rough. 



E. Australasicum. 



