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EITPHRASIA. 



1712. Perennial. 



Somewhat beset with short hairlets ; leaves firm, sessile, 

 deeply serrated or short-indented at least towards the 

 summit ; flowers relatively large, several or many in each 

 spike, supported by floral leaves ; corolla upwards violet 

 or lilac or white, but the ample orifice often yellowish ; 

 anthers black, often amply beset with minute white 

 hairlets, the cells downwards minutely and equally 

 appendicular-pointed ; fruit somewhat exserted, almost 

 ellipsoid, two-valved, many-seeded. E. Brownii. 



Annual ..................... 1713 



1713. Corolla upwards yellow. 



Sometimes biennial ; copiously beset with short glandule- 

 bearing hairlets ; leaves sessile, often incised, the lobes 

 rather acute ; flowers relatively large, several or many in 

 each spike, supported by floral leaves ; corolla-lobes 

 rather short in proportion to the tube ; anthers somewhat 

 beset with minute hairlets, the cells downwards minutely 

 and equally appendicular-pointed ; fruit about as long as 

 the calyx, almost ellipsoid, two-valved, many-seeded. 



E. scabra. 

 Corolla upwards white. 



Dwarf but erect, beset with short glandule-bearing hairlets; 

 leaves sessile, incised or pinnatifid, the lobes narrow, 

 blunt ; spikes few-flowered ; lobes of the calyx obtuse ; 

 corolla-lobes streaked with dark-purplish lines ; orifice 

 yellowish ; anthers scantily beset with minute hairlets, 

 the cells downwards minutely and equally appendicular- 

 pointed ; fruit orbicular -ovate, enclosed, two-valved, 

 much compressed, few-seeded. E. antarctic a. 



BXAZUS. 



1714. Leaves from obovate to cuneate-elliptical. 



Dwarf but perennial ; leaves mostly basal, irregularly 

 denticulated, rarely quite entire ; flowers several or few 

 in each raceme or occasionally reduced to two or one; 

 stalklets rather long, soon recurved; bracts minute or 

 undeveloped ; corolla upwards almost violet-colored ; 

 fruit enclosed, two-valved. Bd. pumilio. 



1715. Erect. 



Glabrous, never tall ; leaves small, from lanceolar- to 

 linear-elliptical, sessile, entire or occasionally scantily 



