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denticulated; flowers on long stalklets ; calyx promi- 

 nently angular ; corolla usually upwards blue, at the 

 orifice beset with minute white hairlets ; fruit almost 

 ellipsoid, enclosed, two-valved. IVL gracilis. 



Prostrate ... 1716 



1716. Glabrous. 



Leaves quite small, somewhat succulent, from orbicular- to 

 elliptical-ovate, sessile, entire ; flowers on short stalklets, 

 axillary, solitary ; angles of the calyx blunt ; corolla 

 upwards lilac- or violet-colored, at the orifice yellow and 

 dotted and there beset with minute hairlets ; fruit almost 

 globular, enclosed, tardily two-valved. Hfl[. repens. 



Beset with minute hairlets. 



Leaves very small, from narrow- to linear-elliptical, sessile, 

 entire; flowers small, on rather long stalklets; corolla 

 upwards bluish, its tube semiexserted and remarkably 

 slender, the orifice yellowish ; fruit almost ellipsoid, 

 two-valved. M, prostratus. 



STEIKODIA. 



1717. Placentaries connate, interposed to the inflexed 



margins of the fruit-valves. 



Erect perennial desert-plant ; leaves oftener simply opposite 

 than ternately whorled, never large, from lanceolar to 

 broad-linear, entire or somewhat denticulated ; calyx 

 divided to near the base into narrow almost equal seg- 

 ments ; flowers solitary, supported by short and narrow 

 bracteoles ; corolla upwards bluish, its tube rather 

 slender j fruit almost ovate-ellipsoid, four-valved. 



S. Morgania. 



GRATXOX.A. 



1718. Flowers on elongated stalklets. 



Usually erect, beset with short glandule-bearing hairlets ; 

 leaves from almost elliptic- to narrow-lanceolar, sessile, 

 somewhat denticulated or some entire ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary, supported by narrow bracteoles ; corolla upwards 

 pale-pink ; staminodia absent ; fruit ovate-globular, four- 

 valved. G. pedunculata. 



Flowers almost sessile ... ... .- ... 1719 



