398 Key to the System of 



1735. Dwarf, sometimes prostrate. 



Branchlets often glandular-rough ; leaves from narrow- 

 elliptical to cuneate- or broad-linear, usually obtuse, 

 entire or oftener bluntly denticulated, sometimes rather 

 succulent ; flowers solitary or two or three together, on 

 generally long stalklets ; fruit small, nearly globular, 

 three- to four-celled. M. huinile. 



Tall, sometimes arborescent ... ... ... ... 1736 



1736. Leaves denticulated .. 1737 



Leaves quite entire ... ... ... ... ... 1738 



1737. Leaves of thick texture, often succulent. 



Chiefly a coast-species, finally arborescent, occasionally 

 quite a tall tree ; leaves from broad- to narrow-lanceolar, 

 of thick texture and somewhat carnulent, bluntly and 

 rather distantly denticulated ; fruit globular, three- or 

 four-celled, the outer portion succulent, externally 

 purplish-blue. 3VL. insulare. 



Leaves of thin texture, never succulent. 



Never very tall ; branchlets glandular-rough ; leaves from 

 orbicular-ovate to broad -lanceolar, usually rather short, 

 thinly stalked, closely serrulated ; flowers axillary, few 

 or several together ; fruit small, ovate-globular, almost 

 dry, often three-celled. M. viscosum. 



1738. Fruit yellowish outside. 



A desert-species, seldom very tall ; leaves very firm, from 

 lanceolar- to broad-linear, rather short ; flowers compara- 

 tively small, solitary or two together, on conspicuous 

 stalklets ; stamens oftener five than four ; fruit small, 

 gldbular-ovate, two- or three-celled, its outer portion 

 succulent. M. deserti. 



Fruit bluish or purplish outside ... ... ... 1739 



1739. Leaves from elongate- to narrow-lanceolar. 



A desert-species, often tall ; leaves firm, rather long, much 

 pointed ; flowers axillary, two or few together ; fruit 

 ellipsoid -ovate, three- to five-celled, its outer portion 

 succulent. M. Dampieri. 



