Victorian Plants. 



Leaves from broad- to ovate-lanceolar. 



A sylvan species, finally very tall; leaves rather long, 

 usually of rather thin texture ; flowers axillary, two or 

 few or several together ; fruit mostly ovate-globular, 

 often four-celled, its outer portion succulent. 



M. tenuifolium. 



1740. Fruit gradually pointed. 



A desert-species, finally arborescent, quite sticky, somewhat 

 glandular-rough ; leaves firm, from elongate- to linear- 

 lanceolar, towards the summit distantly serrulated ; 

 flowers few or several together, on rather conspicuous 

 stalklets ; fruit small, dry, almost ovate, narrow-edged. 



M. platycarpum. 

 Fruit truncate-blunt. 



Seldom very tall, usually quite sticky ; somewhat glandular- 

 rough ; leaves from narrow-lanceolar to broad- or elongate- 

 linear, closely serrulated in their whole length, often of 

 thin texture, sometimes recurved at the margin ; flowers 

 few or several together, occasionally as many as ten from 

 one axil, their stalklets short ; fruit small, dry, quadrate- 

 or rhomboid-orbicluar, their narrow edge prominent. 



M. floribundum. 



EREXIXOFHXX.A. 



1741. Segments of the calyx usually four. 



A desert-species ; branchlets rigid, spinescent ; leaves small, 

 firm, from elliptic- to cuneate-linear, entire, generally 

 glabrous ; flowers rather small, solitary or seldom two 

 together, sessile; segments of the calyx lanceolar, pointed; 

 corolla bluish or exceptionally white and almost undotted, 

 outside invested with minute branched hairlets, its lobes 



iparatively short, the lowest slightly longer than broad, 

 eked with darker dots and towards the base densely 



corny 



marl 



invested with hairlets ; stamens nearly enclosed ; fruit 



dry, gradually much pointed. . divaricata. 



Segments of the calyx always five ... ... ... 1742 



1742. Corolla white 1743 



Corolla reddish or bluish ... ... ... ... 1745 



1743. Segments of the calyx membranous in texture, obtuse. 



A tall desert-species, finally quite arborescent, often exten- 

 sively beset with minute greyish or slightly yellowish 

 hairlets ; branchlets lax ; leaves opposite or partly 



